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Go Ahead, Make My Cricket

  • NPR, Thursday, August 7, 2014 9:36 AM

You will be eating insects. Most of the world already does, and it's only a matter of time before that salad comes with ladybugs. Advocates are trying the clever and cute approach versus fear of entomophagy. There's Brooklyn-based Exo (the "x" are antennae), and Massachusetts-based Six Foods is rolling out cricket-based chips later in 2014 called “Chirps.” And while locusts don't sound appetizing, there is a movement to rename them "sky prawns." One hopes we will stop before millipedes become "floor pasta."

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