Saturday, September 26, 2015

Crickets for dinner



The UN says that 20 percent of the world’s consumers eat insects. Very few live in the West. But there are people here who hope that will change and crickets will be as popular as kale

Currently, in the U.S. there are four large producers of crickets. The largest one is Big Cricket Farms. Here's a quote from the CEO of the company,
“At any one time there are about 6 million crickets in the facility. My demand has been so robust that over the summer I finished getting a secondary facility up and running. That one probably carries between 4 to 8 million crickets at any given time. The crickets are sold four weeks before they’re finished being raised … so we’ve had to be selective at times about who ends up with our crickets. I’ve raised my prices maybe six times so far.”
Do you believe him?

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