{"id":67515,"date":"2018-11-17T01:01:16","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T00:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/11\/17\/bug-grub-sainsburys-to-stock-edible-insects-on-shelves-in-a-uk-first\/"},"modified":"2018-11-17T01:01:16","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T00:01:16","slug":"bug-grub-sainsburys-to-stock-edible-insects-on-shelves-in-a-uk-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=67515","title":{"rendered":"Bug grub: Sainsbury&#039;s to stock edible insects on shelves in a UK first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Supermarket will start selling roasted crickets in 250 of its stores from MondayBarbecued bugs are are going on the shelves of British supermarkets as Sainsbury\u2019s becomes the first big UK grocer to stock edible insects.The retailer will start selling roasted crickets \u2013 described as \u201ccrunchy in texture with a rich smoky flavour\u201d \u2013 in 250 of its stores from Monday, capitalising on the growing prominence of bush tucker in the global warming debate. The damaging environmental impact of global meat production has spurred interest in bugs \u2013 which can be bred in significant numbers without taking up large amounts of land, water or feed \u2013 as an alternative, sustainable food source. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2018\/nov\/17\/bug-grub-sainsburys-to-stock-edible-insects-on-shelves-in-a-uk-first\" target=\"_blank\">Bug grub: Sainsbury&#039;s to stock edible insects on shelves in a UK first<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supermarket will start selling roasted crickets in 250 of its stores from MondayBarbecued bugs are are going on the shelves of British supermarkets as Sainsbury\u2019s becomes the first big UK grocer to stock edible insects.The retailer will start selling roasted crickets \u2013 described as \u201ccrunchy in texture with a rich [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}