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Can the West Overcome Its Insectophilia?
In the West, we don’t generally eat insects, or play with them, or keep them as pets. We don’t go on beetle-watching tours, and kids don’t buy insect collecting kits at the dollar store, let alone live creepy-crawlies from vending machines at the local 7-Eleven. But in Japan… they do .
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readIn the West, we don’t generally eat insects, or play with them, or keep them as pets. We don’t go on beetle-watching tours, and kids don’t buy insect collecting kits at the dollar store, let alone live creepy-crawlies from vending machines at the local 7-Eleven. But in Japan… they do.
