To meet the growing needs of food for the increasing population, country should make use of edible insects as foods. However, some people believe that insects are not only unhealthy but affect negatively the nature too. What are the benefits and drawbacks of eating insects? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

In general, there is a threat of having a scarcity of
food
with a rapidly increasing population globally and each country has to start making edible
insects
as
food
.
However
, some people tend to believe that consuming
insects
is not only unhealthy for people but will endanger the environment too. Despite
of
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having conclusions by people on
this
global topic, there are, indeed, have both benefits and drawbacks on it.
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hand,
insects
can give
a vast variations
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of nutrients to humans. Mostly, proteins
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the
first
place of it and even an average grasshopper have
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amount of protein.
Hence
,
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making the use of edible
insects
as foods could definitely end
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hunger, starting from Ethiopian countries. Another instance from
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perspective, certainly, high income can be made out of
this
since
insect
farming does not take a huge space and resources.
Therefore
, there are benefits
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using edible
insects
as
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.
On the other hand
,
insects
are not as much of cleanliness species as other animals we already consume by now and we cannot expect fully clean
food
out an
insect
body as well.
For instance
, sometimes even ants have parasites within their body and unless we saw before cooking somehow,
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won't
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to human eyes.
As a result
of that, humans after consuming edible
insects
might end up having illnesses.
Moreover
, even though Anthropoda,
insects
kingdom is known to be the biggest in
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kingdom so far, with the longterm edible
insect
consumption would be threatening to
insect
population and those
insects
related
food
chain in the environment natural processes hugely. In conclusion, there are equivalent reasons to think of
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both benefits and drawbacks
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before
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making edible
insects
as
food
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