The dirt roads leading to the village were unusually empty. All the locals were holed up inside their homes. Alarmed, the officers patrolling the village informed their boss, Rema Rajeshwari, at a police station in Telangana state in south India. It was surprising to see villagers hiding, she recalls. But why were they hiding? “It was like a self-imposed curfew,” Rajeshwari says.

A video that had been circulating in this village in Jogulamba Gadwal district and hundreds of other villages in Telangana had everyone spooked. “First of all, this was a remote village and my boys were surprised almost everyone had a smartphone — Chinese smartphones — and mobile data,” Rajeshwari says. She ordered the officers to collect the videos, and they gathered about 135 — plus voice messages and photos — from the villagers’ phones. Some videos were in Hindi, and some were in the regional languages of Kannada and Telugu. Many were fake.

With 400 villages under her jurisdiction, in two districts of Telangana, Rajeshwari assigned officers to go door-to-door to warn villagers against these fake videos and fake news.

When Kieran Read, captain of New Zealand’s national rugby team, announced in March that he would soon leave to play for a little-known rugby club in Japan, it sent shockwaves through the sport’s most successful nation.

His body beaten up from years competing at the pinnacle of professional rugby, the 33-year-old will play for Toyota Verblitz in Japan later this year. That means he can no longer play for New Zealand’s national team, the All Blacks, because of a rule that bars foreign-based players from representing the country. And Read is far from the only player making that choice.

For several years now, eating insects has been touted as the next big way to save the planet, with many media outlets trumpeting the insect-eating revolution. And for good reason. Rich in protein and fiber and with similar levels of fatty acids as those found in fish, insects such as mealworms, caterpillars and crickets, among hundreds of others, are healthy food options. Raising insects also produces far less greenhouse gas emissions and uses much less water than beef, chicken or pork. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has argued that if people could get over the “disgust factor,” a strong edible-insect industry could reduce world hunger and malnutrition. In 2015, Oct. 23 was declared World Edible Insect Day.

Mexico is a natural to be at the forefront of the insect-eating revolution, which has an estimated global market worth of $607.5 million. According to the FAO, Mexico has the greatest variety of edible insects in the world and its bug-eating tradition dates back to precolonial times. But that’s not enough to make an industry. According to a report by market research firm Meticulous Research, Mexico has 29 percent of the world's edible insect species, but its share of the industry is just 1.7 percent.