Eating insects - have a Hob Nob...

As part of our Year 7 work, we explore the eating of insects: entomophagy.

As part of this work I say that I am going to eat some insects (given that we have some edible ones ready for them).

I then open a packet of chocolate Hobnobs (one of my preferred biscuit options)

Think about a field of wheat and the wildlife that is within it when it is collected in a combine harvester and then sent to be processed...

It is inevitable that fragments of insect bodies, chitin and the like will be contained within any flour or similar cereals that may then become part of a biscuit.

The same goes for breakfast cereals and other products...

Should we be eating insects?

Year 7 have got to this point in the year again...

Insects - on the menu?

Another article on the eating of insects, which we look at later in Year 7.

Are insects the food of the future?

A good question.

Bugs Matter

There are concerns about the decline in insects.

We have signed up to Bugs Matter to help gather data.

Bugs Matter have produced an app and website.

Instructions of how to get involved:

Before making an essential journey, clean your front number plate. At the end of your journey, place the splatometer over the middle of your front number plate and count the number of squashed flies and other dead bugs you can see through the holes- zero splats still count! Remember to take a photo with the splatometer in place too. Then crucially – submit your count and photo using the app to record the information.

The survey runs from 1st June to 31st August when insects are most active and abundant.

Entomophagy...

Could you do it?
Have you eaten insects?

Could this be a solution to our food supply and food security problems?