Why eat insects?
Channel: Small Giants
Date: 23/11/2022

For many reasons: 
1: Insects are naturally high in complete protein, gram for gram, crickets contain 2-3 times more protein than beef. Our pure cricket flour, for example, is 77% protein!
2: Insects are also packed with micronutrients, vitamins (such as B12) and minerals (such as iron) essential for a healthy immune system and brain. 
3: they have a very low impact on the environment. For comparison: crickets produce less than 0.1% of the greenhouse gases that cows produce¹. This is also true for feed and energy, edible insects consume and emit drastically less than traditional protein sources: to produce one kg of beef, it requires 15,000 litres of water and 200m² of land; for one kg of crickets, 10 litres of water and 15m² of land are sufficient ² .

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¹ FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations); Oonincx et al., 2010 (Greenhouse gases)
² Mekonnen e Hoekstra (2010): Mekonnen e Hoekstra (2010)