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Bugs for Dinner: Big Cricket Farms Find Niche in Edible Insect Farming

April 16, 2015 Rose Egelhoff SeedStock Kevin Bachhuber. Courtesy of Big Cricket Farms Rich in protein and requiring relatively few resources to raise, the United Nations says insects should be on our plates. Though bugs make up part of a healthy, diverse diet in many non-Western cultures, Americans and Europeans generally consider eating insects …

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We’ve Cleared an Area the Size of South America to Grow Enough Crops to Feed The World’s Population

Janaki Jitchotvisut Apr 3, 2015 First We Feast How will we continue to feed the world’s growing population? Where is our food going to come from in 2050? These are both valid questions with many different answers. Collectively.org’s eye-opening new short documentary America’s Shrinking Farms aims to raise awareness of the issues, and possible solutions, in play right now. The …

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Cricket Farmer Says Consumers Developing Taste For Insects

2015 – Volume #39, Issue #1, Page #08 Farm Show Cricket Farmer Says Consumers Developing Taste For Insects Could crickets be coming to a grocery store near you? Maybe, says Kevin Bachhuber, owner of Big Cricket Farms in Youngstown, Ohio. While most of the producers who raise crickets sell them for bait and animal feed, Bachhuber raises …

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America’s Shrinking Farms Trailer

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Are Insects the Next Climate-Friendly Superfood?

By Anastasia Pantsios Ecowatch.com March 19th, 2015 Maybe you’ve see little cans of chocolate-covered ants or grasshoppers in the exotic food section of your grocery and thought to yourself, “Yuck—who eats that?” Insects may not come to mind when you think of superfoods. But they could be the next hot “alternative” protein. They’re low in …

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Grub to Gourmet

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A Bug’s Life

Issue: March/April 2015 By Sheehan Hannan IB Mag Maybe it was the hot dog they rode in on — or the India pale ale that washed it all down. Somehow, at Suzie’s Dogs and Drafts in downtown Youngstown, being served crickets won’t prompt a call to the health inspector. In fact, they’re one of the …

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Was Wirtschaft treibt: Lecker Grillen-Kekse

By Steffan Heuer Brand Eins February 20th, 2015 „Ich habe ein grundsätzliches Problem mit Leuten, die mich aus Kalifornien anrufen, Geld investieren wollen und mir dann etwas von Dingen wie Disruption und Scaling up erzählen wollen“, sagt Kevin Bachhuber. Landwirtschaft, erzählt er seinen Gesprächspartnern dann, sei das genaue Gegenteil von dem, was man im Silicon Valley …

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Can Cinnamon-Infused Crickets Save the Rust Belt?

By Tom Moroney December 5, 2014, 4:00 AM CST Bloomberg Just after 8 on a cloudy October morning, Cody Schultz is off to work, slicing through America’s definitive post-industrial squalor, a two-mile drive that weaves past a sad museum of abandoned homes and steel factories sprouting weedy windows and the broken doors of a lost …

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Inside The Edible Insect Industrial Complex

ANYA HOFFMAN 11.03.14 8:00 AM Fast Company Each morning after arriving at his office in Youngstown, Ohio, Kevin Bachhuber steps into the 5,000-square-foot warehouse and listens to his crickets chirping. The owner and founder of Big Cricket Farms, which raises insects exclusively for human consumption, Bachhuber knows that the frequency and sound of crickets’ chirps …

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