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Major supermarket report says we will be eating termites, crickets, locusts and grasshoppers by 2054

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A mixture of different insects and burgers growns in labs could be meal staples by 2054, according to a study.

The next 30 years will see consumers turn increasingly to laboratory-grown meat cultured from animal tissues – with the potential to reduce emissions, land use and water consumption, researchers from University of York-based FixOurFood programme believe.

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