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Cricket bruschetta, chocolate mealworm cookies... coming to a supermarket near eww! Inside North America's first industrial-scale farm where bugs are hatched, gassed and cooked to meet a soaring demand - for HUMAN consumption

Published: 8 August 2014

'Minus one!' There's a familiar scrunching noise as an escapee is stepped on. Then I accidentally step on one too.

... A few months later, McGill University students won the prestigious Hult prize – for showing how insects could be a popular and viable food source. Former US President Bill Clinton presented them with the million dollar award for the students’ work towards fighting food insecurity and helping undernourished communities. 

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