Posted on 10/27/2020 10:45:15 AM PDT by SJackson
The farm will produce mealworms as a low-carbon protein source.
About an hour north of Paris, the world’s largest insect farm is being constructed. The new farm could help to provide a low-carbon source of alternative protein.
While some are looking for ways to introduce them directly into our diet, the company behind the farm, Ÿnsect is focusing on ways to use insects to shrink the environmental footprint of agriculture.
The farmers believe that insects are a sustainable way to replace other animal proteins in the supply chain, by using them to feed fish and livestock or in pet food. The waste produced by the hundreds of millions of insects can then be used to fertilise crops.
“Our ambition is to revolutionise the food chain which, literally, starts from the basics: insects and soil,” says Antoine Hubert, co-founder, president and CEO of Ÿnsect. “It concerns all of us, whether we are meat lovers or vegans because it is how our plants and animals are fed.”
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The company claims that by cultivating mealworms in their vertical farm, they can use 98 per cent less land and significantly reduce the carbon and biodiversity impacts of protein production.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (UN FAO) predicts that by 2050, food production will have to grow by 70 per cent to meet the rising demands of growing global populations and increasing wealth. Most of the available land for farming is already being used, which means more innovative, sustainable solutions will need to be used for everyone to be fed.
The project has some big backers too and Marvel star Robert Downey Jr. is one of them. He has launched an initiative to clean up the planet using artificial intelligence and technology, called the Footprint Coalition which has invested in the farm.
One of the uses for the company’s insect protein is for feeding fish. Farmed species, including salmon and prawns, are often fed using wild caught fish which puts more strain on the stocks left in our oceans. Soy is another option but imports of the protein-rich bean have been linked to illegal deforestation.
“Ÿnsect isn’t just about insect farming: with climate change and increasing populations worldwide, we need to produce more food with less available land and fewer resources, so that we’re not clearing forests and emptying our oceans,” concludes Hubert.
That bugs me.
Gross!!
The French will invent a sauce for them. Related, I won't be eating these.
BELGIAN RESEARCHERS SERVE UP WAFFLES MADE OF INSECTS
Larger than the DNC?
Larger than the DNC?
Mealworms! That’s what’s for dinner!
No!!!
The mosques are all much smaller.
THE WORLD’S LARGEST INSECT FARM IS BEING BUILT IN FRANCE
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Bigger than Washington DC?
I suppose they’ll have a subsidiary plant to grow
Gagh for Klingons.
Nobody likes me, everybody hates me
I think I’ll go eat worms!
Big fat juicy ones
Eensie weensy squeensy ones
See how they wiggle and squirm!
[Verse 1]
Down goes the first one, down goes the second one
Oh how they wiggle and squirm!
Up comes the first one, up comes the second one
Oh how they wiggle and squirm!
[Verse 2]
I bite off the heads, and suck out the juice
And throw the skins away!
Nobody knows how fat I grow
On worms three times a day!
[Chorus]
Nobody likes me, everybody hates me
I think I’ll go eat worms!
Big fat juicy ones
Eensie weensy squeensy ones
See how they wiggle and squirm!
Um, not thanks. I stick to a nice juicy steak. 8>)
They already eat snails.
Better put up some windmills, you’re gonna need a lot of bird repellent!
Watch and see. Soon there will be a new word for BUG or INSECT. A trade term for culinary products sold in America.
Something benign, inoffensive, even pleasant sounding.
Meal-Wings?
Meal-Babies?
Meal-Flowers?
Fishmeal is the strip mining equivalent of the ocean. It leaves vast swaths of barren ocean floor where the trawl nets have been dragged. This fish is then ground into fishmeal to feed other fish in cages so people can have farm raised salmon or shrimp. Using insect protein for fish food is just good science and it saves our oceans from being strip mined by the chicoms and other Asian fish farmers. Feeding the protein to chickens and pigs also cuts down on soybean farming which uses massive amounts of fertilizer and pesticides all of which run off into our water sources. Ultimately leading to the giant dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico again messing up our seafood catches. This kind of high density protein farming is win win for the environment and the consumer. They have done testing the protien is so high quality it cuts the mortality rates of the farmed fish by a significant margin which should help lower costs. These worms grow in agricultural wastes such as wheat straw or rice bran and their casings are compost ready to be put back on the fields as high quality organic fertilizer. People don’t have to eat the worms to benefit. Feeding them to things we like to eat is plenty good for all involved.
It will simply be listed as ground protein meal on the ingredient list. No legal need to identify the source of the protein once it’s in dry powder purified form it’s amino acid protein meal by chemical composition and will be identified as such. If you eat shiny candies like jelly beans or candied peanuts ect with confectioner’s glaze then you are eating in its unrefined form shellac bug shell excretions. Pharmaceutical glaze the coatings that make pills shiny and easy to swallow yup shellac bugs as well.
Gag a maggot!
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