Marcel Dicke: Why not eat insects?
Summary:
Why Not Eating Insects?
In the video I watched, there is a presentation made by Marcel Dicke. In that video, he discussed one interesting issue: WHY NOT EATING INSECTS? First, he states that insects are the most dominant group in our world. There are 6 millions species of insects all over the world compare to about 300 species of mammals. Next, insects are also silent contributors of our economy. In 2006, insects add to the economy 57 billions US dollars directly or indirectly. Second, he mentions about the roles of insects in our lives such as removing dung, pollinating crops, controlling pests and being a source of food for other animals.Surprisingly, everyone in the world have eaten insects without knowing, for damaged vegetable or fruits by insects you eat, insects go with them to your stomach. In addition, there are some natural dye to dye food that is made from insects. Marcel Dicke also points out 4 reasons that we should enjoy insects. First, they are good for our health since insects do not have dangerous recombination viruses to humans. Second, when at the present, 80 % of agriculture land is already used for breeding cattle; therefore, breeding insects is a very efficient way to deal with future limited land problem.Third, breeding insects is good for environment, for the waste from insects is far lower than regular cattles. Finally, insects contain good food values that equals to our current food.
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Response:
In my opinion, I think that this video is really great. In fact, before watching it, I'm not really interested in this issue. There was a time when I watch a TV shows about eating insects- new food trends. However, at that times I think people may only eat it if they are fed up with pork, beef or chicken and want to try something new. Nevertheless, this video amazed me that insects can be a good source of food for our late generation because it has many good advantages : not require large space to breed, good nutritive quality, friendly to environment and not contain dangerous viruses to human. And I think people do not like it because of our perception, we think insects are dirty, gross or creepy-looking so we don't eat it. I wonder if human in the past had eaten insects instead of crabs or shrimps, today we would have thought that crabs and shrimps are terrible to eat. Shrimps and insects in some ways look really alike; they all have six legs!! So Why Not Eating Insects?
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