Eat the Beetles!: An Exploration into Our Conflicted Relationship with Insects

Author: David Waltner-Toews
Publisher: ECW Press
Category: Food & Society, Animals & Society, Food Manufacturing & Related Industries, Popular Science, Biology, Life Sciences, Insects (entomology), Health & Wholefood Cookery, Wildlife: Butterflies, Other Insects & Spiders
Book Format: Paperback

Meet the beetles: there are millions of them and many fewer of the rest of us mammals, birds, and reptiles. Since before recorded history, humans have eaten insects. While many get squeamish at the idea, entomophagy - people eating insects - is a possible way to ensure a sustainable and secure food supply for the eight billion of us on the planet. From upscale restaurants where black ants garnish raw salmon to grubs as pub snacks in Paris and Tokyo, Eat the Beetles! weaves these cultural, ecological, and evolutionary narratives to provide a humorous exploration of entomophagy.

About David Waltner-Toews
David Waltner-Toews is an epidemiologist, veterinarian, and writer specializing in ecosystem approaches to health and disease. He is the founding president of Veterinarians without Borders. Previous books include The Origin of Feces, The Chickens Fight Back, and Food, Sex and Salmonella. He has also published fiction and poetry. He lives in Kitchener, Ontario.

(BK-9781770413146)

SKU BK-9781770413146
Barcode # 9781770413146
Brand ECW Press
Artist / Author David Waltner-Toews
Shipping Weight 0.4600kg
Shipping Width 0.130m
Shipping Height 0.030m
Shipping Length 0.210m
Assembled Length 20.800m
Assembled Height 2.800m
Assembled Width 13.200m
Type Paperback

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