I'm wondering about the society of beetles that I have
Entomophagy, relationality, and food system transitions at the household-level
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5284291 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Angela Glaros (0000-0001-8461-2634, University of the Fraser Valley, corresponding author), Alicia Martins (0009-0008-0464-9508, University of Guelph), Alicia Martín (University of Guelph), Katherine Eckert (University of Guelph), Robert Newell (0000-0003-4108-1727, Royal Roads University) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1-24 |
| Publication date | 2025-10-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Food and Foodways (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0740-9710 • E-ISSN: 1542-3484 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07409710.2025.2564488 |
| OpenAlex | W4414881321 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 48 |
Insects are a potential sustainable protein source. To date, scholarship regarding insect consumption in countries without a major history of it has most often focused on consumer acceptance or critically reflected on the industrialized nature of insect farms and processing firms. This article presents the empirical findings of a pilot project that supported seven individuals with no previous experience of insect farming to safely produce mealworms for consumption at home. It explores how raising mealworms affected their confidence and willingness to eat them, their attentiveness and care toward the mealworms, as well as the potential and/or desirability for such production systems to scale up. Household-level production of insects and worms affords a unique opportunity to explore these considerations, as it is both an example of an alternative food practice, as well as an accessible opportunity for individuals to interact with a form of livestock. The research brings together literature from more-than-human geographies and sustainability transitions. It contributes to debates regarding the potential to scale up sustainability-related experiments and considers how the handling of mealworms builds relationships between producers and their mini-livestock.
Food processing · Food security · Food supply · Food systems · Foodways · Animal and Plant Science Education · Insect Utilization and Effects · Organic Food and Agriculture
Consumer perception and behaviour regarding sustainable protein consumption
Embodied connections
Consumer acceptance of cultured meat
The Dynamics of Social Practice
A governance framework to manage the food-environment-livelihood trilemma of alternative proteins
A systematic review on consumer acceptance of alternative proteins
Characterizing alternative food networks in China
Stacking functions
Regenerative agriculture and a more-than-human ethic of care
Governing food futures
Impossible solutions
Urban Agriculture in the Food‐Disabling City
Minilivestock’ farming
Using thematic analysis in psychology
Why farm the city? Theorizing urban agriculture through a lens of metabolic rift
Should we go "home" to eat
The combine will tell the truth
Making insects tick
Magical disruption? Alternative protein and the promise of de-materialization
Framing the future of food
Compost Politics
Multispecies Studies
Toward a Theory of Social Practices
Modes of Eating and Phased Routinisation
Conventional versus Alternative Agriculture
Food crises, food regimes and food movements
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |