How the frenzy over farming insects for food went bust.

Bowls of ants, grasshoppers, ant eggs, white cricket, giant water beetle, bamboo caterpillar and silkworm are arranged at Insects In The Backyard restaurant at Changchui market in Bangkok, Thailand, ...

Skyrocketing input costs are forcing livestock producers to find other ways to provide protein to flocks. Insects might be a ...

A new bill moving through the state legislature is looking to make it easier for shoppers to differentiate between traditional meat products and those which are lab-grown. House Bill 471 passed ...

Senator Dawn Driscoll, a Republican from Williamsburg, is chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee. (official photo) The Iowa Senate has voted to establish fines for food processors that sell ...

About 200 years ago, the lobster was regarded by most Americans as a filthy, bottom-feeding scavenger unfit for consumption by civilized people. Frequently ground up and used as fertilizer, the ...

A new report from the British investment bank Barclays predicts that edible insects are poised to be one of the next big food trends in the West, much like raw fish before it — and the insect protein ...

If you’ve ever had a hankering to taste Iowa-fried cicadas, you’ll have your chance this weekend. Ginny Mitchell, education program coordinator at the Iowa State University Insect Zoo, says one ...