How then shall we eat? Insect-eating attitudes and sustainable foodways

Agriculture and Human Values

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 131-141

  Looy, Heather ^a   Dunkel, Florence V ^b   Wood, John R ^a  

^a THE KING'S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitude change; Culture; Disgust; Edible insects; Entomophagy; Food; Invertebrates; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPODA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84878256703     PISSN: 0889048X     EISSN: 15728366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10460-013-9450-x     Document Type: Article

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