“The black soldier fly protein market is projected to reach $3.96 billion by 2033”
Israeli Firm Raises $14 Million to Develop Black Soldier Fly’ Food Supply.
Last year, it became very apparent that the United Nations, globalist bureaucrats, and climate cultists were going to push to replace traditional protein sources regular people enjoy with insects.
Edible insects are being promoted as a low-fat, high-protein food for people, pets and livestock. According to the U.N., they come with appetizing side benefits: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions and livestock pollution, creating jobs in developing countries and feeding the millions of hungry people in the world.
…Some insects may already be in your food (and this is no fly-in-my-soup joke). Demand for natural food coloring as opposed to artificial dyes is increasing, the agency’s experts say. A red coloring produced from the cochineal, a scaled insect often exported from Peru, already puts the hue in a trendy Italian aperitif and an internationally popular brand of strawberry yogurt. Many pharmaceutical companies also use colorings from insects in their pills
— Leslie Eastman ☥ (@Mutnodjmet) February 16, 2024
Last fall, I reported that Tyson Foods, a major U.S. producer of beef, pork, and chicken, is now making plans to develop products from protein that comes from insects. While the firm’s insect protein is currently planned for animal food, the trend toward human consumption appears evident.
Now comes news that an Israeli firm has just received millions of dollars to develop the product of black soldier fly larvae as a protein source, ostensibly for animal feed as well.
Israeli company FreezeM which specializes in breeding black silver flies has completed a $14.2 million Series A funding round to accelerate the deployment of its flagship product, PauseM.
PauseM provides ready-to-use young larvae of the black soldier fly, which have been “paused” in their growth cycle for 14 days but can be reawakened. By using PauseM, factories can eliminate the need for the fly breeding stage, simplifying their operations. This approach separates the breeding stage from the growth and processing stages, leading to streamlined production, cost savings, and increased efficiency.
This development is expected to lower the barrier to entry for new players in the insect protein market and facilitate the expansion of existing companies.
The company said the black soldier fly protein market is projected to reach $3.96 billion by 2033, addressing global food scarcity and organic waste buildup
…Specifically, the company said that approximately 2,500 units of PauseM, containing about 2.5 kg of young larvae, will convert 80-100 tons of organic waste into about five tons of high-quality protein and about two tons of oil for animal and pet feeding within 14 days, additionally yielding about 20 tons of organic compost for agriculture.
I am all for innovation and research when it comes to expanding food choice options for humans. Interestingly, a study from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem found that black soldier fly oil has anti-inflammatory powers and may alleviate inflammation in conditions like ulcerative colitis.
The team found that the oil from the larvae (BSFL) is abundant in beneficial medium-chain fatty acids that reduce inflammation. By comparing its effects with a specific fatty acid (C12:0), they revealed that BSFL oil uniquely countered inflammation triggered by different immune signals, creating cellular changes that could curb inflammation.
AdvertisementThese findings suggest that the oil, rich in medium-chain fatty acids, holds much promise as an inflammation-regulating agent, offering new avenues for future research and interventions.
However, selling insect protein as a solution to the hysteria generated by climate cultists taints the entire business model. Take for example, the moralistic approach used by another black soldier fly protein development start-up, River Road Research near Buffalo, NY.
River Road Research’s proprietary biotechnology advances a circular economy by tackling two major challenges: food waste and the shrinking biodiversity of ocean life.
Uneaten food makes up a waste stream weighing in at 40 million tons each year. Wasted food in a landfill generates methane, a greenhouse gas (GHG) that is 25 times as potent as carbon dioxide. Products like River Road’s protein meal offer economically viable routes for recovering the energy and resources that go into food production while avoiding GHG emissions.
Aquaculture has been linked to habitat destruction and species loss across the oceans due to the use of conventional, fish-derived feed.
River Road pushes the generation of methane as bad, and a great deal of methane is generated by bovines. How convenient it also supplies a meat-alternative protein source that absolutely nobody wants as a replacement for their steak and hamburgers.
The continued attack on our traditional sources of food and joy must continue to be met with a flyswatter. pic.twitter.com/3jI0sWgp98
— Leslie Eastman ☥ (@Mutnodjmet) February 16, 2024
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I’d rather die.
Readers must consider that the main ingredient of excellent fresh trout dinners are caught using artificial flies for bait.
Where I grew up, garbage was stored in in-ground containers, collected separately from other trash by a local pig farm and fed to pigs after it was boiled to reduce pathogens.
Animal manure is an excellent source of fertilizer and soil conditioning used in organic farming and gardening.
