Dutch scientist Arnold van Huis thinks that introduction of bugs in human nutrition would solve a problem of hunger in the world, save Amazonian forests, improve the people’s health, and reduce a global carbon-dioxide emission.

A global crisis with lack of food would be overcome if the people started to eat worms, grasshoppers, and other insects. This would also help in solving the problem of reduction of cultivable agricultural areas and potable water resources, opines this professor from the Wageningen University.

Van Huis says that the Europeans should consider insects as an alternative source of proteins, as they contain up to 90 per cent of these, unlike beef, containing 40 to 70 per cent of proteins. He plans to publish a cookbook with recipes for the dishes prepared of bugs, in order to stimulate their introduction in nutrition.