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With the increase of human population and decrease in meat supply, scientists are researching ways to adapt insects into regular diets. With their article “The Six-Legged Meat of the Future,” published in the Wall Street Journal on February 19, 2011, coauthors, Marcel Dicke and Arnold Van
Huis propose the idea of Westerners adopting insects as a food source (344). These authors are both professors of entomology at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Dicke gives speeches arguing that humans should eat insects rather than meat as one solution to the environmental degradation caused by the meat industry. As for his coauthor, Huis coordinates a research consortium of scientists investigating the nutritional value of insects and gives cooking classes featuring bug recipes (344). This editorial continues their studies of insects to be an implemented food supply. In this piece, Dicke and
Huis provide a logical progression of separate reasons in support of eating insects has several rhetorical properties: it gives them stronger arguments towards logos and builds up their ethos; but lacks in reasoning dealing with pathos.
Dicke and Huis bring up the idea of insects being the meat of the future and establish their stance with supportive reasons. “As the global population blooms and demand strains the world’s supply of meat, there’s a growing need for alternative animal proteins,” (344). They detail how developing worlds already eat insects as a nutritious delicacy along with how bugs can be found being eaten in history and in the Old Testament. After briefly outlining the Netherlands adoption of insects in dishes, the authors explain the effects of livestock production due to the expected human population of nine billion by 2050. The writers believe raising insects is comparably better than livestock. They compare and contrast livestock to insects with values such as yield of food, percent of inedible parts, and waste of the
With the increase of human population and decrease in meat supply, scientists are researching ways to adapt insects into regular diets. With their article “The Six-Legged Meat of the Future,” published in the Wall Street Journal on February 19, 2011, coauthors, Marcel Dicke and Arnold Van
Huis propose the idea of Westerners adopting insects as a food source (344). These authors are both professors of entomology at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Dicke gives speeches arguing that humans should eat insects rather than meat as one solution to the environmental degradation caused by the meat industry. As for his coauthor, Huis coordinates a research consortium of scientists investigating the nutritional value of insects and gives cooking classes featuring bug recipes (344). This editorial continues their studies of insects to be an implemented food supply. In this piece, Dicke and
Huis provide a logical progression of separate reasons in support of eating insects has several rhetorical properties: it gives them stronger arguments towards logos and builds up their ethos; but lacks in reasoning dealing with pathos.
Dicke and Huis bring up the idea of insects being the meat of the future and establish their stance with supportive reasons. “As the global population blooms and demand strains the world’s supply of meat, there’s a growing need for alternative animal proteins,” (344). They detail how developing worlds already eat insects as a nutritious delicacy along with how bugs can be found being eaten in history and in the Old Testament. After briefly outlining the Netherlands adoption of insects in dishes, the authors explain the effects of livestock production due to the expected human population of nine billion by 2050. The writers believe raising insects is comparably better than livestock. They compare and contrast livestock to insects with values such as yield of food, percent of inedible parts, and waste of the
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