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## “The inclusion of insects in diet is not a punishment", states biologist Estefanía Micó at the UJI

21/05/2014 |
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"We can not neglect any source of healthy eating", explained lecturer of Animal Biology at the University of Alicante, Estefanía Micó, speaking at the lecture SOMos at the Faculty of Health Sciences. Under the title "Are we sustainable?", she listed the advantages of including insects in daily food.

Micó described the main reasons why two-thirds of the world's population who do not eat insects should start doing it. The first is because it is a healthy diet that provides plenty of protein, B vitamin and polyunsaturated fats, and it is also “a clean food, because it feeds on plants” and would solve in part (if the infrastructure was created) problems such as malnutrition or overweight.

The second reason is that it would reduce the environmental impact caused by traditional farming, in which 34% of the grain grown and 16% of the fish caught are invested, and causes 18% of the greenhouse emissions. And the third and fourth reasons refer to habitat conservation and the possibility of increasing environmental and economic efficiency.

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