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.

Some of the countries in Africa eat
insects
as food or snacks or edibles actually some believe
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part of a healthy diet. It has been a
controversal
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controversial
argument amongst the country's citizens . Most African governments where infect not able to come to a conclusion if they should approve it as part of a healthy diet or just eat it as food. So whoever eats them
it
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prerogative.At the same time under the same blanket
Insects
are good for our environmental cleansing in as much as they might taste good to others, they need to be considerate of our
nature
. They need to be preserved. A good
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example is my home
counrty
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country
county
Zimbabwe, we have
people
who eat the Mopani worms, infect
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a certain tribe called the Ndebele
people
, those are the
people
that introduced it to the rest of the other tribes, I have tried and tested the Mopani worms, they are so delicious I
woudn't
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wouldn't
mind having them as an edible but because of the love
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have for
nature
to the point that
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feel like
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very unfair for us
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humans to eat
insects
hence
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would
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the
people
not to eat them and sort for other edibles. 1992 was a challenging year for my nation,
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we experienced a severe drought and because of drought there was famine, it was so terrible,
people
had to sort food from
nature
and
insects
were the only meat available, our
people
started eating
insects
and it had a very negative impact on
nature
to the point that in 1993 when it rained, the
people
could not harvest their produce well because there
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no
insects
to help with the recycling of
nature
, that was terrible.
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a big role in
nature
, the equation of
nature
is not complete if there are no
insects
. In
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I want to encourage everyone to look after
nature
by not eating
insects
even if there is a famine.
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