Posted on 10/19/2023 5:58:52 AM PDT by Red Badger
Tyson Foods announced it had invested in insect-protein supplier Protix and plans to build a partnership US production facility.
“The American meatpacker said Tuesday that it agreed to buy a stake in Dongen, Netherlands-based Protix BV to help fund its expansion. The companies will also form a joint venture to build and operate a US facility that will produce bug-based meal and oil, which are typically used in fish feed and dog food. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed,” Bloomberg reported.
The meat giant did not disclose the size of its minority stake it has taken in Protix.
Protix is a Netherlands-based company that produces ingredients based on insects.
Tyson Foods said:
“The strategic investment will support the growth of the emerging insect-ingredient industry and expand the use of insect-ingredient solutions to create more efficient sustainable proteins and lipids for use in the global food system.”
“It’s a multibillion-dollar industry opportunity that has tremendous growth potential, and we see Protix as being a leader there,” Tyson CFO John Tyson said in an interview.
“In the long run, insect-protein inclusion in animal-feed diets can be a real thing that exists and can be one that is good for people, planet and animals.”
Protix is already a main supplier of insect-based protein to pet food makers Nestle SA and Mars Inc.
“It is definitely a huge way to establish ourselves into an international context,” Protix CEO Kees Aarts said.
He added the deal with Tyson is a “tipping point we have been working for.”
Aarts said the US plant will be ready in 2025.
He also added that the new facility would be four times larger than its existing facility in the Netherlands.
It appears the World Economic Forum and major corporations are slowly resetting the global food supply chain.
As The Daily Fetched has previously reported, the WEF has been advocating bug-eating for years now.
In January, the European Union gave the green light for an additional two insect species to be used for human consumption.
The Acheta domesticus, better known as the house cricket, has been approved for human consumption within the European Union, according to documents.
Here is what The World Economic Forum writes on its website:
“The world’s population will reach 9.7 billion people by 2050. This means that despite only 4% of arable land on the surface of our planet, an additional 2 billion more humans will have to be fed.
To address this impending crisis, world experts and leaders will meet this autumn at the UN Food Summit and then the COP26. Often overlooked in these discussions is the potential role insects can play in helping meet this challenge.
Insects are a credible and efficient alternative protein source requiring fewer resources than conventional breeding.
Studies suggest that for the same amount of protein produced, insects, mealworms, in particular, require much less land than other sources of animal proteins. A study on crickets suggests they are twice as efficient in converting feed to meat as chicken, at least four times more efficient than pigs and 12 times more efficient than cattle.
Today, 12% of the world’s wild whole-fish catch is used for farmed fish in the form of fishmeal. An alternative to fishmeal can be the products resulting from the processing of insects such as the Tenebrio Molitor.
It has been shown that with mealworm, mortality in farmed fish is reduced by 40%.
Insect protein has high-quality properties and can be used as an alternative source of protein throughout the food chain, from feed for aquaculture to ingredients for nutritional supplements for humans and pets. All animal species, regardless of their diet, eat insects in their natural diet.”
WELL..!! Just because I've been retired for 17 YEARS is NO reason to dis me and make me eat BUGS..! (Sorry, but I'm a little sensitive about how lazy I've become recently).
WARNING: THIS FOOD WAS PROCESSED BY MACHINERY USED TO PROCESS INSECTS USED FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION. IT MAY CONTAIN INSECT PARTS IN EXCESS OF CURRENT FDA LIMITATIONS.
More likely those vegetarian douchebags pushing this will get THEIR label prioritized:
WARNING: THIS FOOD WAS PROCESSED BY MACHINERY USED TO PROCESS ANIMAL TISSUE USED FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION. IT MAY CONTAIN ANIMAL TISSUE IN EXCESS OF CURRENT FDA LIMITATIONS.
Meat consumption is the new "Smoking".
Right now, we should be testing bug recipes at the “refugee asylums” poppin’ up in all of the “border towns” (a little liberal lingo there) like Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.
Americans won't simply fall in line and take their cup of bug-gruel. At least, not the ones with brains.
Yep, me too. I also read that all of the earth’s population could,fit into Texas with room to spars (not that we wouod want to of course, but just to put into perspective how much land there is compared to people)
The 9nly reason that there is supposedly only 4% arable,land is because a,vast majority of it is off limits to man’s use, ie parks, nature preserves, “forever wild” areas, etc etc e5c
Sautéed Humming bird tongues seasoned with a touch of mosquito wings........... scrumptious
Crunchy Frog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy6uLfermPU
I am listening to John Cleese’s book “So, Anyway...” and it is hilarious!
Love Monty Python...”Crunchy Frog”!
Figures. The company that bankrolled Bill and Hitlery!
For your more elegant dining experiences: Cricket croquettes and Grasshopper ganache
You’re making me hungry
I think it’s brilliant actually. Perhaps we never see this in America. But could end up being a way to finally beat the hunger in places like Africa and other poor areas.
“NO NO NO NO NO, seriously my wife and I will now be actively boycotting personally Tyson foods!”
Same here. This concept needs to be nipped in the bud now. I refuse to help finance or entertain this concept in any form or fashion. They will indeed be putting it in their products without our knowledge before it is over.
But it does absolutely no good to boycott without contacting them and telling them why. This is another one of those cases where activism in mass would actually have an effect. Boycott and contact them why in mass...
https://www.tysonfoods.com/contact-us
“The only reason that there is supposedly only 4% arable,land is because a,vast majority of it is off limits to man’s use,”
Yep, and most of that arable land here in the US is preoccupied with growing corn for use as mandated ethanol fuel additive instead of growing food.
I will pass on eating bugs. What fools, “Romans 1:22, Professing to be wise; they became fools.”
This story bugs me.
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