Around the world are consumed 1,900 insect species, the majority of them in Africa and Asia. United Nations just suggested that extending this practice to Western countries could help fight the obesity and improve the environment, and combat at the same time, the hunger.
The idea the has been suggested the forest department of FAO (the UN organization for food and agriculture) during an International Conference on Nutrition and Food Security in Rome (Italy). "In Western cultures have prejudices and we think like insects are eaten in under development countries can not be good," he admits Arnold van Huis, the Dutch university of Wageningen, and author of one report advocating this thesis.
This paper argues that many insect species contain the same amount of protein and minerals than meat and fish, but they are also rich in certain fatty acids that have proven health benefits.
Eva Muller, FAO representative, recalled that are becoming more Western restaurants including insects in his letters as Danish Noma grasshoppers, considered the best restaurant in the world. But also help combat the obesity epidemic in industrialized countries (which already affects 500 million people), the FAO estimates that consumption of insects present less ecological damage, as their production requires less land and releases of gases to the atmosphere.
Make matters worse, the FAO says insects popularize the table would be an interesting business opportunity in rural communities in developing countries.
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