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Getting past the ‘ick’ factor: Ontario acquires a taste for crickets

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Getting past the ‘ick’ factor: Ontario acquires a taste for crickets TVO Around the world, roughly two billion people eat insects as part of their regular diet, noshing on about 1,900 different bug species. Here, where we don’t have a strong tradition of eating beetles, caterpillars, bees, or crickets — some of the most popular dietary insects, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — we eat bugs, too, but by accident. We ingest them via invisible fragments in our coffee, wheat, pasta, chocolate, and other foods and drinks. READ MORE

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