Naturalist Gordon Plague of the Science Center of New Hampshire has called for Americans to eat more insects, stating, "If people in this country started eating more insects then it would obviously cut down on the need for beef and for chicken and other meats. And so when that demand went down it would actually also lower the prices of those foods."

Plague pointed out, "we also eat things, worse things, that are relatives of insects like lobsters and shrimp, which are also crustaceans like insects, but for some reason ... don't have that stigma." Nevertheless, Plague admitted that getting Americans to eat more insects would require a "sales job."

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