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Will Americans Ever Eat Insects for Food? Startups Say, ‘Yes, We Will!’
Aspire co-founder and COO Gabe Mott is a neuroscientist who never imagined he would be a cricket farmer. He is also a vegetarian, but he makes an exception for insects because he believes they are ethical, sustainable, and “a reasonable distribution of food.”
He absolutely gushed over the succulent calamari-texture and sweetness of the palm weevil his company supports in Ghana.
Mott was one of five MBA students from Montreal’s McGill University who won the million-dollar Hult Prize, a startup accelerator for social entrepreneurship, for their idea to help people in countries that already consume insects to expand their production.
Read full article: Epoch Times, 24 March, 2016