date:Jul 05, 2019
opened the door to alternative food sources.
However, in some countries where insects have been part of a culinary tradition, such as Mexico, Nigeria and Botswana, negative perceptions of eating insects have taken root.
In these countries the younger population is rejecting insects as a food source, associating it with poverty and a provincial mind set.
In Mexico for example, where insect markets are increasingly popular among tourists, self-consumption, harvesting and farming are declining