The Food of the Future

Can insects become an alternative food source globally? Beyond personal sensitivities, even in Europe with the recent regulations on the possibility of selling flours from crickets, one wonders about the value of this alternative protein source in opposition to intensive farming and more environmentally sustainable thanks to the significantly lower consumption of water and electricity. In the northeast of Thailand insects have been consumed for centuries, in recent years it has bet on this sector by proposing itself as a leading nation on the know-how of this supply chain with its 200,000 companies. Today the situation is very different, the farmers are tried by the post-Covid economic crisis, inflation and the disproportionate increase in the cost of feed also resulting from the war in Ukraine. Surely this is a viable path even if the resistance of the West is not easy to win for Thailand it remains a bet for the future.