Bowl Games
2022; Oxford University Press; Volume: 68; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/ae/tmac006
ISSN2155-9902
Autores ResumoBRIEFLY PAUSING MY CANDY-SNACKING TO PRESENT MY POWERPOINT, I TALKED ABOUT THE HISTORY AND PRACTICE OF HUMAN ENTOMOPHAGY, THE NUTRITIONAL VALUE OF INSECTS, THE ECOLOGICAL ADVANTAGES OF REPLACING VERTEBRATE LIVESTOCK WITH INSECT LIVESTOCK, AND THE CHALLENGES OF MASS-REARING INSECTS. Over the course of my career, I’ve never done much consulting for parivate companies, in part because I’ve always thought it was important to avoid any actual or perceived conflict of interest, but also because my natural impulse to overshare irrelevant information runs counter to the spirit of confidentiality agreements. By the way, did you know there’s an entire body of literature about oversharing, or, as Blackhart et al. (2015) calls it, “self-control depletion”? In any case, about ten years ago, I received an invitation that curiosity prevented me from turning down. On 23 June 2011, an e-mail message appeared in my inbox from Johannes Paul Schlebusch, identified in his signature block as “Dr.-Ing. Johannes P. Schlebusch, Disruptive Innovation, R&D, DPTA, IP Site Coordinator, Mars GmbH,” with the subject line, “MARS workshop on proteins/would you be interested in participating?” Reading further dispelled any notions I might briefly have harbored about carbon-based extraterrestrial life, but instead revealed something much better—an opportunity to visit the corporate headquarters of Mars, Inc., the company responsible for M&Ms, Milky Way bars, Skittles, Snickers, and Twix, to participate in a workshop about the potential use of arthropod-derived proteins in pet food.
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