It may sound kind of gross, but insects is one of the most nutritious and protein-packed food sources available to humans.
Considering the food production problems that we are bound to run into in the coming decades, Austrian industrial designer Katherina Unger has come up with a concept that will allow individuals to breed insects for food.
Named Farm 432, this compact device takes just 432 hours to turn 1 gram of black soldier fly eggs into 2.4 kilogram of larvae protein—this innovative home farm even self-harvests the ready-to-eat larvae into a bucket for easy collection.
Costing almost nothing to operate, the larvea produced by this system also make for an extremely healthy diet as they are low-fat, low-calorie and very high in calcium and amino acids.
However, the question remains as to whether people can actually get use to making insect larvae a staple food.
[via Katherina Unger]