Bibliograph

Eat the beetles!, an exploration into our conflicted relationship with insects, David Waltner-Toews

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Eat the beetles!, an exploration into our conflicted relationship with insects, David Waltner-Toews

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Eat the beetles!

Nature of contents

dictionaries

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David Waltner-Toews

Sub title

an exploration into our conflicted relationship with insects

Summary

Meet the beetles: there are millions and millions of them and many fewer of the rest of us-mammals, birds, and reptiles. Since before recorded history, humans have eaten insects. While many get squeamish at the idea, entomophagy-people eating insects-is a possible way to ensure a sustainable and secure food supply for the eight billion of us on the planet. Once seen as the great enemy of human civilization, destroying our crops and spreading plagues, we now see insects as marvelous pollinators of our food crops and a potential source of commercial food supply. From upscale restaurants where black ants garnish raw salmon to grubs as pub snacks in Paris and Tokyo, from backyard cricket farming to high-tech businesses, Eat the Beetles! weaves these cultural, ecological, and evolutionary narratives to provide an accessible and humorous exploration of entomophagy

Target audience

adult

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