Forget Cattle, Farmers. Raise Bugs

In an article in Wired magazine, Erin Biba writes about the issue of water shortage on Earth and proposes a solution: farm bugs rather than traditional livestock. "Farming insects generates one-tenth the methane that livestock produces for an equivalent amount of foodstuffs." The article is appropriately titled "Gross National Product" and makes some good points. Although Americans are repulsed by the thought of eating bugs, we actually already are since the government has set up guidelines for insect and rodent parts, feces, etc. in our processed foods.