People in the United States are slowly moving toward consuming more plant-based foods. A study examining people’s dietary patterns found that between 2019 and 2022, the percentage of consumers who followed some sort of plant-based diet more than doubled. While the consumption of animal products is not going away anytime soon, the marketplace is making plant-based options tastier and more readily available for consumers who want these choices. 

Why, then, is the government spending millions of dollars trying to get people to eat bugs and feed insects to our animals?