World Edible Insect Day Premiere: Bugburgers new newsletter!
Today it is the 23rd of October – World Edible Insect Day, and to celebrate Bugburger launches a revamped newsletter. Instead of just sending out the latest post to my subscribers, I about once a month...
View ArticleBreaking news! Lagligt att sälja insekter som mat i Sverige!
Den första oktober kom domen i EU-domstolen (C-526/19) som konstaterade att den tidigare versionen av “Novel Food Act” (regelverket som reglerar nyintroducerad mat) från 1997 inte gäller för hela...
View ArticleDe här insektsarterna får säljas i Sverige från 27 oktober 2020
Den 27 oktober meddelade Livsmedelsverket att även Sverige (efter en EU-dom) kommer att tillhöra de länder som får ta del av övergångsreglerna i väntan på att den europeiska...
View ArticleMjölmask på väg att bli godkänd mat av EU!
Mjölmasken och några produkter från Micronutis. För snart tre år sedan lämnade SAS EAP Group (numera Agronutis), ägare till franska insektsföretaget Micronutris in sin novel food-ansökan om att tillåta...
View ArticleThe top 5 list of celebrities endorsing edible insects
Slowly, slowly more and more people in the Western world accept insects as food, and a larger group of early adopters that have overcome their fear/prejudice even eat insects and like it. I firmly...
View ArticleKosher grasshopper meat , cikadas and scientific knowledge
I have just sent #5 of Bugburgers newsletter. You find the latest edition here >> and copies of two of the stories below! If you are not already a subscriber? Please subscribe! E-mail address:...
View ArticleEU gives the green light to mealworms as food! (but not for everyone…)
Yesterday morning I had just sent out #6 edition of my newsletter (where you can read about Australia, Ÿnsect+Protifarm), etc) when I was reached by the news that the European Union finally had voted...
View ArticleHer business idea: Feed insects with plastic – create healthy food
In the emerging insect industry the big stars are mealworms (Tenebrio Molitor & Alphitobius diaperinus), crickets (Acheta domesticus & Gryllodes Sigillatus), grasshoppers (Locusta migratoria...
View ArticleThe edible insects book parade
I have a lot of books about eating insects in my bookshelf. So one day I decided to go through them all and post one book per day, in chronological order, on Bugburger’s Instagram account. 19 books, 19...
View ArticleThe way forward: This is how the edible insect industry can be successful and...
In 2014, when I started Bug Burger, it had been a year since FAO had released the report that changed the way many westerners look at insects. Suddenly a lot of people saw the enormous potential to...
View ArticleKonsten att utveckla en insektskorv: Är isterband gjord på mjölmask framtiden?
Burgaren, korven, köttbullen… mat som alla svenskar känner till. Former som signalerar mat och som bevisligen kan fyllas med annat än kött. När Marcus Jacobsen och Mattias Stenström skulle ge sig i...
View ArticleBig news in the EU: More insects for humans – and poultry and pigs too…
As it has been a really interesting week (and summer) for the insect industry I decided to send out issue #7 of Bugburgers newsletter! You find it here >> Inlägget Big news in the EU: More...
View ArticleBugs meet meat: We have tasted the Swiss flexiburger
In Sweden we see a trend where the proportion of vegetarians and vegans in the population stays the same, but more and more consider themselves “flexitarians”. They still eat meat but less than before...
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