Bugs On the Menu (52 Minute Version)
Catalogue Number: 291160
Producer: 291 Film Company
Producers: Bradley, Mark
Directors: Toews, Ian
Producing Agencies: Documentary Channel
Subject: Canadian World Studies, Consumer Studies, Documentary, Environmental Studies, Family Studies/Home Economics, Science, Social Media
Language: English
Grade Level: 9 - 12, Post Secondary, Adult
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 2016
Running Time: 51:59
The answer to feeding the world’s expanding population may be smaller than you think.
This sustainable food documentary was shot in four continents over two years. It is a comprehensive examination of entomophagy (aka: ‘bug eating’), from the perspectives of cultural traditions in Latin America, Africa, and SE Asia. Experts Dr. Arnold van Huis of The Netherlands (author of the UN report “Edible Insects”) and Washington D.C.’s Sonny Ramaswamy of the USDA provide scientific analysis of this food industry revolution. It also follows startup companies, such as Ontario’s Entomo Farms, Salt Lake City’s Shark Tank-winning Chapul, Boston’s female-led insect chip company Six Foods, Austin’s Hult Prize-winning Aspire Food Group, Vancouver’s famed Indian restaurant Vij’s, and Seattle’s celebrity cook, The Bug Chef. These and other restaurateurs, cricket farmers, scholars, and scientists are part of a movement to normalize insect eating in the west, as an alternative to accepted, but resource intensive proteins like chicken, pork, and beef.
Also available as a 78 minute version.
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