• An employee inspects mealworms and mealworm beetles at the Micronutris plant in Saint Orens de Gameville, southwestern France. Regis Duvignau / Reuters
    An employee inspects mealworms and mealworm beetles at the Micronutris plant in Saint Orens de Gameville, southwestern France. Regis Duvignau / Reuters
  • An employee inspects crickets at the Micronutris plant in Saint Orens de Gameville, southwestern France. Regis Duvignau / Reuters
    An employee inspects crickets at the Micronutris plant in Saint Orens de Gameville, southwestern France. Regis Duvignau / Reuters
  • An employee holds up a handful of mealworms at the Micronutris plant in Saint Orens de Gameville, southwestern France. Regis Duvignau / Reuters
    An employee holds up a handful of mealworms at the Micronutris plant in Saint Orens de Gameville, southwestern France. Regis Duvignau / Reuters
  • A pack of dehydrated insects are displayed at the Micronutris plant in Saint Orens de Gameville, southwestern France. Regis Duvignau / Reuters
    A pack of dehydrated insects are displayed at the Micronutris plant in Saint Orens de Gameville, southwestern France. Regis Duvignau / Reuters
  • An employee eats a cricket at the Micronutris plant in Saint Orens de Gameville, southwestern France. Regis Duvignau / Reuters
    An employee eats a cricket at the Micronutris plant in Saint Orens de Gameville, southwestern France. Regis Duvignau / Reuters
  • An employee inspects crickets at the Micronutris plant in Saint Orens de Gameville, southwestern France. Regis Duvignau / Reuters
    An employee inspects crickets at the Micronutris plant in Saint Orens de Gameville, southwestern France. Regis Duvignau / Reuters

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In pictures: appetite for making insects edible

Liz Claus

February 26, 2014

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According to France’s Micronutris, the company is the only firm in Europe that raises insects for human consumption.

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