This, to me, is a very powerful message. I like stuff like this because it uses pictures to communicate, not just words.
The fact is, this is true. I don't know the numbers on how fast entomophagy (isn't that a cool word?) is declining, but this follows the same pattern as western missionaries: walk in, make everyone dress and behave like westerners, approve of their existence, walk out and leave them to starve on a culture that is incompatible with their environment.
So what's being said here? Western philosophies about our environment and how we should interact with it is causing people to stop eating foods (that are actually foods!) and start living in a way that is unsustainable. We've known for years that America's appetite is sinfully excessive, and that if the rest of the world tried to reach our level of consumption we'd self-destruct faster than an agent's mission instructions. (I know that America is not the only member of the "West," but it is the only one I know enough about to have this conversation.)
At one point, it would have taken six planet earths to feed, clothe, house, and accessorize every nation to the level that America had attained. And since then, both America's consumption and the global population have increased significantly, increasing the gap between what America says is possible and what is actually possible.
There we go, telling lies again....
And yes, insects are both food and good food. As is algae. And the sooner the West recognizes that we can't escape the fall by being speciesists, the better off everyone will be.
