Now companies are already poised to make a massive returns on investment.
Last month The WinePress reported a select group of schools in the United Kingdom would begin to feed students mealworms and other bugs for lunch, as a way to admittedly influence families to drastically reduce their meat production.
Some U.K. Schools Will Now Feed Students Locusts And Worms To Turn Kids Away From Eating Meat
The following report is from PR Newswire:
Human insect consumption – as a nutrient-rich and efficient means to support sustainability and meet climate change targets – has received another boost today as the lesser mealworm (Alphitobius diaperinus) becomes the fourth insect to receive a positive assessment by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) for human consumption.
The EFSA assessment will have to be confirmed by the European Commission, which will give the final authorisation for market approval in the EU following endorsement by the EU Member States authorities, before the product can go more widely on sale across the continent.
This decision comes as great news for global leader in insect farming, Ÿnsect, whose Netherlands operation (formerly Protifarm) submitted the application to EFSA with a view to expanding its activities in Europe in line with the EU’s sustainability goals. Ÿnsect has the infrastructure in place to expand production and distribution immediately once the European Commission’s green light comes.
The race for alternative and sustainable proteins is on as the World Resources Institute predicts a 60% gap between supply and demand for protein by 2050.
While insect approval for human consumption is a relatively new concept, it is one that is already taking off in developing markets. Ÿnsect’s other hero protein, Molitor mealworms, were the first insect authorised by EFSA in January 2021.
In a survey commissioned by Ÿnsect and conducted OnePoll in April 2022 across the UK, US, Netherlands and France, nearly three fifths of all respondents (57%) revealed a willingness to consume insects once the environmental and health benefits had been explained. Moreover, 96% of the 8,326 adults surveyed who had already eaten insects or insect protein said they liked them or would try them again.
The recent assessment by EFSA that lesser mealworms are safe for human consumption is a significant step forward for the company’s expansion. Mealworm protein offers the best of both worlds, as nutritionally beneficial as animal protein, but with a much lower environmental impact.
The scientific community is increasingly rallying around the idea, with a 2022 report by the University of Helsinki suggesting that a diet incorporating large amounts of insect protein offers the optimum solution to reduce environmental impact by over 80% while offering high nutritional benefits to consumers.
Antoine Hubert, CEO, and co-founder of Ÿnsect.
When asked if they thought (human) food manufacturers should make insect proteins more widely incorporated into their products, over three quarters of global survey respondents (79%) said yes, as long as it is clearly indicated on the packaging.
Ÿnsect Human Nutrition & Health already sells ingredients using the lesser mealworm (branded AdalbaPro) that can be found in a variety of products across Europe, including Zirp in more than 800 Bila stores Austria, cereal bars and Issac shakes, and gourmet burgers made from beetles found in several Danish restaurants. The company is now on track to accelerate production to meet the increasing demand across EU markets.
The Media Continues To Push The Need To Adopt Bugs For Our Diet
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
[1] Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; [2] Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; [3] Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. [4] For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: [5] For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.1 Timothy 4:1-5
If you want to eat ze bugz, you do that: but don’t force us to do the same. Even so, we already know that the government is taking very incremental steps to get the masses primed, and have colossal supply ready and waiting – when the supply chain problems are artificially come to the full, and heavy taxes, limits, and restrictions are placed on meats; and fake pandemics lurking; the bugs and lab-grown slop will be rolled out immediately: similarly to how they got the masses to grovel and froth at the mouth for the Covid death shots…
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Scary to see the ole song, “Nobody likes me. Everybody hates me. They can GO EAT WORMS!” come to life!
I have been buying dried meal worms for years and my babies absolutely love them! Every time
I put them out, they immediately come and gobble them up. Of course, I have to walk away before they do because what I call “my babies” are my BACKYARD BIRDS and they are a little skittish!!!! THAT is what likes – and should be eating – meal worms. I can’t stand the smell of them and hold my breath every time I get them out for my birds. I cannot imagine the ignorant mind that would think this a good idea for human consumption. (I have been reading food labels for years so I will have to add another to my list to avoid because there’s no telling where they will try to hide this.)
My biggest angst with this is I hope it doesn’t increase the cost of the meal worms I buy for my babies!
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There’s also human consumption cricket manufacturing getting underway in Canada.
Aspire – London Ontario
https://aspirefg.com/
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Aspire Food Group – which is on a mission to automate and professionalize edible insect farming – aims to start production at a CAD $90m 100,000sqft automated cricket processing facility near London, Ontario, in Q1/Q2 of next year that will produce 10,000 tons of crickets/year in phase one alone,…
When I was a kid there was pizza day, and hot dog day. Now the poor kids between indoctrinational studies are going to be fed bugs. Not much difference from what they will be fed in the lunchroom and what they are being fed in the classroom.
There goes the chicken & bird feed prices. Idiots… & nothing to do with anything but created problems & markets, creating crisis. Was planning on building a mealworm bowl to grow my own, along with the worm composter for fishing worms & fertilizer. They just firmed up my plans.