Eating insects and swallowing hoaxes: myths and legends about eating bugs

El Pais

Lean Left

High Factuality

Media Conglomerate: PRISA

Eating insects and swallowing hoaxes: myths and legends about eating bugs

Since the European Union gave the green light to the commercialization of insects as food, six years ago, hoaxes have not stopped happening: some say that we already eat them covertly in many foods, such as strawberry yoghurts, others insist that eating insects is dangerous to health, while others go further and defend that the use of insects as food is a plan of the world's elites to prevent us from eating meat, getting sick and keeping us unde…