Why aren’t we eating more insects?

BBC Inside Science

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Technology, Science

4.5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

We try some cricket tacos and ask what role insects might play in our future diets, in a special programme with a live audience at Green Man Festival in the Bannau Brycheiniog National Park in Wales.

Our panellists: Peter Smithers, an entomologist and fellow of the Royal Entomological Society Aaron Thomas, co-founder of Yum Bug, which makes meat out of crickets Dr Emily Porter, a dietician and gut health specialist for the NHS and The Gut Health Clinic

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Presenter: Marnie Chesterton Producer: Gerry Holt Editor: Martin Smith Sound manager: Mike Cox Production Co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth

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0:44.0	Hello and welcome to BBC Inside Science.
0:50.0	Hello.
0:52.0	Oh, you're a whoopy audience. I love you already.
0:57.0	This week we're coming to you from the Green Man Festival in almost sunny South Wales.
1:02.0	I also have some amazing guests. in almost sunny South Wales.
1:02.6	I also have some amazing guests and a talking point,
1:07.0	which is, could insects be the future of food?
1:11.0	So, give me a cheer if you would eat insects. And give me a cheer if you'd rather
1:18.6	go vegan. Okay, so we're pretty much 50-50. So this idea, it's not new. Many people around the world are already eating insects,
1:29.0	but in recent years there's been a bit of a buzz about insects as a green alternative to meet.
1:36.5	So what's stopping us here in the UK?
1:39.4	We're going to hear why we might put them on the menu, whether they're good for our health and crucially do they
1:45.4	actually taste good?
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