{"id":2391,"date":"2025-01-22T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=2391"},"modified":"2025-01-20T14:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T19:45:10","slug":"eating-insects-makes-good-sense-even-if-it-still-seems-icky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/eating-insects-makes-good-sense-even-if-it-still-seems-icky\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating insects makes good sense, even if it still seems &#8220;icky&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been known for years that insects are an excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC6728817\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source of protein<\/a>, the supply is plentiful, and insects can be farmed \u2013 but nothing ever happens.\u00a0 Will we ever get over feeling &#8220;icky&#8221; about adding insects to our diet?<\/p>\n<p><strong>There are lots of reasons to eat insects. Will we ever overcome the \u2018yuck\u2019 factor?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thespinoff.co.nz\/kai\/28-08-2024\/there-are-lots-of-reasons-to-eat-insects-will-we-ever-overcome-the-yuck-factor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/thespinoff.co.nz\/kai\/28-08-2024\/there-are-lots-of-reasons-to-eat-insects-will-we-ever-overcome-the-yuck-factor<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9781643261362\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been known for years that insects are an excellent source of protein, the supply is plentiful, and insects can be farmed \u2013 but nothing ever happens.\u00a0 Will we ever get over feeling &#8220;icky&#8221; about adding insects to our diet? There are lots of reasons to eat insects. Will we ever overcome the \u2018yuck\u2019 factor?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/eating-insects-makes-good-sense-even-if-it-still-seems-icky\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Eating insects makes good sense, even if it still seems &#8220;icky&#8221;&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,25,44,53,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-lifestyle","category-environment","category-food","category-global","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2391"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2403,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions\/2403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}