Omar Luzier
Appearances
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: Saving Thailand's street dogs
First one, it means worm in Tunisia, and that's what we're breeding. We have an easy pronunciation that everyone pretty much in the world can easily pronounce.
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: Saving Thailand's street dogs
So we do the reproduction of the worms that later become beetles. And you have either some dried mealworms, some protein powder, or even like hopefully having some pet food in the future as well.
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: Saving Thailand's street dogs
Hunger and malnutrition with climate change, they kind of work hand in hand, like they cannot be disconnected. If we look at agriculture and land use, they're responsible of like 15 to 20 percent of through their digestion. And so that has a big impact on the climate change and like the heating of the planet.
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: Saving Thailand's street dogs
If you look at Africa, a lot of people are starving because they cannot afford to buy these products. So we're presenting here an alternative source of protein. And if we look at soybeans, for example, that is being used as a big source of protein in the world, it represents six to 7% of global agriculture land. And we're trying to replace that. We're trying to free up more space
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: Saving Thailand's street dogs
Exactly. Globally, we have more than 2 billion people that already eat insects. Asia, parts of Africa, even like in Latin America, a lot of people already eat insects.