There might intentionally be bugs in your burgers soon

If the thought of finding a bug in your burger grosses you out, imagine if the bugs were your burger. Scientists are looking at a mealworms as a creepy crawly alternative to beef, pork and poultry. If that’s tough to swallow, consider that livestock accounts for 70 percent of the world’s available farmland, and the demand for meat is expected to grow, which means the release of more greenhouse gases. So researchers in the Netherlands are looking into whether eating worms would be a sustainable alternative. As for whether anyone would actually want to chow down on, ya know, worms, good luck with that. [Source]

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