We farm fish and we certainly farm fruits and vegetables.
Insects are full of protein and while Americans don't eat them,
many other cultures do, so why not farm them? In the future, we
may do just that (unless they get too powerful--in which case
we'll probably shoot them down and eat the roadkill). Raising
cows, pigs and sheep uses up 2/3 of the world's farmland and
produces 20% of all the greenhouse gases that are changing our
climate. The UN wants us to eat less meat, so a natural
alternative is insects. global warming. As a result, the United
Nations and senior figures want to reduce the amount of meat we
eat and the search is on for alternatives. In the August 1st
edition of the Guardian, Damian Carrington quotes entomologist
Arnold van Huis as saying, "There is a meat crisis. The world
population will grow from 6 billion now to 9 billion by 2050 and
we know people are consuming more meat. If we continue like this
we will need another Earth." On the PopSci website, Paul Adams
writes: "Tons of edible, su