Are we ready for this.
Bug burgers to hit Swiss grocery store shelves next week
http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2017/ ... -week.htmlAs the revised law allows for the sale of food items containing crickets, grasshoppers and mealworms (the larval form of the mealworm beetle), a Swiss startup called Essento wasted no time capitalizing on the opportunity. Partnering with Coop, Essento burgers and meatballs made with mealworms will be available on the shelves in Geneva, Basel, Bern, Lugano, Lausanne and Zurich locations next week.
While folks across the pond may be appalled by the thought of deliberately chowing down on bugs, the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organization states that not only is it perfectly healthy to do so, but that insects are consumed by 2 billion people worldwide. In addition, raising insects is much less environmentally exhaustive than conventional livestock, reports