How North America's Largest Cricket Farm Harvests 50 Million A Week | Big Business
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- Here at Entomo farms they harvest 50 million crickets a week and turn them into protein packed foods. Crickets contain more protein than beef and are being heralded as “the food of the future”. We visited their Canada based production facility to see how they turn crickets from bugs to brunch.
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Back in 2016, my highschool biology teacher offered an extra credit assignment where all we had to do was try something made with crickets. I got an Oreo smoothie with the cricket protein powder. It just tasted like a normal milkshake, it was actually pretty good :).
I respect your open mindedness to trying something new. I might...MIGHT. try a powder. But I can never eat them whole, see legs or antenna or anything like that 😭🤢
You’re demented
@@whitemailprivilege2830 you are a mad man
Can I snort it?
@@JuanPablo-pg3vx 🤣🤣🤣
Bruh crickets got better living conditions than most cow and chicken farms 😭
That's the point. It's sustainable
plus they're clean! and away from having diseases, viruses and wounds..
Small animals = less expensive to maintain
@@doriosity5811 thats not what sustainable means, for a production to be called sustainable it must retain certain properties, like not disturb the environment around it etc. A cow needs lots of grass,space,water etc but if insects need heating and extra processing like dehydrating and roasting which all requires energy then how can we compare them? We cant say there arent viruses that can affect us, the studies are not there yet and if high density farming of this sort becomes commercial we may cause possible virus outbreaks or other stuff. Also one thing to point out is that there is a lot of misinformation, the crickets body and most of other insects, is made out of chitin, an anti-diatery matter (like fiber, we cant digest it) soo its not 100% protein. Also there is not the same aminoacid profile in insect protein and other meat proteins. A lot of research is going on in utilizing insects, just I suggest we stay away from misinformation like this video presents. Im not against farming insects, but the science is still early on this one.
@@Niphiz dehydrating cricket is like you make beef jerk. All requires energy to dehydrate. But if you sell fresh raw cricket to panfry or stew etc then dehydrating energy is not accounted for that
In the movie Snowpiercer, people were freaked out that they were actually eating crickets. I guess the only real problem in cricket farming is people accepting them.
Except it was cockroaches not crickets
Whatever the hell the things in those tanks were, they weren't crickets.
Man, You're the reason why i'd clicked this video.
Do not trust those "protein bars"
IIRC, the original draft had Chris look into the big tank and see SHIT. Literal faeces from the front coaches being recycled into the protein bars, and that's why his reaction was so shocking. Later it was changed to insects.
Lol I used to work on a cricket farm. Nastiest workplace I've ever worked in. Came home stankin everyday lol
You know this guy is just trying things with crickets at home. What a legend.
@@Kigoz4Life bruh... lmao
@@Kigoz4Life dude gross
@@Kigoz4Life cricket nipple jewlery
It’s no legend. Just look at Europe. There’s crickets in all the flour. I went to Safeway in Colorado and they were selling several things with crickets in it.
From Germany here. I don't see cricket flour in our super markets.
Im fasting rn this helped
😂
broo i just ate the most delicious steak in my life. i figured you would wanna know that
I just had Futoor, You’re missing my mom’s Homemade Shawarma and Pizza’s
same im fasting
@@vincentsvilks8682 Stfu buddy why u torturing us rn 😂😂
When you have had enough with those invasive bugs diminishing and destroying your farm so then you UNO reverse and eat them back
Comment of the month
That's actually what happened in most asian countries, they can be very invasive, that's why farmer hunt them at night.
@j j Locusts are edible too.
These are a tropical species of cricket. Look at the facility they're bred and raised in. It's covered in snow and ice. This is a cricket farm up north, where they cannot become invasive.
@@Bunny-ns5ni whatever species it is, where ever it’s from, people have already turned it into food already.
How to eat bugs: feed them to the chickens, eat their eggs, and eat their meat.
HELL YEA
Yep. Food chain.
I’m with ya
Billboard: "Check out at our condo, get shredded free!"
Crickets: *what an amazing deal*
Bro this needs to be a meme
To be fair, they don’t live that long
NGL, I kind of want to try this. This isn't the only insect or reptile either.
My first instinct is “disgusting!” However, eating things like shrimp, pigs, etc. can be just as bizarre if you think about it. My only hesitation is it’s something that I’m not used to. Maybe it’s actually a good option 🤷♂️
You have the right spirit
Well the better and safest substitute for crickets are actually locusts. I'd eat em but not the cricket
Now I'm not Jewish but the dietary laws seem to be healthy and personally if we talk about dietary laws of the Bible we were actually never supposed to eat meat, it was an exception for rare emergencies I think. But I'm hardly Christian so what do I know
@@blueridgeocean So using a book that you don't otherwise believe as an excuse to be closed minded when it doesn't even say what you thought it said? Leviticus (both in the Bible and the Torah) specifically says crickets are acceptable (though Jewish tradition says they must have 4 wings and be of a species traditionally eaten: that is not in the Torah, but in more recent teachings).
