Would you eat a mealworm? Bob Simpson hopes your answer is yes — or that you’d at least feed some to your chickens. Simpson owns Vermont Mealworm Farm, where he raises roughly 2.4 million of the ...

Plastic, long considered nonbiodegradable and one of the biggest contributors to global pollution, might have met its match: The small, brownish, squirmy mealworm. Researchers have learned that the ...

Would you eat food made with worms? Starting this week, certain products may legally contain mealworm powder, as the European Commission has officially approved its use for the next five years. The ...

It's a question you might soon be hearing at the dinner table, or at least that's the hope of scientists at South Korea's Wonkwang University. Researchers In Hee Cho and Hyeyoung Park presented their ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - Vermont’s Farm to Plate Network is working to create a more sustainable food system as part of a region-wide effort to increase New England’s food production by 30% by 2030.

Want to eat sustainably? Then eat bugs. That's the word from the Dutch, who are doing their best to make a scientific case for the environmental benefits of insect proteins. Reduce greenhouse gases?

A Styrofoam meadow created by artist Narendra Haynes is consumed by mealworms. The living sculpture is part of the "Eco/Systems: Gather" exhibit at Asian Arts Initiative. (Emma Lee/WHYY) A small ...

An adorable otter would rather play with his food than eat it! Javin, a 15-year-old Asian small clawed otter, can be seen toying with his mealworm dinner before feasting at the Point Defiance Zoo and ...

In a bid to mitigate the harmful effects of conventional plastic disposal, scientists in Kenya said they have found a promising solution: mealworm beetles. Fathiya Khamis, a molecular biologist at the ...

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Furniture retailer IKEA is well known for its affordable, build-it-yourself decor, but also for its cheap and tasty Swedish meatballs. Customers who enjoy the signature snack while shopping for ...

What would you say if your parents served mealworm macaroni for dinner? How about tarantula tacos, with chocolate chip cricket cookies as dessert? You might think they were pranking you, but eating ...