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Would You Ever Eat Insects? (Survey) [Updated]

5:10 pm in Food & Health, food supply, insects, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger

eating-insects-photo Photo: Wikipedia, CC "When they're fresh, their exoskeletons don't get stuck in your teeth." Reading this article about eating bugs as a greener substitute to animal meat in the Atlantic almost made me swear off food for good. Intellectually, I know that there's probably nothing wrong with insect-sourced protein and I'm ready to believe people who've eaten them that they can be tasty is cooked right, but my poor evolved brain has innate reflexes that make me feel queasy at the idea of putting these things in my mouth. Maybe if...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Grain Production Falling as Soil Erosion Continues

12:44 pm in cropland, earth policy institute, Food & Health, food supply, grain, grain production, haiti, lesotho, mongolia, north korea, soil erosion, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger

mongolia.soil.jpg Photo Credit: Mark Fischer/Creative Commons The thin layer of topsoil that covers much of the earth's land surface is the foundation of civilization. As long as soil erosion on cropland does not exceed new soil formation, all is well. But once it does, it leads to falling soil fertility and eventually to land abandonment. As countries lose their topsoil through Read the full story on TreeHugger

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