Eating Insects Has Long Made Sense in Africa. The World Must Catch Up

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Eating Insects Has Long Made Sense in Africa. The World Must Catch Up.

Scientists have long proposed insects as feed or foodstuff for animals. But views about entomophagy differ widely: food conscious lobbies and scientists promote insects as novel foods while at the other extreme people view eating insects as crazy. Between those two extremes are communities that have been practising entomophagy for ages.

Most edible insects are harvested from the wild. Little effort has been put into how they could be mass produced and used as a source of protein more generally. To do this, it’s important that the biodiversity of edible insects is understood better, and that indigenous knowledge is uncovered.

From 'Me & the Bees Lemonade' to Flower Bombing, Are US Honey Bees Recovering?

From 'Me & the Bees Lemonade' to Flower Bombing, Are US Honey Bees Recovering?

Eye | Malia Obama Interns On 'Girls' | Persecuted Gays In Kenya Await Obama | Hudson Joins Kors To Fight World Hunger

New York Met’s China Exhibition Extended To Labor Day

With over 500,000 visitors already viewing ‘China Through the Looking Glass’ at New York’s Metropolitan Museum, the China show is expected to surpass ‘Alexander McQueen’s Savage Beauty’ as the largest exhibition yet at the Met. The exhibition is now extended thru Labor Day September 7.

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Malia Obama Interns In Manhattan

The Presidential first daughter Malia Obama dined at La Esquina on Tuesday night, a guest of former White House chef and food policy adviser Sam Kass and his wife MSNBC host Alex Wagner. Vogue profiled the couple in Wagner and Sam Kass — Politics’ It Couple.

Malia is interning at HBO, working with Lena Dunham on ‘Girls’. Rumours are flying that Malia will likely make a cameo appearance at some point in Season 5. Don’t be deceived by the glam possibility. Malia, who just turned 17, has been spotted getting coffee for the cast and crew and keeping people away from the production set — typical intern duties.

Last summer Malia worked as a production assistant for Halle Berry’s CBS show ‘Extant’. Malia will graduate from private Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC next year and is expected to pursue a career in film and movie production. She has visited New York University, known for their excellent film school, Columbia University (her father’s alma mater) on the East Coast and Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley on the West Coast.

President Obama Heads to Kenya & Ethiopia

Malia, sister Sasha and mom First Lady Michelle Obama Obama will not be joining dad POTUS today on his brief trip to Kenya and Ethiopia. The President will be traveling with his National Security adviser Susan Rice and staff, with decision’s on how to deal with Kenya’s growing anti-gay stance looming as a difficult topic for Obama to navigate.

Politico reminds us that as the US has grown more tolerant during the Obama presidency, African countries have imposed increasingly harsher laws on gays and lesbians. Despite their vehement denials of non-interference, ample evidence exists that the anti-homosexual agenda in Africa has been fueled by America’s right-wing Christians. AOC has covered this topic for years.

Briefing reporters ahead of the trip on Wednesday, National Security Adviser Susan Rice didn’t bring up gay rights until prompted. “I have no doubt that the president will feel perfectly free to raise his concerns,” she said. But she was careful to convey that Obama isn’t singling out any country or region. “This is not for us an issue of Africa, or any country in Africa,” she said.

A “nonissue” that’s not on the agenda is how Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta referred to LGBT rights ahead of Obama’s visit, but his No. 2, William Ruto, was among several politicians and clergymen who’ve railed against homosexuality at Sunday services in recent weeks. Another lawmaker said he would tell Obama to “shut up” if he brings it up.

Eat Me Maybe

Fashion PR Aisle 8 pro Jade Jackman (l), founder of luxury cake service Eat Me Maybe didn’t dream of being a baker, in spite of inhaling smells of her Bajan grandmother’s culinary gifts. Previously of MyWardrobe and Harrods, Jackman is now baking for major fashion and beauty clients including Burberry, Maybelline, L’Oreal and more. 

Set up by Jackman and friend Andrea Gamble, Eat Me Maybe, the women have a culinary hit in the making. For now, their baking means long days and late nights into the night.  

I love that I get to work with my best friend and create incredible bespoke cakes which can literally make somebody’s birthday or even wedding,” Jackman added. “Being a part of such a happy memory is very rewarding. The worst part of what we do is that we sometimes have to decline orders because we are so busy with work or have too many to make - we can’t really complain about that though! via Vogue UK

Hudson Joins Kors To Fight World Hunger

From the Michael Kors website:

Bringing her signature sense of optimism, generosity and glamour to the table, Kate Hudson will join Michael Kors and Watch Hunger Stop to help build a world with zero hunger by raising awareness and funds for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).

Kicking off in October 2015, the Golden Globe-winning and Academy Award-nominated actress’ first philanthropic role for Michael Kors will be helping to launch two limited-edition styles of the Bradshaw watch as part of this year’s Watch Hunger Stop campaign. Every sale of one of these special styles, named the Bradshaw 100, will enable 100 children in need to receive a nutritious meal through WFP’s School Meals program.* The watches will be available exclusively in Michael Kors stores worldwide and on michaelkors.com in the U.S.

“I’m proud to join Michael Kors in this global effort to end hunger,” says Kate Hudson. “As a mother, I can’t think of anything more important than raising a healthy and educated generation of children, and WFP’s School Meals Program is committed to exactly that. This is a cause that I’m eager to be a part of because I believe we can all make a real and significant difference.”

Since launching the Michael Kors Watch Hunger Stop campaign in 2013, the $25 donation for every watch sold has helped WFP deliver more than 10 million meals to poor children worldwide.

Mustafah Abdulaziz Documents Daily Reality Of Global Water Shortage

Mustafah Abdulaziz Documents Daily Reality Of Global Water Shortage

Photographer Mustafah Abdulaziz currently lives in Berlin and shares these images focused on global water scarcity with Ignant. Abdulaziz was born in New York City in 1986 and worked as the first contract photographer for The Wall Street Journal. In August 2014 MilkMade.com asked Mustafah Abdulaziz 10 questions, with an emphasis on his ‘Water’ project.

Globally, fetching water is primarily women’s work. Water.org writes:

Glass ceilings aside, millions of women are prohibited from accomplishing little more than survival. Not because of a lack of ambition, or ability, but because of a lack of safe water and adequate sanitation. Millions of women and children in the developing world spend untold hours daily, collecting water from distant, often polluted sources, then return to their villages carrying their filled 40 pound jerry cans on their backs.

An estimated 200 million hours are spent each day collecting water.

The project ‘Water’ spans water issues in 32 countries, with support from the UN, Water Aid, VSCO and others. These images focus on the scarcity of water in Ethiopia and Pakistan.