Eating Insects (Entomophagy)

The UN has promoted insect consumption as a sustainable protein source — crickets produce 80% less methane than cattle and require a fraction of the land and water. The EU approved several insect species for human consumption in 2023. But Western consumers remain viscerally resistant, and conspiracy theories about "elites forcing people to eat bugs" have made entomophagy a culture war flashpoint. Two billion people in Asia, Africa, and Latin America already eat insects regularly; the controversy is largely a Western phenomenon.