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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Kathryn Bromwich

Maybe shipworms will be the next calamari, but all the same, I’ll pass

A plate of  edible fried insects as sold at a roadside stall in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand.
‘All you can taste is legs and wings’: a plate of edible fried insects as sold at a roadside stall in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand. Photograph: Mar Photographics/Alamy

A team of scientists at Plymouth University is hoping to set up the world’s first shipworm farm. The marine pests, which they have renamed “naked clams”, are nutritious, high in vitamin B12, and require only wood and water to grow.

It’s wonderful news. We desperately need sustainable sources of protein: meat is responsible for nearly 60% of greenhouse gases from food production, while industrial fish farming has huge environmental costs.

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