WHY INSECTS?

OF THE MANY AVAILABLE SOURCES OF PROTEIN THAT CAN BE EATEN, INSECTS ARE SEEN AS AN ALTERNATIVE PROTEIN SOURCE. PERHAPS, YOU HAVE HEARD OF ALTERNATIVE FOOD SOURCES SUCH AS IMPOSSIBLE FOODS OR BEYOND MEAT, WHICH ARE CELL OR PLANT BASED MEAT SUBSTITUTES. SURPRISINGLY, INSECTS ARE EXTREMELY RICH IN PROTEIN, AND ARE HIGH IN VITAMINS AND AMINO ACIDS. IT CAN ALSO BE LESS OF A HASSLE TO FARM COMPARED TO OTHER PROTEIN SOURCES, PRODUCES LESS WASTE AND EMITS FEWER GREENHOUSE GASSES WHEN COMPARED TO OTHER LIVESTOCK, WHICH MAY HELP OUT SINGAPORE DUE TO ITS LAND SCARCITY. IF THAT IS NOT CONVINCING ENOUGH, A FIRM, THE ASIA INSECT FARM SOLUTION, HAS EXPLORED USING CRICKET POWDER TO SLOWLY INTRODUCE THE IDEA OF INSECT CONSUMPTION TO LOCALS BY BLENDING IT IN SMOOTHIES TO MASK THE IDEA OF INSECTS SO IT WILL BE MORE APPEALING FOR SINGAPOREANS.