Some Canadians are willing to eat insect-based food, but conditions apply

Going to the grocery store these days can be a painful experience, with record-high price hikes biting into Canadian food budgets. However, as many societies around the world already know, a cheap, plentiful source of protein is literally at our feet: insects, especially crickets, grasshoppers, ants and beetles. While entomophagy—the eating of insects—has lagged in the U.S. and Canada, a new study by Concordia researchers has found that there is some interest in the dietary practice, with some demographic groups showing more openness than others. The paper is published in Scientific Reports.