Will insects be the next Thai food phenomenon?

In the world there are many cultures, each with their customs and also with their typical food, even though strangers to various cultures, normal eating insects, larvae and other exotic animal. According to the writer Vincent Holt Grubs eat bugs and can be an outlet for evil malnutrition and even for people who do not have what to eat. Insects in general are rich in proteins and minerals, and in several places in the world they are used as food, and other countries are beginning to accept and use this unusual type of food. Thailand and one of the countries leading the consumption of insects, reaching nearly eight tons each year, about 6 times more than chicken consumption in the country. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reports that the livestock of these animals can be the key to the food shortage in the world, it is because this insects are easy to grow and even the impact on the environment is minimum. As with cricket, to produce a kilograms of edible crickets are necessary about two kilograms of feed, very different from ten kilograms of necessary feed to purchase a pound of beef. Among the best known insects station cricket, grasshopper and palm weevil larvae and caterpillars and bamboo, these insects are produced in Thailand where it has about 20,000 agricultural enterprises specialized in insect production. For Yupa Hanboonsong, co-author of the FAO report and associate Professor in entomology from Khon Kaen University, this number is because the crisis that the country faced in 1997, where many people migrated to the northeast of the country, people began to create crickets, food that helped people to not starve. Hanboonsong account that there about 15 years ago was very hard to see in the supermarket the amount of insects that they have today. what is very good and is bringing more countries to join this idea, as in the case of Netherlands that has partnered with Jumbo chain, that'll be selling next year such products. The great challenge and maintain diversified product and change the mindset of people who think this kind of disgusting food. You never know what will be the next insect to be integrated to this list, or what will be the new elaborate dish, but it is worth opening the mind and the "mouth" for this not so new food.

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