Here's the text to which you thought you were referring:
20 “‘All flying insects that walk on all fours are to be regarded as unclean by you. 21 There are, however, some flying insects that walk on all fours that you may eat: those that have jointed legs for hopping on the ground. 22 Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket or grasshopper. 23 But all other flying insects that have four legs you are to regard as unclean.
First meal I had with my wife's family her father's driver was seated next to me, thought it was hilarious to keep giving me cicadas. Once I learned to eat those, crickets were awesome: cicadas never really cook up crunchy, I describe it as being more like beef in a popcorn shell. Crickets on the other hand cook up light and crunchy and make a delightful snack! As for locusts, her grandpa always laughs at me when I pull the wings off before eating them, but there's no nutritional value and they just end up caught in your throat or your teeth, so I end up with a plate full of wings when I'm done 😁.
@@wilfdarr I was going off the teachings of a rabbi should he be tossed to the furnace for these "false teachings?" As well as the ones who debate whether or not the turkey is clean to eat? Some say it is but since the turkey is not listed in the lengthy text of clean animals but pass other criteria would it be naive of me to say it's unclean or clean?
Where I live, we also eat insects. But we ate wild grasshoppers from the trees. This is a unique food and the price is quite expensive. The price of 250 grams can be used to eat KFC 4 to 5 times.
Where
Me too..
Uganda
But 1kg would keep you way longer than 3 kfc I imagine?
Grasshoppers and white ants
We used to eat raw white ants when I was younger....they were really good. I'd definitely try these.
hot ultra megababe: "what do you do?"
you: "im in the cricket business"
HUMB: "you're a pro cricket player?"
you: "no, the other kind"
(literally crickets chirrping)
**FARTS LOUD AF**
- Ahahahaahaa ❤ underrated post !!
it's delicious when you don't know what they're made of, especially looking like protein bars
except the protein contains chitin in the exoskeleton cellular walls. Humans don't have chitin proteins in their genetic makeup.
if you want to eat bugs and bug poop, more power to you... don't breathe on me.
@@yapandasoftware except that humans actually do produce chitinase to digest chitin.
@@abcddef2112 Man the human stomach can digest just about anything... but the old adage, "You are what you eat" comes to mind. I'm not so sure that eating bugs wouldn't increase muscle strength and skeletal strength. I'd be interested in seeing the PBTK research conducted over a decade to insectivores.
@@yapandasoftware haha well asians have been eating those for a while and still are, there doesn’t seem to be any adverse reactions. Ancient Roman and Greeks did eat insects too, just the tradition died out in Europe.
I honestly think its just protein, your body digest and absorb what it needs. Though yes theres no long term study on insectivore as far as I know.
@@abcddef2112 it'd be cool when we grow exoskeleton one day
This would be paradise for my gecko...
The crickets would eat your gecko
@End Censorship! animals also eat meat, so that makes no sense
@@Tendeza_ bro no they don't name one animal that eats meat. I mean wolves eat ants bro that why their snout is so long
@Perry Griffith I'm reading your comment, and I'm wondering if you are okay.
@End Censorship! insects are meat
I wonder if every silence in that room is awkward because you can hear crickets in the background ;)
EdIt: OMG THX FOR 194 LIKES!! this IS MY MOST LIKED COMMENT!
Lmao
It's awkward when I'm in the woods and the crickets go silent. So yeah, it makes the hairs standup.
Lol! Nice one!
@@sharpwavethedecepticon6837 thank you!
@@andyoli75 lol
first their like "yeah its better cheaper protein" then at the end "ohh nah its 40 times more expensive"
Cheaper than farming cattle but more expensive than farming grain.
@@flamesofjihad4069 except it isnt if it was what.. $12 for was it 4 oz? i forget. thats roughly $50 a pound.
That is because it is still small-scale relative to the mass production of the other options, but if you scale it up to the same size, crickets become much cheaper than even chicken.
Ale tanie dla biznesu
@@overmangaming4253they are basically asking for some people there to lose their job tho
i remember eating bugs back in elementary and my class mates beat me up for it on the playground, guess who's gonna eat then now!
No one but freaks?...
Um it still weird eating bugs in elementary dude
yup, that sums out almost all the scientists, thats why they are now forcing this shit on us the kind way... :)
Like cooked and prepared or raw?
@@hotpepper2491 wow u just insulted so many countries
the narrator has such a calm and soothing voice, I love it
Yeah, just hear her voice makes me wanna marry her
@@fahmianugrah down bad bro?
