Insects and Sustainability
Farming insects such as crickets is measurably less resource intensive and is completely sustainable. The stats for water usage alone, given that one of the world’s most technologically important areas, California, is running dry, are shocking. For every 15 litres used in cricket farming, 30,000 litres are used in cattle farming.
One cow requires 12 times more feed than the same weight of crickets does. Crickets take up less space too, as they’re smaller, obviously, and are used to living in close proximity to each other. The killing of crickets is more human, as they’re gently cooled down to freezing which puts them into a hibernation state.
Insects and Nutrition
Insects, and in our case, crickets, are extremely nutritious. Crickets contain two to three times more protein than beef. There’s also more iron than spinach, more calcium than milk, more potassium than bananas and more vitamin B12 than fish. And that’s all pretty impressive, right?
Farming insects such as crickets is measurably less resource intensive and is completely sustainable. The stats for water usage alone, given that one of the world’s most technologically important areas, California, is running dry, are shocking. For every 15 litres used in cricket farming, 30,000 litres are used in cattle farming.
One cow requires 12 times more feed than the same weight of crickets does. Crickets take up less space too, as they’re smaller, obviously, and are used to living in close proximity to each other. The killing of crickets is more human, as they’re gently cooled down to freezing which puts them into a hibernation state.
Insects and Nutrition
Insects, and in our case, crickets, are extremely nutritious. Crickets contain two to three times more protein than beef. There’s also more iron than spinach, more calcium than milk, more potassium than bananas and more vitamin B12 than fish. And that’s all pretty impressive, right?
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