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