{"id":130446,"date":"2021-11-11T20:24:49","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T04:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/more-people-are-eating-bugs-but-is-it-ethical-to-farm-insects-for-food"},"modified":"2021-11-11T20:24:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T04:24:49","slug":"more-people-are-eating-bugs-but-is-it-ethical-to-farm-insects-for-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/more-people-are-eating-bugs-but-is-it-ethical-to-farm-insects-for-food","title":{"rendered":"More people are eating bugs \u2014 but is it ethical to farm insects for food?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/more-people-are-eating-bugs-but-is-it-ethical-to-farm-insects-for-food2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rise in insect farming means questions about insect sentience and slaughter are no longer just philosophical: The well-being of trillions of creatures is at stake.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>What is the life of a cricket worth?<\/p>\n<p>Insect farming is <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/1748-5967.12490\">a rapidly growing industry<\/a>, with <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3920\/JIFF2019.0017\">hundreds of companies worldwide<\/a> rearing insects at <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/su12114567\">industrial scales<\/a>. The global value of insect farming is expected to surpass <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1088\/1748-9326\/aba1c1\">US$1.18 billion by 2023<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Farmed insects, or \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.gfs.2020.100376\">mini-livestock<\/a>,\u201d refers to insects such as <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3920\/JIFF2019.0052\">crickets<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/znc-2017-0033\">mealworms<\/a> raised for the sole purpose of being sold as food or animal feed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rise in insect farming means questions about insect sentience and slaughter are no longer just philosophical: The well-being of trillions of creatures is at stake. What is the life of a cricket worth? Insect farming is a rapidly growing industry, with hundreds of companies worldwide rearing insects at industrial scales. The global value of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}