Insects UN Says People Should Eat to Fight World Hunger

According to Prisonplanet.com, the "raising of livestock such as cows, pigs and sheep occupies two-thirds of the world’s farmland and generates 20% of all the greenhouse gases driving global warming."

As a result, the United Nations Food Agency, in its 200-page report released Monday says beetles, caterpillars, bees, wasps, ants, grasshoppers, locusts, crickets, cicadas, leaf and planthoppers, scale insects and true bugs, termites, dragonflies and flies are the most commonly eaten insect groups. 

Meanwhile, cbsnews.com reports that the insects contain "good fats", can be rich in calcium, copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, selenium and zinc, and are a source of fiber. 

Insects are rich in high-quality protein and nutrients; when compared with fish and meat, are ''particularly important as a food supplement for undernourished children," FAO said.