Perhaps the researchers could elaborate on the “organic waste” to be used and how that waste is currently used.
We all understand how the food chain works. Little critters are eaten by bigger creatures, that are eaten by bigger critters, that are eaten by other critters….
I don’t eat grass. But the cows that I eat chews grass.
I don’t eat food waste, but I realize the bacon and pork chips I eat comes from a nasty creature called a pig who dies nuzzle through waste.
I eat sausage and scrapple. I know that these come from parts of animals that normally wouldn’t be eaten in their former state.
By I choose to eat those, not by force.
We also understand that there is a level of roaches and other insects in the food we eat, specifically peanut butter, etc.
But that is not the same as making insects our primary source of anything.
Other cultures can eat all the bugs they like. I had to eat snakes and insects at survival school. But that doesn’t mean I want to eat insects and snakes as a primary food source.
The more that these mud hutters eat insects, that leaves more beef and chicken for me.
I think you are ignorant of pig cleanliness.
https://www.almanac.com/perks-pigs-fun-facts-about-pigs
I’d rather THEY die!
When I was raising chickens I bedded them on dry leaves and sometimes pine shavings. Than went into removable lid plastic 55 gallon barrels to compost. Dead varmints went in
to 5 gallon plastic bucks, maggot buckets. Flies laid their eggs, larva crawled out and fell on the ground, promptly eaten by the chickens.
My maggot buckets are the same as what they are proposing. should be used for illegals and Pales, Pales being freeloaders on Israel and illegals being freeloaders on Americans.
Perhaps this protein
I would prefer that the purveyors of this nonsense die. They can eat the scavengers first.
Yet, you eat shrimp and crab, lol.
By choice, not by force.
And oysters, clams, mussels, etc.
You don’t have much of a point as I wouldn’t eat the things those eat.
Yes, some of this made for animal consumption but let’s keep it that way.
That’s what they want. from you so the Urf can recover from the horrors of “other” people but not themselves unfortunately.
However…………..
https://spectator.org/more-cows-needed-to-reverse-climate-change-experts-say/
More Cows Needed to Reverse Climate Change, Experts Say
Scientists are speaking up for beef.
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And my brother sent me……
Be on the lookout for a new Orwellian term being invented by
the left for further control of our lives. That term is
“residual vehicle” and it refers to a vehicle that the
government has deemed to be irreparable because it’s older
than 15 years. Once declared a “residual vehicle” it will
become illegal to perform “major service” on items such as
engines, transmissions, suspension, brakes, steering, etc…
Such a proposal is now looking to be passed in EU
Parliament. We can be sure the leftist states here in the US
will be sure to follow their lead.
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Residual humans will follow shortly after.
I have my suspicions that most beef from the misnomered US Foods contains lots of insect protein. You can taste the difference and smell it makes when fried is awful.
McDonalds, I am looking at you…
The black soldier, fly-protein market surely refers to the Golden Arches.
Force the malicious malevolent misanthropes pushing this crap the first ones to make it their sole source of protein. Even then, I’m not giving up animal protein. These SOBs want to impoverish us and starve us based on their hare-brained theory about a trace gas that has NOT been scientifically shown to do any damage, and may do much good.
They have no theories but hare-brained ones. They eschew the scientific method for well-financed propaganda, which is aimed at reducing the earth’s population for the benefit of the parasite class.
The parasite class, being neither productive nor well educated (despite the degrees from the Ivies worldwide) fail to grasp the effects of their schemes and believe they will continue to float above society like the scum on a manure pond.
Oh wait….BLUP. Sorry, boys, that was a methane bubble.
Funny how the same people who tell us that eggs are good for us, no bad, uh, sorry, good for us, bad for us, good for us, maybe, kinda, sorta, oh, definitely, um, not really, no, really, really, really, but only if we reduce trans fats, that are good for us, no, bad, uh, good ……..
But they are the credentialed experts….you can’t just reject their pronouncements as to what is/is not ‘good for us’ b/c they keep changing their mind and flip flopping back and forth multiple times within living memory…./S
Correct. When I was younger, I was told that the world would have died of starvation due to global cooling. Yet, here I am 60+ years later waiting for the weather morons to get the snow fall forecast for tomorrow within 6 inches of their prediction.
I recommend black soldier fly protein be fed to illegal aliens until they get so sick of it they turn around and go back home and get some good good. Not one of them appears to be underweight so they must have been eating pretty good before they left home. They also appear to have travelled light. All their clothes are brand new and they carry with them no blankets used to sleep along the way. I doubt they walked here.
