Ottawas große Wette auf die größte Cricketfarm der Welt stieß auf ein einfaches Problem: den „Igitt-Faktor“

no one saw that coming

It was a scam

They built it here knowing there are no food shortages and there is a clear abundance of food choices. Everyone knew there was no demand.

They also built it here to attract gullible investors and govt subsidies to appeal to people who had money to burn and wanted to make some difference

I hate when my ideas run into pesky reality.

>Even if they were willing, she said, crickets aren’t cheap. A 454-gram bag of cricket powder can retail for $49.99 — more than even premium cuts of beef on a per-pound basis.

>“It’s a premium product,“ Mollaei said. „It’s not cheaper. The selling point has never been a lower price, it’s the fact it’s better for the environment and it’s a healthy product.“

Powdered bugs are a premium product? Sure whatever you say lady.

I’d take the premium beef cut, 11 times out of 10. So would most other people apparently.

Funny how the yuck factor matters for crickets but the intense exploitation and death of billions of farm animals, dismembered for people to eat, is normalized. 

The investors heard crickets