The consumption of insects (entomophagy) has recently attracted global attention for health
reasons as well as environmental and economic benefits. Achieving environmentally …

This paper reviews available cross-disciplinary evidence on how culture affects food
security. We discuss the impact of culture on all four dimensions (availability, access and …

A majority of people the world over eat meat, yet many of these same people experience
discomfort when the meat on their plate is linked to the death of animals. We draw on this …

Edible insects have attracted much Western interest in recent years due to their nutritional
and environmental advantages. Consumers, however, remain aversive towards a class of …

Interest in and research on disgust has surged over the past few decades. The field,
however, still lacks a coherent theoretical framework for understanding the evolved function …

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People who are more avoidant of pathogens are more politically conservative, as are
nations with greater parasite stress. In the current research, we test two prominent …

We present, test, and extend a theoretical framework that connects disgust, a powerful basic
human emotion, to political attitudes through psychological mechanisms designed to protect …

Most people both eat animals and care about animals. Research has begun to examine the
psychological processes that allow people to negotiate this “meat paradox.” To understand …

One of the major, if not the major impediment to large scale increases of human insect
consumption, is the strong rejection of insects as food by most of the world's population. In …