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Vermin - The Meat of the Future?!

2016
50' (GER, ENG subs)

Nutrition by insects - trend or necessity?

Many vermin are deemed edible by many people of the world. For the daring traveller in Asia and some other countries, eating vermin is the new trend. Now many nutritionists believe vermin to be the solution for a high protein diet without the side effects of meat. In Chinese medicine, they are used to cure cancer and an insect farm has already opened up in the Netherlands. But is it really healthy to eat these critters from the underbelly of the earth? What do scientists have to say about vermin as the food of the future?

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Facts

  • Original Title
    Insekten, das Nahrungsmittel der Zukunft?!
  • Year
    2016
  • Length
    50' (GER, ENG subs)
  • Resolution
    HD
  • Film by
    Jörg Hinners
  • Produced by