In Marcel Dicke’s “Why not eat insects” TED Talk, he talks about an alternative meat source in a growing world. He suggests that. He supports this by saying that insects are more cost efficient, produce less greenhouse gasses, and contain more protein. He says that in 2050, we will have a third more mouths to feed and that we should be concerned about that change. Only 20% of the world’s population aren’t set on adding insects into our diets and that is something Dicke is trying to change. In the presentation, he gives us many supporting reasons for why we are not eating insects yet.

Dicke uses a lot of logos in his presentation. He gave as an example that if we gave 10kg of feed to cows, pigs, chickens, and locusts. In this comparison, the locusts gave the most output being 9kg while a cow only gives 1kg. This supports his next argument on the manure animals do. Why give more feed to less output and more waste when we could be getting more output from feed and much less waste. He said that 1 kg of grasshoppers has the same calories as 10 hotdogs and 6 Big Macs separately. Really makes people think why haven’t. He shows us that developed countries are eating too much meat with approximately 80kg of meat per year is being produced while only 25kg in developing countries. With the increase of livestock, we could face a new virus because of how closely related humans are to animals are there could be a case of a new virus harmful to humans. Because insects are so off from humans their viruses will have no effect on humans. Then he brings up an outbreak that happened in the Netherlands in the 1990s called the swine fever.

Marcel Dicke uses ethos in his presentation letting us know how strongly he supports eating insects by telling him being an ecological entomologist and him wearing a bug shirt. An ecological entomologist is a person that studies a lot of things about insects including their behaviors, chemical, and genetic techniques. That is how we know he means business about this topic, without the presentation even starting. His background. He is assertive about this topic, saying that it is with certainty that we will have to start eating insects in the future, even if we don’t like it. This shows us that he is assertive. Another sign of ethos in Marcel Dicke’s TED Talk. He is working on changing people perception on insects for people that just aren’t used to thinking about this yet.

Marcel Dicke uses some pathos in his presentation. Near the end of his presentation around 13:29, he shows a short video of a Dutch chocolate maker creating deserts, cakes, and pastries with bugs along with some fun music. Another thing Dicke presented at the end he had some guy named Bruno Giussani eat a cake pop with some nice juicy worms on it and got a good reaction from the crowd. He makes a nice joke about why we put balls of meat in our soups when we already have meat in them, referring to how insects still end up in our processed foods. Before this he says that we can increase the productivity of meat only a bit at the expense of rainforests, only by a bit. He encourages us to eat insects and shows some of us in the US are already trying to. An event in Wageningen town in the Netherlands, a country not fully accustomed to eating bugs had 1,750 people together all trying it out at the same moment. Dicke describes this event as big news and believes that soon it will no longer be big news because we will all eat insects, and it has become the norm.

In Dicke’s conclusion, he says that we will soon have to get used to society eating insects and part as our everyday life. We are only hurting ourselves if we continue to remove habitats and produce more greenhouse gases only for just a little boost on productivity. He gave us multiple reasons questioning ourselves why we haven’t made insects apart from our lives when they give more protein and are cost efficient to farm animals. The fact that a kilogram of grasshoppers has the same amount of calories as ten hotdogs or six big macs blows people’s minds away. Marcel Dicke wants to help change the world into eating insects for the future.