The Human Use of Insects as Food and as Animal Feed

Abstract

Edible insects are a food resource that continues to be tapped extensively by populations in the rural Third World, while continuing to be ignored by food and agricultural scientists. The unfounded Western aversion to insects as food should no longer stand in the way of attempts, through advocacy, research, and extension, to increase the contribution that insects can make to human nutrition. CORS: see cricket Acheta domesticus feeding on chicken manure and agricultural wastes