The insects we eat, the TVs love it, it's an opportunity for spectacular shots of human mouths full of grasshoppers (what do you mean, that's the photo we chose), a kind of Koh lanta without the costs and dangers of travel. And in a diner in town, we will always find an ecolo-nigo to tell us emphatically that insects are the solution to hunger in the world… oh well, because a few years ago it was spirulina.
In an April report, the National Food Safety Agency asks a lot of questions about insects. A document where we discover that we know nothing or very little about the various risks that the consumption of insects involves. First, insects can secrete toxic substances, they can also accumulate pesticides and persistent organic pollutants. And our knowledge on the subject is almost nil. On the other hand, we know that the insects offered for consumption are carriers of common allergens with crustacean and mollusc mites. Allergies should therefore be careful.
Insects are suspected of containing anti-nutritional factors that would block the absorption of useful nutrients… found in other foods. And the breeding of insects in batteries, what do animal defenders say about it? And yes because no regulations exist, we know nothing of the conditions in which the insects that we are offered are raised. Nothing is known about the preservation of these foods either. So maybe we'll wait a little longer before we all start mealworms to save the planet and end hunger in the world.
