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  1. May 2015
    1. Although there are many benefits to eating insects, I think most people including myself would never be able to eat bugs. It probably isn't that bad since 2 billion people around the world do it, but since we are not used to eating bugs from an early age, our fear will probably only increase as the years go by. If we were introduced to this earlier, eating bugs would be normal.

    2. An insect diet is better for the environment, better for our health and could be better for the economy too.

      Insect consumption will reduce the amount of animal farming across the world. This would be bad for farmers; they would earn less money. Besides, how many people in this country, let alone the world, would voluntarily step up to eating insects for nutrition and less animal farming?

    3. An insect diet is better for the environment, better for our health and could be better for the economy too. Our infographic looks at what entomophagy can bring to the table

      I think that this would be hard to convert many countries to this because of the stigma against bugs. I don't think the issue would be the way the bugs taste but how they are viewed by society.