{"id":1429,"date":"2024-06-04T09:52:53","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T13:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/anthropology\/?p=1429"},"modified":"2024-06-04T09:52:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T13:52:53","slug":"cortni-borgerson-featured-in-grists-cicadas-a-la-carte-why-its-so-hard-to-get-americans-to-eat-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/anthropology\/2024\/06\/04\/cortni-borgerson-featured-in-grists-cicadas-a-la-carte-why-its-so-hard-to-get-americans-to-eat-bugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortni Borgerson featured in Grist\u2019s \u201cCicadas \u00e0 la carte? Why it\u2019s so hard to get Americans to eat bugs.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Climate-focused media organization <em>Grist<\/em> features <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/profilepages\/view_profile.php?username=borgersonc\">Cortni Borgerson<\/a>, associate professor of Anthropology, in its recent article \u201cCicadas \u00e0 la carte? Why it\u2019s so hard to get Americans to eat bugs.\u201d With the help of Dr. Borgerson, <em>Grist<\/em> explores the preconceptions surrounding eating insects in the United States and counters it with the nutritional benefits of doing so.<\/p>\n<p>About 30 percent of people globally eat insects in some way. Despite that this dietary practice traces back a thousand years and has an abundance of nutritional benefits, it is considered a foreign and even \u201cuncivilized\u201d concept.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Borgerson\u2019s research explores the relationship between humans and unsustainable hunting, human health, and food security. With <em>Grist<\/em>, she destigmatizes the idea of eating insects, even comparing the taste of cicadas to a delightful blend between chicken nuggets and sunflower seeds.<\/p>\n<p>According to Dr. Borgerson, \u201cSome insects have an incredible opportunity, and a potential, to reduce our carbon footprint in a delicious, but sustainable, way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/culture\/cicadas-a-la-carte-heres-why-its-so-hard-to-get-americans-to-eat-bugs\/\">Read \u201cCicadas \u00e0 la carte? Why it&#8217;s so hard to get Americans to eat bugs.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Written by Sarah Ramirez<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate-focused media organization Grist features Cortni Borgerson, associate professor of Anthropology, in its recent article \u201cCicadas \u00e0 la carte? Why it\u2019s so hard to get Americans to eat bugs.\u201d With the help of Dr. Borgerson, Grist explores the preconceptions surrounding eating insects in the United States and counters it with the nutritional benefits of doing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anthropology","category-faculty-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1431,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions\/1431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}