{"id":31018,"date":"2025-07-03T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T09:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=31018"},"modified":"2025-07-03T09:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T09:24:08","slug":"in-this-pet-kibble-the-bugs-are-a-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=31018","title":{"rendered":"In This Pet Kibble, the Bugs are a Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In an ideal world, Watson would have approached the treats cautiously, with a careful sniff and tentative lick. But, being a dog \u2014 with a voracious appetite and no discernible appreciation for narrative tension \u2014 he devoured them immediately. He didn\u2019t know, or care, that they were chock-full of dried crickets and ground-up grubs.<\/p>\n

And so what I had envisioned as a climactic taste test was over in seconds, with what was, in retrospect, an utterly predictable result: my dog would happily eat insects.<\/p>\n

For years, some enterprising food entrepreneurs have been trying to convince people to do the same. <\/strong>As the global demand for protein grows, insects, they say, provide a more sustainable, ethical alternative to traditional meat. But the idea has been a tough sell. Although insects are a dietary staple in some cultures, for many people, they trigger a visceral disgust response.<\/p>\n

But dogs? If they have a disgust reflex, I haven\u2019t seen it. Insect entrepreneurs looking for open-minded eaters could hardly do better than good old Canis lupus familiaris.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe dogs are not going to overthink it,\u201d said Anne Carlson, the chief executive of Jiminy\u2019s, which makes insect-based pet food and treats.<\/p>\n

Hers is one of many pet food companies trying to remake meat. Earlier this year, the British company Meatly<\/a> sold a limited run of dog treats made with lab-grown chicken. BioCraft Pet Nutrition, in Austria, is working to turn stem cells from mice into food for cats and dogs. And Bond Pet Foods, in the United States, is using yeast to produce animal protein through the process of fermentation.<\/p>\n

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In an ideal world, Watson would have approached the treats cautiously, with a careful sniff and tentative lick. But, being a dog \u2014 with a voracious appetite and no discernible appreciation for narrative tension \u2014 he devoured them immediately. He didn\u2019t know, or care, that they were chock-full of dried crickets and ground-up grubs.And so what I had envisioned as a climactic taste test was over in seconds, with what was, in retrospect, an utterly predictable result: my dog would happily eat insects.For years, some enterprising food entrepreneurs have been trying to convince people to do the same. As the global demand for protein grows, insects, they say, provide a more sustainable, ethical alternative to traditional meat. But the idea has been a tough sell. Although insects are a dietary staple in some cultures, for many people, they trigger a visceral disgust response.But dogs? If they have a disgust reflex, I haven\u2019t seen it. Insect entrepreneurs looking for open-minded eaters could hardly do better than good old Canis lupus familiaris.\u201cThe dogs are not going to overthink it,\u201d said Anne Carlson, the chief executive of Jiminy\u2019s, which makes insect-based pet food and treats.Hers is one of many pet food companies trying to remake meat. Earlier this year, the British company Meatly sold a limited run of dog treats made with lab-grown chicken. BioCraft Pet Nutrition, in Austria, is working to turn stem cells from mice into food for cats and dogs. And Bond Pet Foods, in the United States, is using yeast to produce animal protein through the process of fermentation.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31020,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31021,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31018\/revisions\/31021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}