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Around 2 billion people eat insects regularly
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Is it true that around 2 billion people eat insects regularly?
Yes. Reliable UN FAO estimates cited in reference sources support the claim that around two billion people eat insects regularly.
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Wikipedia: Entomophagy. (n.d.). Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomophagy
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Notes UN FAO estimates that insects are part of traditional diets of two billion humans.
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Moral Vegetarianism. (n.d.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/vegetarianism/
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