She sounds like Hairitage93 on youtube
Here your 100th like sir
The trance-nator using mind control: "eat bugs, you peasants."...while the Controllers eat Wagyu beef.
That hard to describe feeling where something looks disgusting and tasty at the same time
I beg to differ, cockroaches look disgusting not crickets. Crickets, like cattle, are herbivores whereas cockroaches and flies, like rats eat trash and shit.
@@masacatior crickets are omnivore, not herbivore
@@fossufiraito9407 Technically you are right, but I think you got the point. If we extend the comparison to cattle alone (and poultry), pigs and chickens are omnivores too lol
@@masacatior dude they’re insects , awk disgusting people
@@infinityxtanishq8712 what's wrong with rating insects? They're cheaper, economy friendly, and a good source of protein
I will not eat the bugs, I will not live in the pod, I refuse to 'own nothing and be happy'
The one thing they didn't say is how they kill the crickets. The guy took pains to soften the emotional blow "they had a good life... they were gonna die soon anyway". Just in case some tender soul wants to hold a memorial service.
Literally insects. I couldn't care less how they die.
@@hydroaegis6658 Just curious.
They sort them by size via a sorter and drown them.
I imagine drowning or gasing them would work.
@@dennispremoli7950 It would be a bit of an extra step to gas them and then wash them. I am betting they just drown them.
I'm in the UK. The first time I heard about the 'revolution' that is insect-bases diets was around 10 years ago. 10 years later, I'm still hearing the same old lines and still waiting to see something on supermarket shelves.
The EU just recently approved these products as food that can be sold. It takes time I guess.
Think of it like plant milk. Consumer conscience over sustainability, health, and ethics is growing. 10 years ago there was a small corner that contained one or two almond milks, now there’s entire shelves with oat, rice, soy, all sorts. Combine that with the “superfood” trend with fruits like dragonfruit and quinoa and you have pure potential waiting to be untapped
@@isa5104 if you make cheaper than regular foods it'll sell.
This comment was on point! This technology is not new...
i've seen frozen insect burger patties here in germany
in Asia, cricket is already a popular food.
Me, an Asian: No, it’s not.
As an Asian. Have you ever been to some night markets? They usually have tons of scorpions, centipedes or insects fried and grilled for sale at street vendors.
@@chiasmata8625 I'd imagine in poorer rural settings entomophagy would be more commonplace.
@@cryptocorynes1253 funny that you mention that, in rural South Vietnam, we did not eat bugs.
Mean while in an other country of northamerica, Mexico:
I want some crickets with lemon and salt
As an Asian i can confirm that we have been eating insects for awhile :/
I used to work at a cricket food processing plant. It is so gross and disgusting. I used to eat crickets all the time, now I can't even eat any of them I'm so disgusted with crickets. Now I work at a meat processing plant it is so much better I don't have nightmares about crickets no more.
0:39 The narration here was very mindful and soothing. Goes well with the overall theme.
0:42 “they will be turned into a smoothie”
Soylent green. Next.
No
@@ik1111 What are you gonna do, raid the lab?
Anything but smoothies
If you have bugs in your smoothies, you hadn't washed your green leafies enough😅
I'm not going to be eating crickets by the spoonful, but I'd definitely try it in other forms
A crispy crickets is actually pretty good, you should try it once at least.
I thought that the cricket protein power could be cool. Maybe it just seems “trendy” lol.
When they're freeze dried they really just taste like seeds. Would probably be good on a salad
In the Philippines we eat crickets and its so good 👌
The elites want you eating bugs while they're eating filet mignon
Well I'll be spending less on food. It's your choice bro, so chill out
Exactly. NO.
@@슬라바우크라이나헤로 Go ahead and eat bugs for cheap that's what you're so worried about. I'll have real beef thank you.
😂😂😂😂😂
@@슬라바우크라이나헤로 CHITIN is within Crickets and increases parasites, illness and cancer. Stop being apathetic and wake up to the hell we're really living in.
Just imagine if more people had a small scale farm in their backyards. Disposal of food and yard wastes, fertilizer for gardens.
Only us Americans would take pride in our lawn instead of gardens. It's odd to think that in the US we use more water on our lawn than any other crop. 🤦🏾♂️
Oh yea food waste. Rich teens don't give a crap about food waste or any carbon footprint. Having had worked in a restaurant spoiled kids who would dine out with family on the regular never cared to box or finish their food, in particular girls.
@@Tsukiko.97 In general I can understand your sentiment. I despise yards that are purely for looks. Food waste here is absurd.
@@Tsukiko.97 completely agree theirs a saying "soft times breed soft men"
It IS possible in cold climate ...
