UN urges people to eat insects to fight world hunger

Eating more insects could help fight world hunger, according to a new UN report.

The report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation says that eating insects could help boost nutrition and reduce pollution.

It notes than over 2 billion people worldwide already supplement their diet with insects.

However it admits that “consumer disgust” remains a large barrier in many Western countries.

I think this report has made a couple of glaring oversights, starting with the fact that in the Western world we are fortunate to have low levels of food shortage and don’t need to top up on grasshoppers or caterpillars.

I also fail to see how, if we were to start eating bugs, people in other parts of the world would suddenly magically have enough food to eat, if anything if we starting eating bugs as well they’ll have even less.

I hope the UN will show their support to this report by serving up a giant bug buffet at their next get together, I can see that going down a storm, not.