Why the U.N. wants you to eat bugs.

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The idea of eating insects may make you lose your appetite, but crickets, termites, and locusts are on the menu for more than 2 billion people worldwide (like this boy in Thailand eating a salted beetle). Now the United Nations wants to get more of us in on the act. According to a new U.N. report, caterpillars and other bugs have more protein than beef, and they're better for the environment because they use up fewer resources. The U.N. sees bugs as a way to feed the world's growing...