Big catastrophe for All
végétale in hot climate
country
@XC There are some other solutions that fit in what you said. Aquaponics, Syntropic farming...
Oaxaqueños (mexico): Finally someone appreciate our traditional snack!
Happy Oaxaca noises
Like how the man said "Over crowded planet" yeah ok buddy...plenty of land on the planet that we haven't even touched but the planet is packed tho 👍
Right! Propaganda in my book!
Gross. I'm going to have a steak now.
Narrator: "You may think this is a strange choice of food"
Me, a european: "Ye no this is milder than the weird shit I eat like chicken heart stew or liver paste. It sounds bizarre to some cultures maybe but I like it"
Or Frog smoothie
Chicken heart and liver is normal in SEA
@@mikazukigaw-id5688 cricket also kind of normal at SEA
Don't do it dirty, chicken liver & heart is good
Okay okay, it sounds disgusting; but chicken hearts are actually really good.
I’ve had crickets before. I’ll be honest they’re actually really good, it’s just the fact of knowing that you have an insect in your mouth that makes them hard to eat.
the fact that there insects doesn’t bother me
Insects don't bother me at all: dog, cat, donkey, goat (they're so cute, I love goats), that bothers me, but insects, not at all.
@@fluffycorn_0wO They are. Powdered crickets are everywhere.
Then eat it every day
"You will own nothing
you will live in the pods
you will eat the bugs
and you will be happy."
- Klaus Schwab
No thanx. Unless all of you guys at Business Insider, Klaus, the CEOs of these farming businesses, their investors and the billionaires start eating the protein bars on the daily, I am not convinced.
Well said. I find it so ironic that billionaires and "philanthropist" feasting on stakes dipped in gold keep lecturing us on sustainable food sources.
Buddy if you read the actual paper that's from it just says that we need to invest in more sustainable ways to survive in the future. You got that quote from Alex Jones only reading the title and making up shit based on that.
@@adamd3820 It's like Al Gore flying around the world in a private jet to give lectures on why the plebeians shouldn't drive cars.
@@geoffreybrockmeier3765 and spread the awareness of the man bear pig
There's a HUGH problem with this. Humans aren't suppose to eat bugs! Plain and simple!
I got an itch while watching this and FREAKED OUT!
no
It turns out it was actually a bug.
I work at a pet store and thought this was going to be about them being good for animals 🤦🏽♀️
I know, pretty gross.
@@masonlynch1793 how can you explain why I feel indifferent about it
@@anaveragemedicoreguy1644 you can have your own opinion about it. I was just saying mine.
@@masonlynch1793 Fried crickets is pretty good and also fried grasshopper is even better. Just speaking from experience
Ok, you enjoy that.
When I read their being harvested for food, I thought it was for chickens or pet lizards. I didn't know guys would be straight up eating the damn things.😭😂
Like said in the video, they've been eaten in certain parts of the world for 100s if not 1000s of years. And they can be made into really good tasting food, it's just that in west a lot of people have preconceptions about them and are disgusted to even try. Another point they didn't touch upon in this video are carbon dioxide emissions. I might get the number wrong, but I think I saw another video where they talked about how for the same amount of protein, crickets will emit 80 times less carbon dioxide than cows. That's a pretty big number.
Leroy Please see the movie "Snowpiercer." Seriously.
@3D Gremlin Education? Did I say anything about education? My comment was not any kind of insult, but I guess you want to make it one.
@3D Gremlin Global warming is not a myth bruh 💀
@@VanganPL I am scared of any bug I encounter, so I cannot withstand seeing them, let alone consume.
Insects as a part of omes diet is so foreign to most developed countires and especially in the West. But they are a huge part of so many cultures diet. It's honestly just a matter of stigma and change of mindset. That said, idk if I'm currently brave enough to eat the whole crickets but I'd absolutley try a cricket product, and eventually maybe one day get to eating them whole. But logistically this makes so much sense. People will never stop eating protein, and we biologically need it to survive. But chicken, beef, and pork shouldn't be the only options. There are literally trillions of insects vs us. It really is a no brainer
"In Asia, cricket is already a popular food"
Asians who actually eaten an insect 1%
IKRR
Not around here: around here insects are at every formal dinner, usually cicadas and silkworms (locust, crickets, and scorpions are more for casual dining). And I found the same in Thailand when I was there. Not sure where you get your numbers from, but they don't align with my experience on the ground here.
@@wilfdarr Asia also ncludes the middle east, central asia (you know? former part of soviet, south asia (India, Sri Lanka and the like.)
@@alfonsomartinez7919 If we were studying geology you would be correct, but we're not talking geology, we're taking culture, and NO ONE (except apparently you) understands “Asian” to mean “Middle Eastern”, “South Asian”, or “Asian Pacific”. It's almost exclusivity used as an abbreviation of “East Asian”. And A LOT of East Asians eat insects.
