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Notre système alimentaire actuel approche de sa date de péremption. Il nous faut un changement pour être durables. Vous avez peut-être entendu parler d'alternatives à la viande comme les burgers de protéines végétales ultra-transformés à 24 ingrédients, ou la viande cultivée en laboratoire au prix exorbitant. Il existe une façon plus simple d'être durable dès maintenant. Elle s'appelle la protéine de grillon.

There’s one question you have been asking us a lot lately: why is cricket flour so expensive? We have been asking ourselves the same question since we founded Sens. Our effort to make cricket flour cheaper was one of the main reasons we started our own farm. Let’s take a quick look at why cricket flour is still expensive and what will it take to make it cheaper than any other protein source.

Cricket protein is as nutritious as high-end beef but its production requires 12x less feed, 15x less land, 2000x less water and creates 100x less greenhouse gasses. It’s an opportunity to do something for our health and our environment. Not everyone knows how to include this new food into a regular diet. Let’s take a look at five easy ways to do that.

Maintenant que vous savez à quoi ressemble notre ferme, concentrons-nous sur ses habitants les plus importants : les grillons. Nous allons parcourir tout le cycle de vie d'un grillon dans notre ferme, de l'incubation jusqu'à l'âge adulte.

We want to take you on a tour of our own farm that we set up in Thailand. We have been talking about it for a long time so it’s time you took a look inside. There’s a lot to learn about how cricket flour is made so let’s start right away with what our farm actually looks like inside.

