Convincing the world to eat insects

Guacamole with crickets was among the menu items at the Royal Netherlands Embassy on June 26, 2013, in Washington, DC. The embassy hosted an event to show how insects could be used as a sustainable food source for rising world populations. - Filepic/MCT

The UN says we should all be eating insects – could making them as high-status as lobster help put them on the menu?

Students are known for their terrible eating habits, but few have diets as strange as Peter Bickerton, whose recipes for homemade locust burgers and waxworm tacos have been translated into Italian, Indonesian and Arabic as they do the rounds on the Internet.