@Arnab Sarker Currently holed up in China, but I'm Canadian.
I would probably eat this as a snack. Crispy cricket + bbq and chili seasoning, perfect
I've tried one and I find it to be a perfectly crispy movie snack like a popcorn would be. You can put different powdered flavors on them and if you're a bit squeamish then eating them on a dark cinema would work wonders on getting that initial disgust out of the way.
@@ofngol they tasted like overfried shrimp
@@ofngol or.....I'll just eat popcorn.
Bruh I was expecting something to do with reptiles when I saw the words cricket and food that close together and y’all just had to go and blindside me with cricket chips.
Bug burgers are the future 🦗🍔
$100 dollars 1 Kilo of cricket flour???? That better be the best cake I'll ever eat
What i was starting to think
@@Fl4kTheTerminator Yeah but if you compare it to protein powder its not that expensive, not to mention that compared to wheat protein its content is more diverse and without allergens.
Cricket flour is protein powder, their nutritional makeup resembles very little of normal wheat flour. IDK why the video used wheat flour as a comparison but not soy or whey protein powder for example.
As british, came here to see 'balls and bats' on ground... got entertained with unexpected things!
Bat and ball baby
Amazing content! Your cricket farming techniques are so detailed and helpful. Thanks for sharing!
Now I know what they are eating at World Economic Forum for their sustainable future.
The 1% eating crickets? No no, they eat and will continue eating what they want, its the rest of the population that will have to sustain on crickets.
Seoshinawi X to doubt. Crickets are just a new option in the westernized world that happens to be sustainable. Insects won't be replacing meat.
@@aspergillusoryzae3722 exactly. It’s an OPTION for people. All the dumbasses in the comments are acting like the government has made crickets the one source of food. Meat is still available, and just like veggie-meat, crickets are another option.
@@AOA9871 the Controllers would never harm the peasants. Animal agriculture is being phased out.
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@@AOA9871 Give it time. Give it time. Soon, they will demand an end to cattle and chicken and pork because of "global warming."
In Mexico we have eaten insects (crickets included) way before the Spanish came. It is a little weird seeing how people gets amazed for knowing you can eat them.
yeah us Spaniards conquered y'all for a reason 😂😂😂
@@mastershadowreaper The reason being bring to america diseases and exploit the native people and lands because you haven't had the same money as other reigns in Europe?
@@montse3139 You were civilized way before the Spanish. Your whole civilization was seeded by "White gods" (your words, not mine) years prior, that's why your upper caste (back then) had lighter skin and blue eyes.
@@KingFluffs My words? Don't believe everything history chanel says.
@@montse3139 Not from the history channel, but from the native leaders.
In Mexico I would get pounds of grasshoppers. With chili and garlic they were my new hot cheetos!! In Mexico they are called Chapulines. Delicious!!!
Amén hermano
It sounds gross, but the way you talk about them makes me want to taste it! One day.
@@ntatenarin there great they taste like those dehydrated shrimp for soup but smaller
@@FVIAX I love shrimp, so Chapulines are up my alley! Thanks for the info. :-)
There’s a Mexican restaurant not far from where I live (US Pacific Northwest) that sells fried crickets as an appetizer. It’s actually pretty good and we get it whenever we go there.
People think eating insects is disgusting.
Many of those same people will eat a red slurry of chicken carcasses filled with preservatives and other garbage that gets food coloring and is deep fried, aka chicken nuggets.
They say insects will be our future food to survive and i think it's a brilliant idea.
finally someone smart in this comment section
Not to survive, just a more sustainable option to add to other animal products.
@Ethereal •Solana• I doubt you can get overloaded in calcium from eating crickets
And the richer people will keep all the meat while we eat insects like morons
@@four_twenty_sixty_nine A peasant will always be a peasant no matter what
Not gonna lie, I can see this being next big thing if we can make a nugget out of it
Cricket nuggets 😋
@@andrebaide1851 Cricket McNugget
McCricket
McDonald's been doing it for decades ❤🍔❤
YOU WILL OWN NOTHING AND BE HAPPY
YOU WILL EAT THE BUGS
Georgy...Lmao, 😂😁
@Perish Joodah every time
I hope this factory doesn't burn down like all the other food processing plants.
I love how people are downvoting like it’s animal abuse.
I don’t think that’s why they’re downvoting the video. It’s because they find the concept of eating insect gross. But for some reason have no problem with the systematic abuse and killing of sentient mammals like cows, pigs and chickens.
It is animal abuse. Crickets are extremely intelligent and feeling insects.
@@DominicNJ73 They literally say that they only harvest the ones that are basically going to die in the next few days. Its not really abuse and those crickets live a fantastic life without harm
If they can make these taste like a prime rib-eye, I’m in.
