Entomphagy

Entomophagy People eat parts of insects in everyday life by taking the nutritional value without observing that. Many food products use insects to develop and reach perfect results with lower costs. Food laws in many countries do not prevent using insect parts in food, but they determine the quantity. For instance, the average of the insect fragment in wheat flour is about 150 or more per 100 germs. Researchers recently found that thousands of years ago people ate the insects as the main sources to survive. Today eating insect is very rare in many developed countries such as the United States, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. But that should change for several reasons, entomophagy, which means consuming of the insects as food sources, should be acceptable in all societies. First of all, entomophagy provides human with many nutritional value such as fat, protein, vitamin, calcium and iron. According to the Entomological Society of America, insects generally have about 20 times higher food conversion efficiency than traditional meats (“What is Entomophagy?”).For instance, crickets contain 121 calories, 49.5 of fat, 12.9 germs of protein and loaded with 75.8 of iron. Crickets also contain a lot of calcium to develop human bones. In contrast, ground beef and fish consist less iron, vitamin level and four times fats. In addition, Lysine is an essential amino acid available in entomophagy more than beef or fish. Humans need to get lysine acid in their diet because it is often missing, especially those who follow vegetarian rules. Second, entomophagy is good for the environment. Raising insects for food is worthy to the environment because they will use less land space. Compared with the livestock such as chicken, pig and cow, they need more space to live. In addition, insects consume less resources like very little amount of water and food. In this case, human beings will have additional amount of water and food. The grasshopper

References: ” University of Georgia. Marianne Shockley. Web. 13 December 2012. . “What is Entomophagy?.” Insects are Food, Entomophagy is the future. Web. 13 December 2012 < http://www.insectsarefood.com/what_is_entomophagy.html>.