Children in Japan gathered a variety of insects and brought them to Kyoto as part of an initiative to determine the value of a cheap and nourishing food source.
About 50 participants, including parents, also listened for the first time to an expert speak about eating insects because many of them appeared to have heard that, according to Kyodo News Agency, about two billion people consume about 2,000 different varieties of insects worldwide. Wednesday early.
Then, in a nearby mountain, they practised hunting insects like locusts and tried it fried.
A child of 8 years old stated: “Although I adore them, this is the first time I’ve eaten an insect. It was tasty and sweet.”
The organizer, the Rotary Kyoto East club, says it wants to know more people about the human consumption of insects..
To promote insects as a food source, Japan introduces children to bug tasting.
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