Why crickets may soon jump onto your dining table

Crickets from Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology’s insect farm. FILE PHOTO | NMG

It used to be that two sorts of people in this part of western Kenya ate crickets: the hungry, and singers who believed consuming the chirping insects would improve their voice.

Times have changed. In recent years the business of rearing insects for human consumption - known as entomophagy - has begun to take off in Kenya.

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