Same
Yep if they taste like wagyu beef then i'll try it
They can by feeding them to a cow
They can't and they won't. Only prime beef tastes like prime beef.
I will not eat the bugs. I will not live in a pod.
Im grossed out by insect too but the first time i tried, it kinda taste good
@@k.g.b8699 yep, taste kinda like shrimp actually
They will force you to eat it when food production goes bust there are already millions of gen z libtards and third worlders eating them it's just a matter of time
@@patrickbateman1540 i live in the 3rd world and we do not eat insects. Its disgusting.
@@r.a.s6410 i think snails are more disgusting than crickets. I tried fried crickets, didn't like it too much, taste weird but not bad. I could eat it with some rice.
Welcome to your future diet as per the WEF.
👍
That's what they want. Everyone is using buzz words like more sustainable. Someone in here apparently got a BA in how oh so sustainable eating bugs is. I can guarantee they won't be more sustainable though. It will end up costing more, produce far more emissions and producing far less yield, just like "sustainable energy" turned out to be. The left were so mad when Roger Moore, who truly believed in the cause enough to blow the whistle on the alternative energy industry and how inefficient and extra polluting it really was.
"this is merely an alternative, no one is forcing you to eat it"
Well with the increase of bug based food products and more and more regulations on farmers (including things like cow burp and fart taxes) it will soon no longer be a choice
"This is more sustainable, less polluting, and less carbon footprint compared to beef and other meat-based products"
Anything that's industrialized is going to leave carbon footprints. But the main contributor to pollution is not our food, it's the industrial sector and the factories owned by the elites. Now try telling them to contribute more to combating pollution and all you get is an iphone with no charger instead of investing on recycling or a more sustainable but more costly production methods. This kind of measures of switching food source is like taking 10 buckets of water from the sea in an attempt to drain it.
Unfortunately these indoctrinated groups do not realize they are merely pawns in the elites game of shifting the difficulties into the majority while they enjoy all the privileges. Read more about the Fed's quantitative easing to cut down salaries of the middle class in an attempt to preserve their own wealth. This is all part of the agenda, and these folks are supporting it wholeheartedly, free of charge.
It's hard to watch things that looks creepy but tasty at the same time
Honestly same
In a world where people are used to eating insects, eating mammals and seafoods would probably look just as bizarre to them.
If you think about it, shrimp and lobster should be creepy AF. But we can't see it.
They're just a sea cockroaches.
I've actually eaten crickets
They taste like fried fish, its actually delicious
pog.. i sad we dont have criket foods in my country.... they're picky when it comes to food...
That's interesting! I know there's hundreds of different kinds, but ours don't taste anything like fish. I wonder if yours are being fed fish scraps and that's where the flavor is maybe coming from.
Fried fish taste like fried fish too. I'll stick with that while you eat bugs.
I grew up to the music of crickets, but haven't heard one in years. Sad.
@Scumfuck McDoucheface That's because you're not in the USA where pesticides aren't sprayed everywhere.
@Scumfuck McDoucheface Thanks, dude.
I smoke marijuana in my RUclips videos for a living 🔥😂
There was one in my bathroom last night.
@@sycoticpsycho May I have it, please? ;-)
If you think crickets are disgusting, think about shrimp. They're weird and live under water. If you enjoy shrimp and maybe give crickets a try as long as it's not cockroach, it's ok i guess
Shrimps are sea crickets lol
@@cannedprimordialsoup ya lol
I'd honestly prefer a healthy bag of bbq crickets over bbq chips any day.
Ok
I want to try one lmao. Bbq with chili flavor
IF YOU ADD SOME COOL FLAVOUR TO IT, I WILL EAT 'EM ALL!
Brilliant. This is the way of the future! Hopefully lots of cricket flour recipes will follow.
You would actually eat this? I would go out and hunt and eat squirrels before this.
@@masonlynch1793 coward
@@brianqian4497 ok, you can enjoy your cricket bread and protein shakes.
@@masonlynch1793 Hunting is fine. Crickets are more tailored towards folk who want something edible dumped on their front door after pressing some buttons.
@@scohid04 yea, I figured that.
I mean if you eat shrimp or crustaceans, you shouldn’t be grossed out by this IMO.
One is an insect the other isn't. Most people do not like eating insects
@@piggynatorcool668 they're both arthropods
@@cannedprimordialsoup you know what I mean
Insects are the worlds largest reservoir for parasites with about 30% of them pathogenic to humans. Insects are Slave food. You can bet the elites won't be eating them but they want you to do just that while they are flying all over world in their $$$$$$$ Jets and dinning on Coq au Vin. I hope you like your bondage.
