EAT THE BUGS: UK Schoolchildren Fed Insects to Encourage ‘Sustainability’
Schoolchildren in Wales are being fed bugs as part of a research programme by publicly-funded universities “to educate children on the environmental and nutritional benefits of edible insects across the UK”
Normalising bug-eating seems to be a particular obsession of institutions in the United Kingdom and the wider West, with the UK Research and Innovation Council (UKRI) — an arm of the British government — suggesting in 2021 that “meat” fashioned from mealworms and crickets may have to replace regular meat as part of the “net zero” agenda.
The European Union, too, has been keen to push insect consumption, moving to approve them as regulated foodstuffs in 2020.