What a strange bunch of non-sequitur comments.  Bizarre foods and political squabbles; is that the best we can offer?

For those who don't know, Wilson is the real thing.  His knowledge wasn't acquired by book learning, which some here deride, but by decades of painstaking lab and field work.  Wilson studied ants, and he discovered that they communicate via chemical signals, now known as pheromones.

And that was just for starters...

When he says we should set aside half the Earth, he knows what he's talking about.