The EU wants us to use insects as protein. But is the world ready?

The EU says alternative proteins in human diets can improve nutrition, and ease environmental pressure caused by worldwide breeding of livestock for protein

Conspiracy theories have not deterred the European Commission from its mission to spur transition towards sustainable, healthy and inclusive food systems.

A survey carried out this summer indicated that more than one in three people in Slovakia believed the EU was endangering public health by ordering insect protein to be added to food without consumers knowing.

It was one of a number of conspiracy theories looked into by an Ipsos study for the Central European Digital Media Observatory.