Not even huge dollops of bacon or cheese could fix this.
Unless you left out the bugs….
What the…???
I heard the civilian ones are more tender…. 🙂
With a creamier filling, no doubt. 🤢
Using maggots (fly larvae) for fish food sounds like a great idea. Putting them in hamburgers sounds revolting.
Israel? I thought the plans were to destroy Israel
They are doing that all by themselves with this nonsense.
It is beyond embarrassing that an Israeli firm is marketing this stuff.
Apart from the fact that Jews are absolutely prohibited from consuming insects.
They are capitalizing on the marketability of their product, nothing more. They already had this process and its benefits for other uses.
This is capitalism at work.
This is great! We can stop sending corn and wheat (unhealthy carbohydrates!) to Africa, and send them healthy insect protein instead.
Of course someone is going to have to make them stay there and eat the stuff but we can figure that out later
I’m surprised there isn’t more resistance by vegans to eating insects. Insects are animals, and unable to give consent to being eaten.
Or from leftists in general since the lefties operate with a hive mind as well…
I’ve seen this movie, and I guess now I get to live it, whether I want to or not.
Soylent Green is people? You should be so lucky!
Snowpiercer
I’ve read multiple articles on how to make a maggot raising compost heap for your chickens to dine on. Apparently chickens do a a really good job of converting insect protein into more palatable egg and chicken meat protein.
Shrimp, prawns, lobster, and crabs are nothing more than bottom feeding insects of the sea. The fact is, humans eat anything that doesn’t eat them first. 25% of world already eats insects. I’ve heard chocolate-coated honeybees are sweet and delicious. Don’t eat too many of those, we need them for crops.
I am not into moral panics, whether they are on the right or left, and I struggle to care about people eating bugs, since we already do.
If someone comes up with a bug as tasty and meaty as a lobster, I’m in.
oh, and then there are oysters, clams, mussels and scallops, literally the bottom-feeding filters in rivers and oceans. Yeah, lmao, people will eat mussels with garlic butter, but not insects.
What humans need to eat more of: snakehead fish. They are invasive. Hard to catch, too.
Maybe someone needs to come up with a tasty recipe for those stupid stinkbugs, too.
What humans ‘need to do’, at least in the USA, is enjoy their liberty to make their own choices in their diet instead of others of a totalitarian bent telling them they must or should do X instead b/c reasons.
Citizens of other Nations can institute whatever policy they wish and can gain long-term consent to support.
Then YOU eat that shit and leave the rest of us alone.
There isn’t really a moral panic here. As a matter of fact, a lot of people noted this wasn’t for human consumption (what the Israeli company is doing). But there sure as heck is a trend here to try and force us to eat bugs – instead of beef or pork or chicken – because “they’re better for the world” and such. And if you don’t see that, then I might suggest you’re not paying enough attention.
Hard no for me. The availability of it doesn’t bother me if anyone else wants to partake, I don’t concern myself with what anyone else eats or doesn’t.
Indeed. I prefer my insects rare, with e coli on the side. Thank you.
Look like good bluegill bait
Eat the bluegill
There’s an outfit down by TAMU* which produces freeze dried Black Soldier Fly larvae. The chickens love them, they’ll eat them right out of our hands.
Texas A&M University
peta is not quite sure how to handle this but will create a new division within their company:
peti
More like “PETRI”
lefty elites will put on a show on how they too are just like the masses and will consume insects
but not really
That works out to 80-billion pounds, over a population of 8-billion people. That is, an average of 10 pounds per person per year — which is less than 1/2 ounce per day of uneaten food. Yay.
Biomass was going to be the great energy generation system to conquer catastrophic anthropogenic global warming**. That turned out to be a huge, unscalable bust of billions of dollars in investments. Now biomass is going to be the great salvation of diet – again to conquer CAGW.
** Yeah, that’s what they mean by “climate change”. These are people think that weather must be identical year after year after year. The dynamism of the atmosphere is either lost to them, or is deliberately ignored by them in their pursuit of their stake in this $183-billlion annual scam.
“The company said the black soldier fly protein market is projected to reach $3.96 billion by 2033, addressing global food scarcity’
Maybe if we stopped burning food in our gas tanks we could address global food scarcity without resorting to eating bugs.
Just a thought.
The danger of global warming has nothing to do with the environment. The fight against global warming requires that government have control over every aspect of our economy. This would allow the Democrats too transform the USA into they USSR with them ruling a one party state without the constraints of our constitution and fair elections.