Eat the Beetles! (eBook)

An Exploration into Our Conflicted Relationship with Insects

David Waltner-Toews (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
276 Seiten
ECW Press (Verlag)
978-1-77305-035-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Meet the beetles: there are millions of them and many fewer of the rest of us mammals, birds, and reptiles. Since before recorded history, humans have eaten insects. While many get squeamish at the idea, entomophagy - people eating insects - is a possible way to ensure a sustainable and secure food supply for the eight billion of us on the planet. From upscale restaurants where black ants garnish raw salmon to grubs as pub snacks in Paris and Tokyo, Eat the Beetles! weaves these cultural, ecological, and evolutionary narratives to provide a humorous exploration of entomophagy.

Autor

David Waltner-Toews is an epidemiologist, veterinarian, and writer specializing in ecosystem approaches to health and disease. He is the founding president of Veterinarians without Borders. Previous books include The Origin of Feces, The Chickens Fight Back, and Food, Sex and Salmonella. He has also published fiction and poetry. He lives in Kitchener, Ontario.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.6.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Themenkochbücher
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: arthropods • bug protein • eating crickets • enterra • entomo farms • Entomology • entomophagic food safety issues • entomophagists • food of the future • Food Revolution • Global Food Security • insect farm • insectivory • insect protein • sustainability • sustainable eating • united nations food and agriculture organization • ynsect
• ISBN-10: 1-77305-035-4 / 1773050354
• ISBN-13: 978-1-77305-035-5 / 9781773050355