Land insects are too far away from shrimps genetically even though they are related. By applying the same logic you could say that eating any mammal is equivalent to cannibalism.
I’m actually starting my own personal cricket farm, because farming crickets is cheaper then buying beef 💪lol
What a noisy ass room, I spent 3 hours hunting one, and seeing this room just makes me wanna use a flamethrower
Hanz, get ze flamethrower!
That would actually be fun to do, but now I realize I might need to reflect on myself because I thought killing 15 million crickets with a flame thrower was fun.
People in Oaxaca make them with a spicy seasoning
Crickets are actually pretty good. I've had them and they leave almost a bread-y aftertaste which isn't bad at all!
then just eat bread
@@byehai Keep telling yourself that sheep when the UN replaces every food product with insects all you will be eating all day are cockroaches and crickets
@@patrickbateman1540 i don't mind eating insect product as long as it's tasty. Vanilla flavors comes from beavers anal glands, so who tf cares
Like it or not, that's our future right there. We're already eating everything out of existence
they got u fooled good, while mark zuckerburg has his own breed of wagyu cows imported to his hawaii bunker they are fooling you into eating bugs lmao
@@themidnightzone172Quiet.
"poor crickets, they have the right to live"
Peta for sure is gonna be angry about this
Yeah, I’m just waiting for the next movement advocating for the life of insects
@@isa5104
They already made a movie about it.
It's called Starship Troopers.
Coming to a Mac Donald's near you...
The cricket burger.
They just gonna slip it in and not tell you..frito lay is talking to cricket folks..to me that's gross
The movie Snowpiercer is slowly coming to reality.
Not really. People have been eating crickets for 3,000 YEARS
That is everyone on social media relate things that have been around for thousands of years with something that just came out in a video game or a movie. Ridiculous.
Eat the bugs, live in the pods. Big brother loves you.
Eat the bugs
Live in the outdoors
Destroythe government
Idk why but her voice was a bit too calm and soft for me
Its because you felt like you were being seduced when really you were being told about eating bugs
I don't care what y'all say that food is not gonna be in a 20km radius of my home
cringe
Me at the beginning: "This is the stupidest thing ever... No way I'm ever trying one"
Halfway through: "Okay it actually kinda makes sense"
By the end: "I MUST TRY! EVERY FARMER SHOULD BE RAISING CRICKETS!"
😅🤜🤛
‘This joint is jumping
It’s really jumping!’😂
When you continue your zerg rush into the late game....
I use them for fishing 🎣
@End Censorship! Stop this forcing 😂 If you can't logically base and prove your opinion, just don't say it in the first place.
@End Censorship! not really tho if you think about it
@End Censorship! Bruh
During high school we had a inter hostel challenge that who could collect the most cricket's...we would collect 1-2 bucketful of cricket , clean them and feast on them either roasted or deep fried . Damn those days 😂
Bro you are Indian.
And Indians don't eat insects.
So don't lie.
Ao kbhi North East India main
@@nischaymiglani2617 abey lodu tu kya mere se jyada janta hain ki main kya khata hu aur kya nhi?
@@ankurparajuli386 toh c*utiye gali dena jaruri tha kya.
Maine toh aram se bola tha.
Aur vaise kya tu assam ka rehne vala hai kya.
Why am I watching this, I will never eat them. Fear factor.
It’s an actual good snack, they’ll have to work on the price like they said to make it sustainable
I agree with this movement, but just can't get past eating them myself 😬
Same. I love this but I'm not there rn for sure.
Hahah same 😩😳
@End Censorship! let's not seek how to separate and have division. We could learn a lot from ants. You don't like it you don't want it very nice that's great! I'm happy for you understanding yourself. But let's not shame somebody curious or on board.
I've tried them and they taste fine, you should give it a go!
@end censorship! I don't mean to make you feel uncomfortable in all your division and disgust. By all means do you the world needs day and night 🤗 anyways maybe one day I'll have the gull to taste it not today though, happy you have no interest. Interesting video still though right? 😏
There are like this in Indonesia,
They just eat it whole and with Syrup
Daerah mana? Aku sih lebih suka belalang
my mama taught me at a very young age to look both ways before crossing the street and not to eat bugs , if you notice we have a whole generation that don't know how to properly cross the street and now they wanna eat bugs too smfh
The most important part is missing: how are they harvested?
Frozen to death mostly
Maybe they run a vaccum through the facility. And then filter the stuff that's vacuumed. The manure is quite small and particle-like compared to the bodies of crickets.
@@amandhingra4947 But how do they sort out the mature crickets ?
@@shatoxhd separate compartments for each batch.
Its smell bad no??? I mean the place where they grow.
I breed and raise crickets, mealworms, fruit flies, and recently wax worms and dubia roaches on a small scale for my pets. You can raise a surprisingly high amount of insects in a very small space if you do it right. I encourage everyone to try it.
