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 get into a metrics fight […] the insect always triumphs.” Whatever the enviro-metric – water requirement, greenhouse gas emissions, feed-conversion ratio – the insects have it. After extensive research however, he concluded that “insects, like all foods, were much more than the sum of their terrific-looking feed-conversion ratios or carbon footprints […] They were land, life, culture, ecology, meaning and mystery.” Crikey I thought.
Buzzing: Are insects greener than meat?
Buzzing: Are insects greener than meat?
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 get into a metrics fight […] the insect always triumphs.” Whatever the enviro-metric – water requirement, greenhouse gas emissions, feed-conversion ratio – the insects have it. After extensive research however, he concluded that “insects, like all foods, were much more than the sum of their terrific-looking feed-conversion ratios or carbon footprints […] They were land, life, culture, ecology, meaning and mystery.” Crikey I thought.