Episode 37 - The Ento Podcast

You're listening to the into podcast and I am your host Ross.

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Todays show is not a usual show as they will start again in the new year, but more of a bio show where we look at at someone leading the way in the Into world.

But before we do that I just want to say hi to some of the latest followers, really think I should have started this when I stared the show back in 2017 but the show is now listed to in too many countries and by too many people for me to start but leave me a comment for todays show at the Ento podcast.co.uk  and you could get a shout out on the next one.

So Hi and thanks for tuning in to Josh Kraut, karl schmieder thanks so much for liking the show.

Ok, as I said earlier todays show is going to be a Bio show and we will be looking at Robert Nathan Allen better known as RNA…and if you don’t know or haven’t heard of RNA then after todays show I need you to go and sit on the naughty step especially if you are a US listener

Robert Nathan Allen (RNA) for me being outside of the US has to be the biggest spokes person.. advocate of entomophagy I know. Don’t get me wrong there are people who have been doing this longer and people who have more publicity but only just started but RNA has been to use a phrase loud and proud about eating insects and their use as feed as long as the UN report.

 

He founded little Herds, has worked for Aspire Foods, co founded Grub tubs and is also involved with the North American Coalition for Insect Agriculture

 

So lets start at the beginning

 

Little Herds - http://www.littleherds.org/

 

Little Herds is an educational nonprofit based in Austin, Texas and they teach kids about insects as a resource efficient, nutritious and delicious food or feed through experiential STEAM based programs; family friendly events; public advocacy outreach; and partnerships with educators, universities and other organizations.

 

STEAM fields are science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics,

 

Their mission is to educate and empower communities, both locally and globally, to support and promote the use of insects for food and feed as an environmentally sound and economically viable source of nutrition.

 

Aspire Foods - Aspire Food Group,

 

Manufactures a variety of food products made from crickets,

 

Aspire are based in the US and in Ghana

 

In the US they raise food-grade crickets on a commercial scale, and are actively working to normalise the consumption of insects in the western world.

 

They use robotics and data collection in their cricket farms in the US enabling them automate the feeding and heating of the livestock and are using the data they have gathered to help them build autonomous robotic systems to farm their insects from hatch-to-harvest.