In a nondescript warehouse in Maysville, Kentucky, a worker loads food waste into one of the thousands of custom-designed trays stacked in climate-controlled rooms. Each tray is home to masses of ...

For their first attempt at making food from insects, Sean Warner and Patrick Pittaluga started with a bug burger. Their patty, which combined black beans with black soldier fly larvae, was cooked up ...

On the idea that insects hold the answer to the dilemma of how best to feed farmed fish, peer-reviewed research I recently coauthored, along with industry statements, casts doubt on the ability of ...

An industry based on insects’ natural recycling abilities could help limit the environmental damage from our food system. Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript ...

Tyson Foods is partnering with a Dutch bug-protein company to bring insect farming to the U.S., using livestock waste as feed. Earlier this month, meat producing giant Tyson Foods announced its ...

Food trends never sit still. One moment it’s all about plant-based burgers, the next it’s algae chips or lab-grown steaks. As political, environmental, and economic shifts reshape our world, the way ...

As the world population grows, insects have become increasingly popular as a potential meat alternative because they’re high in protein and more sustainable to farm. Multiple VERIFY readers wondered ...

Insect populations are in steep decline, which could endanger the food supply. But there are things we can do to reverse the ...