{"id":567187,"date":"2019-01-14T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=fab076358f13779ee09195e10957d51d"},"modified":"2019-01-14T12:00:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T16:00:01","slug":"lets-prepare-now-so-farming-insects-as-food-is-environmentally-friendly-say-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=567187","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s prepare now so farming insects as food is environmentally friendly, say scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As whole-roasted crickets gain traction as a protein-rich snack and restaurants experiment with mealworms on the menu, there&#8217;s still &#8220;an overwhelming lack of knowledge&#8221; concerning the ecological sustainability of the emerging, multi-million-dollar insects-as-food industry, say researchers at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. In an opinion article published January 14 in the journal Trends in Ecology &#038; Evolution, they explore unanswered questions around insect rearing, safety, and environmental impacts but overall are optimistic that suppliers will rise to the challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As whole-roasted crickets gain traction as a protein-rich snack and restaurants experiment with mealworms on the menu, there&#8217;s still &#8220;an overwhelming lack of knowledge&#8221; concerning the ecological sustainability of the emerging, multi-million-dollar insects-as-food industry, say researchers at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. In an opinion article published January 14 in the journal Trends in Ecology &amp; Evolution, they explore unanswered questions around insect rearing, safety, and environmental impacts but overall are optimistic that suppliers will rise to the challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=567187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567188,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567187\/revisions\/567188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=567187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=567187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=567187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}