Name: 馬塞爾.迪克 (Marcel Dicke)：何不食昆蟲？ (中英雙字幕)
Uploaded: 2014-07-10T11:29:13.000Z
Duration: 18 min 35 s
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And I would like to know what the audience is.

Because there's 80 percent out there that really eats insects.

Why not eat insects? Well first, what are insects?

Insects are animals that walk around on six legs.

There's six million species of insects on this planet,

In fact, if we count all the individual organisms,

But if we would count all the individuals,

it would amount to something like 200 to 2,000 kg.

but they also are involved in our economy,

a conservative estimation, a couple of years ago

a contribution to the economy of the United States for free.

And so I looked up what the economy was paying

contribute to the economy of the United States

They remove dung, they pollinate our crops.

of insects taking care of the reproduction of plants.

And at the end of the food chain, we are eating them as well.

There's quite a lot of people that are eating insects.

in a small, provincial town in China, Lijiang --

If you go out for dinner, like in a fish restaurant,

where you can select which fish you want to eat,

you can select which insects you would like to eat.

There's more than 1,000 species of insects

that are being eaten all around the globe.

than just a few mammals that we're eating,

in this provincial town in China they're doing that, but not us.

Well we've seen already that quite some of you

is eating insects, without any exception.

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馬塞爾.迪克 (Marcel Dicke)：何不食昆蟲？ (中英雙字幕)

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