Betting that eating insects will become mainstream one day, a home-grown venture capital (VC) firm is going big on bugs – by investing in grasshoppers as a food source.
Managing director of Sirius Venture Capital Eugene Wong explained: “A piece of steak only gives you about 40% in protein source. Grasshoppers, on the other hand, gives you about 70% protein with no fats & is healthy.”
With global demand on the rise but resources thinning out, there’s been a revolutionary hunt for more sustainable food sources, as the programme Money Mind discovers (watch episode here).
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