Need More Protein? How About Crickets?

Predictions say we'll all be eating bugs by 2030.

I keep seeing advice that women my age need more protein, and it reminded me of some reading I did, years ago, on cricket flours. Apparently, the flours can be used to add extra protein into baked goods, beans & rice, pancakes, and dinner dishes. The description for a bag of 100% cricket powder says: Cricket powder contains twice as much protein as beef, as much calcium as milk, as much Vitamin B12 as salmon, and 17 amino acids, including Lysine. I've seen flavored cricket snacks and cricket protein bars too.

The powder is said to be incredibly high in protein, but requires much fewer resources to raise compared to other types of animal products. And I imagine there is less of a meat-is-murder guilt factor when eating bug protein versus eating beef or pork or poultry. Though that brings up a question: Is it morally better to kill 1 chicken or kill thousands and thousands of bugs?

The practice of eating bugs as food is called entomophagy, and back in 2016, there were predictions that entomophagy would become a totally normal thing in the U.S.. From Scientific American: