Beetles, caterpillars and wasps could supplement diets around the world as an environmentally friendly food source if only Western consumers could get over their "disgust", the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said on Monday. "The main message is really: 'Eat insects'", Eva Mueller, director of forest economics at the FAO, told a press conference in Rome. "Insects are abundant and they are a valuable source of protein and minerals," she said.

Beetles, caterpillars and wasps could supplement diets around the world as an environmentally friendly food source if only Western consumers could get over their "disgust", the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said on Monday. "The main message is really: 'Eat insects'", Eva Mueller, director of forest economics at the FAO, told a press conference in Rome. "Insects are abundant and they are a valuable source of protein and minerals," she said.

Fisheries ministers in the Maritimes say they plan to sit down and examine the pricing structure for lobsters as fishermen continue to tie up their boats to protest slumping prices. Nova Scotia Fisheries Minister Sterling Belliveau said Monday he is trying to set up a meeting with his counterparts from P.E.I. and New Brunswick later this week. Belliveau met with fishermen from throughout Nova Scotia to come up with ways to resolve the ongoing dispute, get fishermen back on the water and probe a pricing system that has frustrated lobster harvesters for years.

HALIFAX - Hundreds of lobster boats remained tied up at wharfs throughout the Maritimes on Friday as fishermen and processors struggle with an industry beset by an oversupply of the crustaceans, rock-bottom prices and a strong Canadian dollar. The fishermen's association in P.E.I. said boats did not head out for a third day in a row over prices that dipped to about $2.75 a pound for small canner lobsters and $3.25 a pound for the larger, market ones.