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Insects In Our Food

INSECTS FOOD! IN OUR INSECT ESTIMATED CNTIFIED IDE INSECT SPECIES 1417SPECIES ARE MUNCHED BY HUMANS! 14% Bees Wasps & Ants 18% Caterpillars 13% Grasshoppers Locusts & Crickets 31% Beetles 10% Cicadas Leafhoppers & Planthoppers 5% Other 2% Flies 3% Termites 3% Dragonflies OUTNUMBERED BY CREEPY CRAWLIES! 10 QUINTILLION INSECTS (THAT'S 10,000,000,000,000,000,000) 7 BILLION PEOPLE 1.4 BILLION INSECTS ONE PERSON AVG WEIGHT: 60KG AVG WEIGHT: 3MG INS 70 TIMES HEAVIER ARE THAN THE HUMAN POPULATION WHAT YOU ALREADY EAT! COCHINEAL SHELLAC BEETLES BUGS Cochineal http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfCFR/CFRSearch.cfm?fr=73.100 Shellac http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/nbstechnologic/nbstechnologicpaperT232.pdf 10 Quintillion insects/900,000 insect species http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_S/nmnh/buginfo/bugnos.htm Human population http://www.census.gov/population/popclockworld.html 1.4 billion insects for every human http://www.theqlobeandmail.com/globe-de- bate/the-weight-of-all-those-creepy-crawlies/article4461850/ 1,417 edible insects http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Q7f1LkFz11gC&printsec- frontcover&source-gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false IG Pest Control 4-6 million insect species http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v416/n6883/abs/416841a.html Feral Birds-adeats-sect SPECIES 9-7

Insects In Our Food

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The UN has said we should eat more insects to help solve world hunger, but what insects are we already consuming on a day to day basis? Did you know that out of the estimated 4-6 million unique ins...

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