Insects as food - Beef to get the chop?

IT is probably just as well that all of the predictions made by scientists did not come true or that we did not follow all of their suggestions.

In the 1960s we were assured that crouching under the kitchen table was an appropriate response to a nuclear attack. More recently we were offered iodine tablets to confront such an eventuality.

Dutch scientists have suggested that it will not be too long before meat becomes too expensive for most of us and propose insects as a healthier, more environmentally friendly source of protein.