For more than a week, on Twitter and Facebook, many publications tell us regarding insects. We can read that we will soon be eating insects “without knowing”because the manufacturer will not have to report it on the packaging, and all this, with the permission of the European Commission.
Indeed, on January 3, the European Commission published a new regulation authorizing the marketing of “Acheta domesticus (house crickets) partially defatted as a novel food”.
Basically, this means that we can find this insect powder in products such as bread, pizzas, cereal bars or even beer. In addition to disgusting some, this news has also aroused the indignation of other Internet users who believe that manufacturers or industrialists will be able to do so without specifying it on the label.
But this is completely false! We explain why in the video at the top of this article.
Be strong once morest fake news
OMF Oh My Fake sur Snapchat Discover, it’s the 20 Minutes program that makes you strong once morest fake news, and more broadly invites you to understand the springs and psychological biases that encourage sharing and virality. Beyond knowing if “It’s true or it’s false”, the important thing is rather to understand “Why did we believe it? », by analyzing the mechanisms that make rumours, often fake, attractive to the point that even seasoned minds – like yours! – can succumb to it.
