Daily: BUZZ FEED – Why eating insects will save the world

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 8 September 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Chances are you haven’t willingly eaten an insect. But two billion people are already bugging out on this sustainable source of protein. Could insects offer the perfect solution for our post-Brexit and pandemic supply chain problems? Entomologist Brian Fisher and Imperial College London’s Dr. Tilly Collins join Ros Taylor to chew on how we can change perceptions about insects in the West, how health clinics are battling for cricket powder, and why Welsh schools are already using mealworm mince in their insect bolognaise….plus Ros and Tilly snack on crickets live in the studio. “With big animals, we only eat a bit of them. With insects, you eat the whole thing…” – Tilly Collins “Insects are the glue that holds the world together… If we could introduce the Bacon Bug, everyone would love it.” – Brian Fisher “Do you eat prawns? Why not eat a woodlouse?” – Tilly Collins “Eating sushi was a huge cultural change. But now it's a popular component of easy, fast food.” – Tilly Collins Presented by Ros Taylor. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jelena Sofronijevic and Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved
0:05.5	photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.
0:11.8	Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?
0:13.0	I loved going to college.
0:14.0	It's good you can retrain and do something.
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0:55.3	look after theirs with dental life. Pick you're listening in Europe or the US, chances are you haven't
1:14.6	willingly eaten an insect, but 2 billion of the words population do, and it's a lot
1:19.7	more sustainable and arguably kinder than farming animals.
1:23.4	But can we overcome our revulsion at the thought of biting into a bug?
1:30.1	With me is Brian Fisher, often known as the ant guy because of his expertise in ants, an African ants in particular.
1:37.0	He's an entomologist and heads the Fisher Lab at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. Brian, welcome to the bunker. Great to be here.
1:45.2	You've been studying insects for some years, but in 2016 you decided to take a more
1:49.7	hands-on approach to the loss of habitats and malnutrition and particular in Madagascar. on the same reason maybe you would go. It's on your bucket list because of the wild animals
2:05.3	you can see there. Everything is unique in Madagascar in part because of this long isolation
2:11.0	that the country broke away from Africa about 120 million years ago
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