David Fickling, Columnist

Insect-Farming Could Lead to Eating Even More Meat

Insects are best suited to solve a problem the livestock industry has been struggling with for decades.

March 4, 2024 at 8:00 PM UTC

David Fickling is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering climate change and energy. Previously, he worked for Bloomberg News, the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times.

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No dystopian picture of a climate-ruined planet is complete until you’ve been put off your lunch.

Whether it’s the grubs farmed by Dave Bautista in Blade Runner: 2049 or Charlton Heston in Soylent Green yelling that food is being made from “people,” there are few things that provoke as visceral a reaction as the prospect that ecological disaster might force you to eat something gross.