Edible Insects

100g of crickets provides only about 12g of protein, requiring 400–800g daily to meet human protein needs. Insect-as-food proposals would conduct a population-scale safety and nutrition experiment before efficacy and safety are established. Feeding insects low-cost inputs reduces their nutritional density, placing affordability and nutrition in direct conflict. Heat processing insects to kill pathogens degrades the nutritional content that justified them as food. Widespread cultural adoption of insect consumption is unlikely in the near term. Insects are proposed as the future of food with a target of widespread adoption by 2050.