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Buzzing: Insect manure is good stuff
Hello everyone, how are you keeping? Buzzing has treated itself to a brand new look; I hope you like it as much as I do. This week in Buzzing: Insect…
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Emilie Filou
Buzzing: A Children's Special
Happy new year everyone – may 2021 bring you vaccination and human interaction. This week in Buzzing: Kids aren’t bugged by insects. Fact. The Q&A…
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Emilie Filou
Buzzing: Can insects make meat & fish more sustainable?
Avid readers of Buzzing will remember reading about Talash Huijbers’s Black Soldier Fly (BSF) farm in Kenya last edition. Her company, InsectiPro, may…
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Emilie Filou
Buzzing: Yuck?
A few weeks’ back, I came across an article in the Sun newspaper: “Bake Off judge Prue Leith releases gruesome video of her eating CRICKET risotto…
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Emilie Filou
Buzzing: What do insects taste like?
This week in Buzzing: What do insects taste like? There are 2,000 answers. The Q&A: Dr Teun Veldkamp from Susinchain on sustainability Test Corner…
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Emilie Filou
Buzzing: an Africa special
Howdy everyone, I hope you’re keeping well. We’re travelling to Africa this week: I first came across insect farming in Africa, so it seems apt to…
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Emilie Filou
Could Brexit be a good thing for the insect sector?
Today in Buzzing: We talk regulation – could Brexit be a good thing? Q&A with David Allan, Spectrum Test Corner: Cricket burger Howdy everyone. How are…
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Emilie Filou
Buzzing: Why don't we eat insects?
In June 2019, at the grand old age of 39, I ate my first insect. Intentionally*. I did it in the name of research for a story I was writing about edible…
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Emilie Filou
Buzzing: 2020 was big
This week in Buzzing: The big news of 2020 The Q&A: Leopold Taylor, BUG Test corner: Mealworm and kale pesto rigatoni Howdy everyone. How are you today…
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Buzzing: How well are edible insects doing?
Last week, I attended a webinar organised by Woven Network (the UK’s insect industry body) with Prof Arnold van Huis of the University of Wageningen in…
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Emilie Filou
Buzzing: Insects cost a packet
Hello friends, how are you? I’m delighted to report that Eat Crawlers, a New Zealand-based edible insect company and Buzzing subscriber, have adopted my…
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Emilie Filou
Buzzing: Are insects greener than meat?
In Nordic Food Lab’s brilliant book On Eating Insects, Mark Bomford, Director for the Yale Sustainable Food Programme, writes: “If an insect and a cow…
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Emilie Filou
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