Insects will be the future food supply?

Recently, Professor Arnold van Huis, an expert of the World Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and an entomologist at Wageningen University, the Netherlands, has proposed that humans Should eat insects instead of meat to solve the problem of food in the future.

According to Professor Arnold van Huis, the current world population is constantly increasing, so Europe must take concrete actions to solve the future food problem. Arnold van Huis also gave statistics to prove that people are standing in front of 'meat risks'.

'A Western family consumes 120 kilograms of meat a year on average, and Chinese consumers consume about 80 kilograms of meat. However, these two numbers will very quickly be balanced. If the average 5 billion people consume 100 kilograms of meat per year, only the amount of food to feed and produce this amount of meat alone has reached 65 billion tons per year , 'said Arnold van Huis.

Therefore, if at the present time people do not provide appropriate measures, by 2050, when the world population reaches 9 billion people, it will need another Earth to solve. food issues.

Professor Arnold van Huis also affirmed that, if humans change animal meats to make food into insects, the situation will be different. Because 1 kg of insects only needs about 1.5 to 2 kg of plants to make food. In addition, the amount of greenhouse gases emitted from the breeding of insects is much less than that of raising livestock.

Besides, insects rich in protein, vitamins and minerals can be used as food for up to 1000 different species and appear in over 80% of countries worldwide. That is not to mention the taste of the dishes made from insects are equally attractive.

'Many countries in the world have insect food, but Western countries have yet to accept this culinary habit. This is really just a psychological problem. Eating insects and eating shrimps, in fact, are not much different , 'said Professor Arnold van Huis.

Anyway, the fact that people have to deal with and solve the risk of food depletion in the future is completely real. And it is not a bad idea to change the food source of animal meat with insects completely.