If you are from coastal area, chances are you love fish. Even if you do not love fish, you must have had fish in some form - either at home or restaurants. But most of the fish we eat these days come from fish farms. These fish farm normally feed food pellets to the fish to make them grow faster. Any guesses what a pish pellet comprises of - it is a mix of smaller fish like anchovies which is mixed with soybean and fats.
Any guesses why it made like this? Soyabean has enough protein so why we need to mix fish with it. Well try eating soyabean someday - it's not very tasty. The fish feel the same way. So, to make it appealing to fish, its mixed smaller fish.
However, exploitation by global fishing corporation has caused a shortage of small fishes, so the fish farmers came up with an alternative. Fish needs meat. so pellets were mixed with flies. It seems like fish also enjoy the new pellets. Awesome, this helps us delay eating bugs ourselves.
It all boils down to the fact that growing cows, fish or chicken places a lot of stress on the environment. Whereas flies are fuss free eaters and energy efficient. Hopefully we keep innovating and keep pushing that timeline coming where we need to eat meal worms to feed global populace.
Share your thought on eating mealworms and worms in general. There are already places on Earth where people take worms as part of staple food. Express how you would feel if the same becomes a compulsion for us.