From scorpion skewers to cricket flour, bug protein is becoming big business

Mongabay
Jan 3, 2020, 2:04 pm207 pts
LOC NINH DISTRICT, Vietnam — A spade strikes the bone-dry Cambodian dirt with a crunch, and the hunt is on. Chem Wai, a lanky, deeply tanned 53-year-old former soldier, has been collecting wild tarantulas and scorpions for most of his life. Wai knows this scruffy forest, located 20 miles north of Siem Reap…

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