Seems that way. I plan to grow crickets for human food (small scale, my home). They seem almost like a superfood and apparently are fairly tasty by itself and not noticeable when powder is mixed in with other flours etc. I eat mostly plant based, but also some occasional fish. But fish are getting over fished, are increasingly toxic and getting more expensive as time goes on. I figure this is a cheaper, easier way to get high quality protein and omega 3 fat with far less toxins. Premade cricket powder is just too expensive as things are now. Seems to range from 38 to 42 US dollars per pound, not including shipping.
Any tips specific to crickets?
@@justinw1765 Crickets tend to dehydrate easily, so keep them with constant access to water. Despite this, they don't like humidity. The drier the enclosure, the better.
As for feeding: any insect safe chicken feed will work, but they will always cannibalize their own, there's no getting around it. If kept in high density populations, you'll lose a good portion due to cannibalism at any stage of development. The more hiding places, the better. I'd recommend keeping several enclosures with crickets to maximize results. This will also help retain genetic diversity, which crashes with crickets over time. Allow females to choose from several egg laying sites. This will prevent eggs from being eaten, and reduce competition. Harmful recessive genes can pop up, as well as loss of fertility. Swap crickets between the bins every other generation. Keep less males than females. A good ratio would be 1:5-10. Male crickets can fight each other, which tires them out, preventing them from breeding efficiently. Make sure to keep them secure, but escapees are inevitable.
And lastly, this one is important to me. Everyone says "cRiCkEtS sMeLl BaD". This is only true if you keep them dirty. I never experienced any kind of bad smells from my colonies, because each enclosure was cleaned after every generation is culled when eggs are removed.
Finally, if you really want to get into cricket breeding, I'll let you know that it takes quite a bit of time to manage them. They're demanding pretty much daily, and colonies can crash very easily. A better alternative would be red runner roaches. Nutritionally, they're similar to crickets. They are significantly easier to raise, and require much less maintenance. They take roughly 3 months to reach adulthood, which is slightly slower than crickets(1-1.5 months), but it's worth it! They don't chirp, can't infest centrally heated homes, females cannot fly(males fly very poorly), they cannot climb very well, cannibalize rarely, have the same care as crickets, and don't need much in the way of genetic diversity. They can survive severe inbreeding for a long time, possibly decades for some colonies. I replaced all my crickets with them, and I'm never going back.
Holy crap
I thought they harvested it for livestocks food... Usually i fed my bird with crickets
Who knows they made snacks cricket for humans
That kind of insects are common food in many countries. Here in México they used to be more common.
Really once dried and spiced it tastes like shrimp.
Btw, china did harvest cokroaches but in a different way, they used the insects to dispose organic trash (earning money from it), then harvesting and selling them as chiken food, being mostly protein it increases quality of meat and eggs.
Quite a good business model.
They're awesome bro
This is what happen when you live in a bubble for too long. Don’t know what to eat other than chicken, cows or pork.
That's y always look for Halal food logo on food......
Guaranteed the rich will continue eating beef, while soon enough crickets will be all us peasants can afford
in my country indonesia. cricket eggs became famous for fishing bait. price per kg 250,000 rupiah or about 17.5 $
Mahal juga ya pak
@@roisanggung951 lagi booming soalnya pak. Biasalah indo
please do you export cricket eggs to your country.
It feels like Snowpiercer: Awful taste of truth 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
Exactly what I was thinking
I feel like the only thing now to change is mindset that eating insects will become the new normal and we should start trying it. Although I'm still repulsed by the idea, I'm slowly trying to accept that in the future, I should start trying buggers little by little
EAT THE BUGS
EAT THE BUGS
My lizard would be in heaven 😂😂😂
My worst nightmare is becoming more realistic the more I live in this cruel world
eat the bugs, live in the pod
When my dad was a lil kid, he would catch crickets, dig a hole in soil, put the crickets in and cover it with more soil. He would then light a fire above the cricket 🦗 hole and within 3 minutes, he'd be snacking on roasted crickets.
That's one way to do it. Not calling him out (they're just crickets after all!) But I feel bad cooking any animal alive (crabs and lobsters too: they get a dash of rum to send them off to the next world before I toss them in the pot) so I freeze my crickets and hoppers before I cook them.
@@wilfdarr ik that but the fresher, the better! And he grew up in 1970s CHINA where freezers don't exist
@@EasonTek Oh ya, fair enough, they were just coming out of the “Great Mistake” at that point!
I can honestly see humans transitioning to eating insects, the main problem is that its way too expensive. Hopefully in the near future they will be cheaper.
I’ll stick with my juicy ribeye but thank you
Probably not