Western Standard - September 15, 2023


Canada feds subsidizing bug farms


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163

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There seems to be a push to make us eat bugs, and we re actually paying for it. Oh we sure are. Because we re all paying for some cricket corporate welfare courtesy of the federal government. So we re subsidizing companies that directly turn crickets into human food.

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00:00:00.000 there seems to be a push to make us eat bugs uh we're actually paying for this oh we sure are we
00:00:06.720 sure are taste the crunch everyone because we're all paying for some cricket corporate welfare
00:00:11.520 courtesy of the federal government now you may have heard uh not too long ago that there was
00:00:16.400 this big processing plant in london subsidized to the tune of almost nine million dollars for this
00:00:23.180 like cricket processing plant well now the company says that only 10 percent of uh its crickets or
00:00:29.480 its business is to use crickets for human food however we went through the government's own
00:00:34.620 open data portal to look at some grants and contributions and we found that the federal
00:00:40.260 government has spent more than 420 000 subsidizing companies that directly turn crickets into human
00:00:49.140 food so we are subsidizing corporations presumably for-profit corporations to take crickets and to
00:00:57.360 turn it into human human food for your uh dining pleasure