Imperial College London
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Dr C M (Tilly) Collins

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Centre for Environmental Policy

Senior Teaching Fellow
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 9301t.collins Website

 
 
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Location

 

110aWeeks BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@inbook{McDade:2019:10.5772/intechopen.88245,
author = {McDade, H and Collins, C},
booktitle = {Edible Insects},
doi = {10.5772/intechopen.88245},
editor = {Mikkola},
publisher = {IntechOpen},
title = {How might we overcome ‘Western’ resistance to eating insects?},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.88245},
year = {2019}
}
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RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - CHAP
AB  - Entomophagy, the consumption of insects as a food source, occurs at a global scale with over 2 billion people seeing it as traditional. This practice does not extend into mainstream Western culture where its introduction is often met by a range of barriers, leaving entomophagy often seen as a taboo. The ‘disgust response’ of food neophobia and a lack of social and cultural contexts that reduce adoption may be overcome by strategic application of tools arising from innovation diffusion theory: relative advantage; compatibility; low complexity; trialability and observability. This chapter accessibly reviews known barriers to uptake and outlines the potential application of these concepts in promoting the wider acceptance of entomophagy.
AU  - McDade,H
AU  - Collins,C
DO  - 10.5772/intechopen.88245
PB  - IntechOpen
PY  - 2019///
SN  - 978-1-78985-636-1
TI  - How might we overcome ‘Western’ resistance to eating insects?
T1  - Edible Insects
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.88245
UR  - https://www.intechopen.com/online-first/how-might-we-overcome-western-resistance-to-eating-insects
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/72917
ER  -
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