VO-australia/planet earth/delicious food smach cut to bugs??Scientists at the University of Queensland in Australia are working on making our world a better place by searching for new, tasty, sustainable foods… made from bugs.????VO-beef/chickens??According to meat scientist and study lead, Dr. Louwrens Hoffman, the way we’re currently farming livestock is unsustainable-????VO-people timelapse QoS??Saying quote: “An overpopulated world is going to struggle to find enough protein unless people are willing to open their minds, and stomachs, to a much broader notion of food.” ????VO-sausage factory/ice cream-fly overlay??Which he says, of course, will involve delicacies like maggot sausage… or an insect ice cream, which one of Hoffman’s students has already created.

Yum.????VO-vending machine??Hoffman goes on to explain that it will be important to disguise the insects in prepared foods since studies have shown people don’t really want to eat them whole.????VO-An Idiot abroad??Which an episode of “An Idiot Abroad” could have told you the same thing:????SOT- an idiot abroad??“There’s a woman over there just tucking in on a load of scorpions… you see I don’t know where it stops.

Where’s the line between food and insect?

She gets up in the morning and there’s a spider in the bath.

What does she do?

“”Oh, good.

I’ll save the Croissant for tomorrow.

I’ll eat that now.””????VO-??But Hoffman isn’t alone.

????VO-logo/weird food on stick??In 2013 a report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United nations urged people around the world to eat more insects as they’re more nutritious cheaper and more sustainable than conventional meat.????VO-burger??Which is fair enough, i guess… But I think I’ll just stick to the Impossible Burger instead.??