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A constant increase in the world’s population leads to lack of food in many regions, so people are looking for new foods that could be eaten.
Grasshoppers for a snack
So, in the countries of Asia, Latin America and Africa for a long time feed on various insects. The terrible invasion of locusts, that befell China in 2001, completely destroyed all crops in country, however, resourceful Asians have realized that it is possible in turn eat gluttonous insects, and the store shelves in China flooded locusts, now in the form of food.
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Gastronomic innovations in the face of edible insects in recently began to appear even in the United States and EU countries. High calorie larvae crispy flour grasshopper chips, chocolate ants, nutritious butter termites – for many, all this sounds, to put it mildly, outlandish. However, if two billion earthlings (and this is almost a third of the population planets) periodically eat insects, why not can the rest? In Europe and America to similar delicacies at first they were wary and even cautious, but now this the situation began to change.
Profitable and promising business
According to experts, by 2020, residents Old World will annually eat insect products on seventy five million dollars. In some US for the last two years, twenty-five companies have opened, making similar products. And things are going for such firms. better from month to month. Owner of an American firm manufacturing flour from crickets, told reporters that this year the net the profit of his enterprise amounted to almost two hundred million dollars. In the near future, the owner intends to increase this figure by three times.
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Europe also tries not to leave. For example, the Dutch network supermarkets “Jumpo” recently included sandwiches in its assortment with flour worm dough. Such a pleasure is still a little expensive – about five hundred rubles for one sandwich, if translated into Russian money. In France, a store selling products from larvae of various insects. They enjoy particular success here. moth larvae positioned as healthy and relatively inexpensive alternative to meat. And in some Italian bars the assortment appetizers replenished with chips from tarantulas – according to visitors who dare to try them, potato chips do not go in no comparison with this miracle of culinary.
Moreover, the buyers of these products are practically only native Europeans, since the vast majority immigrants profess Islam strictly forbidding the use of insects for food.
Cow is a weak link
Manufacturers are confident that the future of global food industry for the “meat” of arthropods. Cows grow long require care, a lot of water and the presence of pasture, while crickets, cockroaches or grasshoppers breed very rapidly, unpretentious, fantastically resilient to any external influences, also do not require much space and food.
Insect products can already be purchased in Russia, however they are imported to us from Thailand so far. However, it is possible that with over time, the import substitution policy will be implemented in this sphere. Already something, but we always had our grasshoppers and worms abound.
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