Simon Morton Eats Bugs

Peter Laudrup and Bex de Prospero of Anteater (Alan Yeung)

An insect-based amuse bouche (Supplied)

An insect smorgasbord in Thailand (An-d CC BY-SA 3.0)

A heart bowl of cockroaches (Flickr user Baron Reznick CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Bamboo worms (Takoradee CC BY-SA 3.0)

Insect food stall (Takoradee CC BY-SA 3.0)

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has championed entomophagy - the eating of insects.  With the world's population tipped to reach almost 10 billion by 2050, the UN can see the potential of eating insects to feed an extra 2 billion mouths.  It's not exactly a new idea, we've eaten bugs for thousands of years, and there are nearly 2,000 species of insects eaten around the world today, both cooked and raw.

This Way Up's Simon Morton tried some.