224: Does Ethical, Eco-Friendly Protein Exist?
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2016
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
By 2050, we'll have 9 billion people on the planet, and we cannot feed them with chicken, pigs, cows, wheat, soy, and corn. The food system that got us to where we are today is now destroying our planet and threatens our health; so we need to seek out nutritious, ethical and sustainable food that scales globally.
Enter: edible insects.
A crick can be as much as 20x's more efficient in terms of water, land, and resources than its equivalent in beef protein, and there are thousands of other insects that are edible to choose from. At scale, insects are cheap, easy-to-grow, bio-diverse, and whether convenient or not, they are the future of food.
On this week's Yoga Talk Show, Lucas Rockwood talks with insect food bar manufactures to get a deeper understanding of the next phase of mass food production.
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ABOUT BÚI & STEFAN
Búi Bjarmar Aðalsteinsson studied psychology at the University of Iceland, product design (BA) at the Iceland Academy of Arts and the National Art Academy in Oslo (MA, Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo). Bui has mostly specialized in design related food production. His design is characterized by the breakup of traditional processing methods with the aim of creating new knowledge and increasing sustainability. Stefan Atli Thoroddsen joined Bui in the founding of a company specialized in insect production. His background is in business and marketing.
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- UN Report on Edible Insects
- Little Herds
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| 1:10.0 | So when I started on this project, working on this project, |
| 1:13.8 | we came to my house, put a plate on the table and said, |
| 1:18.2 | eat this. |
| 1:19.1 | What is this? |
| 1:21.6 | He's just eat it. And these were like the first prototypes of |
| 1:26.6 | edible insects made from these black soldier fly larvas. |
| 1:30.8 | On this week's Yoko Talk show, we are going to be returning to one of my favorite themes, which is Edible Insects. |
| 1:37.9 | And we've done a number of shows over the past few years in and around Edible Insects, and a lot has changed. Food manufacturing |
| 1:45.8 | companies have come and gone but mostly they have come. The market has |
| 1:50.0 | expanded exponentially. Cricket protein tends to be the default, but there are more and more cricket food products |
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