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Bugs Were Supposed to be the Future of Food. Now, the Industry is Collapsing.

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This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. “We have to get used to the idea of eating insects.” This proclamation came from, of all people, an insect researcher. Dutch entomologist Marcel Dicke pitched eating bugs in his 2010 TED talk as critical to sustainably feeding a growing human population, because […]

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