You participated in the creation of a Kilker farmhouse. What does an insect farm look like?

There are different forms depending on the insect. Here we often have kilkers or dark larvae. They are containers, we add to the crickets of eggs, fresh vegetables that like to raise the scratch dutelako.Tenebrionei, as they are dedicated to livestock. I have a house in the basement, and I give them nothing but flour, gold, bran and peeled vegetables.

Anyone can have a hamlet.

Yeah, and that's interesting. If you have a space in a built-in wardrobe, you can build one. Citizens need a hamlet because pollution prevents them from eating any insect.

It is an unpolluting production.

It's a local production that doesn't require transportation. Compared to mammals, the emission of greenhouse gases is low. They also demand very little water and food. In addition, it cannot be wasted unnecessarily, as it is often possible to eat the whole insect. That's not the case with an ox or a pig, there's huge waste.

It can be a solution to deal with hunger. At least that is what the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations says.

It's not an exit, but it can be an exit. I don't believe in the miraculous outings. In the field of food we have heard of this frequently, and the poor results have not ceased to come to an end. From Tofu we hear all right and now look at the monocultures of GM soybeans! If we start producing trumilka, it's going to bring us problems.

If you look at a financial interest, if it is not the case that others like Monsanto are developing the production.

The rumours say that they are already in it and that the mentalities are the view that they are open enough to be marketed. The risk of developing industrial production is there. That is why we need to boost local production. Why wouldn't we collectively develop some urban dwellings? This project follows the spirit of food sovereignty.

The World Health Organization also supports entomophagia.

It's two miles of insectivorous population. This type of food is usually associated with famine, but no, they are cooked by the traditional taste. In their eagerness to enter Western culture, they tend to abandon this practice. This has negative consequences on their health and lifestyle. In addition, exported to industrial agriculture, the fields are covered by pesticides. Therefore, the institution recommends an investigation of entomophagia so that this gastronomic culture can continue without danger. It would also help to combat the decline of certain types of insects. In this respect it is a solution to deal with hunger, because it is clear that the Westerners will not be in a situation of food shortages.

What are the nutritional properties?

With the same amount, it has as many proteins in a cricket as it does in an ox, but with much less. They are rich in proteins and minerals and vitamins. The ecological cost is a rich and modest food.

What do you like?

It's like asking what taste meat has: according to meat we have different flavors. Ants are extremely acidic, the larvae of bees are very sugary, the crickets taste dirt, like cocoa and fungus. Besides being healthy, they are very interesting for the kitchen.

Two miles of citizens eating insects and we're messed up by the idea itself.

The feeling of tiredness is universal, but at the base they are able to differentiate us from one culture to another. As mucus or corpses, some objects will cause irritations in almost all cultures, at the base is a form of protection. The nausea produced by insect food is culturally constructed. A child sees and dislikes an ant, but soon his parents come to him saying it's dirty. We've linked insects to dirt and unhealthy, putting them all in the same sand, but there are many natures.

However, our ancestors ate them.

This appears in many Roman and Greek texts. The Old Testament determines which insects can be eaten and which can't. Following the view of casher, you can only eat jumping insects. The fact of codifying the matter shows that the habit was fairly widespread. We can still find some clues: for example, in Sardinia we eat the Casu Marzu cheese stuffed with worms and in the East of the United States we eat a kind of cigar that appears entirely from seven to eight years.

Will we soon have insects in our whims?

These built categories are constantly evolving. I don't think it's going to become a new hamburger, but you're going to have more and more room in our food.