Edible insects make few gases, contain high-quality protein, vitamins and amino acids, and are good at converting food - they only need a quarter of the food that sheep need to make the same amount of protein. You can grow them on organic waste. China is already building huge maggot farms. Zimbabwe is growing caterpillars and Laos is developing an insect-harvesting project. One study says that eating crickets and locusts, and not eating pork and beef, could help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 95%.
What is one environmental benefit of replacing pork and beef with insects in a diet?
It would lower greenhouse gas emissions It would reduce the destruction of green forests by 95% It would create useful organic waste It would lower the environmental damage caused by shipping heavy animals