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As we know, in Europe people are not ready to eat crickets contrarily to Asia were crickets are a "normal" food. To know why European are not ready to eat crickets we realized a survey which we sent to our contacts. They forwarded it to their own contacts again. In approximately 3 days, we collected 282 answers. Below you can observe the result of our survey as well as the link to answer the survey.
Experiences
To have the most precise results as possible, we wanted to know the breakdown between women and men. So 189 women and 93 men had responded to our survey.
For the same reason as before we wanted to know the age of the persons who answered. So the majority of people, i.e. 114 persons are between 15 and 20. 49 persons between 40-50, 36 persons between 50-60, 22 persons between 30-40, 18 persons between 10-15, 16 persons are more than 60 years old, 13 persons between 20-25, 11 persons between 25 and 30 and to conclude 3 persons who are younger than 10 years old.
Out of 282 persons, 222 had never eaten insects whereas 60 persons had already.
Out of 282 persons, 109 persons (more than a third) would be ready to eat insects. So we can see that even if some people had never eaten insects they are ready to try.
More than a half (143 persons) would not eat insects, 118 persons are ready to eat some occasionnally, 14 persons would eat that often and only 7 all the time.
This question is to know if the practice of sports could influence the answers for the next question.
The argument that crickets have a better protein intake does not make people change their opinion. Indeed only 83 persons would change their mind with this argument.
Apparently the argument about the environment seems to be more efficient than protein intake as more than half of the people would be able to eat crickets if it is better for the environment.
Psychological aspects
If you have not answered the survey yet, you still can do : just click on
We can see that 50% of people who answered "never" are not ready because of appearance. Some people said that they would taste before eating, some are not ready either because of prejudices or their culture.
We can conclude that for the moment the first step would be that people who are not ready to eat insects forget their prejudices. Maybe it would be good to create some awareness campaign to show all advantages of this type of food.
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