What are the advantages of eating insects over eating meat?

As the other answers have mentioned there are a number environmental benefits; they produce less methane, use less space, feed and water than beef. On top of these there are the nutritional benefits e. read more

All the advantages of eating insect meat over the more conventional animal meats can be surpassed far more quickly, and realistically, by using a vegan diet. A vegan diet requires no effort to get mentally ready to eat insects, it takes no effort to build an insect industry, and can be readily achieved anytime with fruits, vegetables, nuts and vegan meat all of which are already available in shops and supermarkets. read more

In most insect-eating societies, mini livestock make up a sizable portion of the needed daily dose of protein, calcium, zinc and iron. 2. Insects release fewer greenhouse gases than traditional livestock. Rearing traditional livestock accounts for 18% of greenhouse gas emissions (pdf, p .63), which trumps emissions by the transportation industry. read more

On the other hand 10kg of feed will produce 9kg of insects of which over 95% can be eaten! The financial benefits of this are extremely positive. Not only does it cost far less money to produce edible insects in terms of feed, but the feed to meat ratio is far more superior. On top of this because insects are cold-blooded they use far less energy than cattle and chicken to keep themselves warm. read more