Insects for Dinner?

Which sentence explicitly states who recently recommended that everyone around the world should ear more bugs?

• Unlike larger animals such as cattle, insects don’t emit high levels of green-house gasses like

  methane.

• Depending on where you live in the world, you may already choose to eat insects regularly.

• In fact, there are quite a few compelling reasons the United Nations recently recommend that everyone around the world eat more bugs!

• Because insect farming requires less resources, it is easier to get an insect business started.

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Which sentence explicitly reveals an easy way to humanely put insects down?

• Keep in freezer for 1-2 hours to humanely put down.

• Legally, many food products are allowed to a have a small percentage of insect in them.

• Because insect farming requires less resources, it is easier to get an insect business started.

• But with insects, we eat the whole animal.

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Based on the statement, "Insects are more easily digestible in humans than other protein sources", I can infer.....

• that starting an insect business is easy

• that animal protein sources are wasteful

• that there are many creative ways to make insect dishes

• that insects make better food options than other protein sources, like chicken and beef

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Find a piece of evidence to support the following inference: Animal protein sources are very wasteful

• Legally, many food products are allowed to a have a small percentage of insect in them.

• When we eat other animals like cows or chickens, we typically only eat the muscle tissue, leaving out the heart, liver, and other internal organs.

• Some of the most consumed insects include beetles, caterpillars, bees, wasps, ants, grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets.

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Which piece of evidence does NOT support the inference that insects make better food than other protein sources like chicken and beef

• Raising animals or growing crops requires lots of land and water. Farming insects uses a much

  lower amount of these resources.

• Unlike larger animals such as cattle, insects don’t emit high levels of green-house gasses like

  methane.

• Some of the most consumed insects include beetles, caterpillars, bees, wasps, ants, grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets.

• Insects are more easily digestible in humans than other protein sources.

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Find the sentence that explicitly explains why it is relatively easy to start an insect business

• Greenhouse gasses form a blanket around the earth that causes temperatures to rise, leading to major environmental disasters like sea level rise and more intense storms.

• Insects are more easily digestible in humans than other protein sources.

• Because insect farming requires less resources, it is easier to get an insect business started.

• Moreover, insect farming can open up economic opportunity for people living in poorer parts of the world.

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Find TWO pieces of evidence that support the following inference: Some people are working on extremely creative ways to make insects appetizing

• You can already find granola bars and protein bars that use cricket flour so cleverly that you’d

  never even realize what you were eating.

• Insects are more easily digestible in humans than other protein sources. 5

• But with insects, we eat the whole animal.

• And people are experimenting with using insects to make delicious burgers.

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Based on this statement, "Legally, many food products are allowed to a have a small percentage of insect in them", I can infer...

• 0. Animal protein sources (excluding insects) are very wasteful.

• 5. that you’ve probably consumed

     insects in some form without even knowing it.

• 1. it is relatively easy to start an insect business.

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What does "explicitly" mean?

• I've never heard this word before

• unclear

• inference

• stated clearly and in detail

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The statement, "Greenhouse gasses form a blanket around the earth that causes temperatures to rise, leading to major environmental disasters like sea level rise and more intense storms" supports...

• 1. why greenhouse gases are a problem

• 1. why it is relatively easy to start an insect business

• 1. that there's an easy way to humanely put insects down

• 1. that everyone around the world should eat more bugs

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