A chicken eats Grubbly Farms oven-dried black soldier fly grubs, a sustainable protein.
Photographer: Dustin Chambers/BloombergInsects Were the Future of Food. They’ve Ended Up in the Pet Aisle
Demand for insect protein is expected to explode by the end of the decade as pet owners and farmers embrace bug-based feeds for animals.
For their first attempt at making food from insects, Sean Warner and Patrick Pittaluga started with a bug burger.
Their patty, which combined black beans with black soldier fly larvae, was cooked up at their Georgia Tech apartment not long after the United Nations had published an influential 2013 report that touted insects as the future of food, a natural resource that could help with rising meat costs and climate concerns as the global population grows.