Name: Bug appétit! How insect farms and tech fight food waste
Uploaded: 2021-04-24T03:03:22.000Z
Duration: 4 min 42 s
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Imagine a future where we're all eating insects.

Modal verbs - B1

These black fly larvae might not look that appetising,

They're being farmed in a small facility under the rail arches

First, black soldier flies are encouraged

to meet in an artificial and controlled environment.

Their eggs are then extracted and the baby larvae

are fed food waste from local businesses.

So we collect food waste, such as coffee and beer waste.

We process it and then we put it into feeding units

So we now then can separate the larvae from the fertiliser

and then use the fertiliser to grow new crops

and obviously use the larvae to dry and turn into the products.

but the insect protein powder could eventually

the most efficient and environmentally friendly

That's important because the UN says around a third

of all food produced globally every year is wasted.

And that means wasted water, wasted land,

wasted energy, wasted money, and greater greenhouse gas

The perfect business would be to go into the gym industry

low-fat diets because it is incredibly high quality

Your vegetable-based proteins have an amino acid profile

around here while your meat-based proteins.

And of course, all other meat-based proteins

The question really is, why wouldn't you eat insects?

even go as far as saying the black fly larvae could taste

In the same London Bridge unit, SafetyNet

The UN says around 27 per cent of fish caught

Bycatch can include juvenile fish, protected species,

or crustaceans, which are then thrown back

We design lights that fit into fishing nets like this,

And we use these to help guide fish out of the nets

So we turn these lights on and some fish can see some colours.

And other fish maybe can't see that so well.

So we might light up one part of the net like Las Vegas

And they'll swim over and look at it and find their way out.

And the other fish swim past as if there's nothing

Household waste is a big part of the problem, too.

UK households on average waste the equivalent of seven meals

Tessa Clark was so stunned at the scale of the problem that

she founded Olio, a mobile app that lets consumers with

unwanted food connect with neighbours living nearby who

Food waste as an issue has not yet had its moment,

of the level of public consciousness around the scale

is going to be considered in the same way

It's going to take someone who is really sort of a mainstream

leader to step forward and to highlight to the world

the scale of this problem and the immediacy

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Bug appétit! How insect farms and tech fight food waste

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