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Marcel Dicke

Mealworm dish in a Yunan Restaurant

A Dutch supermarket is bringing edible insects into the mainstream

Food

Edible insects are celebrated for being environmentally friendly and also potentially quite tasty. And now they’re going mainstream, with the Dutch grocery store Jumbo getting ready to put them on the shelves.

Alt-meat lunch: In the Netherlands, a lab for low-impact alternatives to livestock

Environment
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