Historical significance might soon have more important future consequences

Insects might soon be
standard fare for everyone.

Our penchant for eating meat might have historical significance, but it might have even more important contemporary and future consequences.

Westerners have long based their diet around meat and while our growing physical size of both our bodies and brains has been attributed to meat, it could also be our undoing.

People in the world’s developing countries, which are among the world’s most populous nations, are quickly acquiring a taste for meat and so there is an ever increasing demand for meat on the world market.

Production of meat is environmentally inefficient and worsens the conditions that lead to climate change.

There is, however, and answer and the world’s burgeoning population, which is expected to be 10 or 11 billion by the end of this century, now needs to think seriously about vegetarianism and eating insects.

Just today the Huffington Post has discussed the need for humans to change their diets and consider adding a new form of protein – insects!

The idea is discussed in a story headed:  “Forget The Hamburger; Insects Are Better For You And The Planet”.