Author: Ilena Peng

For their first attempt at making food from insects, Sean Warner and Patrick Pittaluga started with a bug burger. Their patty, which combines black beans and black soldier fly larvae, was cooked in their Georgia Tech apartment shortly after the United Nations published an influential report in 2013 touting insects as the future of food, a natural resources that will contribute to rising meat costs and climate concerns as the global population grows. But bug burgers didn’t taste good, and soon the entrepreneurs pivoted their Grubbly Farms brand to focus on insect-based food for dogs and chickens. The pivot from…

(Bloomberg) — For their first attempt at making food from insects, Sean Warner and Patrick Pittaluga started with a bug burger.Their patty, which combines black beans and black soldier fly larvae, was cooked in their Georgia Tech apartment shortly after the United Nations published an influential report in 2013 touting insects as the future of food, a natural resources that will contribute to rising meat costs and climate concerns as the global population grows.But bug burgers didn’t taste good, and soon the entrepreneurs pivoted their Grubbly Farms brand to focus on insect-based food for dogs and chickens.The pivot from feeding…