Christine Picard’s search for a better bug to feed the world starts with dead bodies. Well, not the corpses themselves, but the blow flies, flesh flies, and other squirmy, wriggly things that wing ...

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. What is the life of a cricket worth? Besides being big business, insect farms also ...

A farmer holds a handful of locusts in Pakistan. Photographer: Asim Hafeez/Bloomberg Raising animals intensively for food is the biggest source of animal cruelty on the planet. It also happens to be a ...

The world has a poop problem. A big one. By 2030, it will be a 3.7 billion-tonnes-a-year problem, and that’s just accounting for faeces produced by farmed animals. This, by any measure, is a lot of ...

For insect protein start-ups catering to humans rather than animals, combatting this reluctance is a major goal. “To lead them to diversify their daily protein consumption and truly make insects a ...

Zimbabwean farmer Brighton Zambezi rears chicken at his backyard farm in Harare's Sunningdale. (Photo by Farai Shawn Matiashe) This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or ...

Insect farming startup Ynsect has secured more funding as it expands globally and looks to prioritize higher-value food for pets and humans. The French company closed a €160 million, or $175 million, ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover women social entrepreneurs, peace builders and change agents. When in 2017, Mante Sidlauskaite, founded her ...

Evolving views on food are challenging traditional diets — and not just for humans. Innovative dining options are also being added to the menus of our pets. Startups have proposed numerous new ways to ...