A new chart from the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University, based on the Canadian Food Sentiment Index, offers a nuanced look at the evolution of Canadian dietary habits. While some observers may see a decline in omnivorous eating as a sign that Canada is becoming a plant-based nation, the data suggests a more fragmented and pragmatic shift in consumer behaviour.
Canada’s multimillion-dollar factory to farm crickets is falling silent amid layoffs. Once dismissed as a “right-wing conspiracy theory,” harvesting insects for human consumption is an emerging policy goal for the worldwide left. Without an understanding of the market, though, such schemes will be a breakfast boondoggle.
“In matters of taste,” a quote attributed to various retail pioneers goes, “the customer is always right.” The first half of the slogan has fallen away in the century since it emerged, truncated to “the customer is always right.” On the matter of serving bugs, the entire phrase is being ignored by those who think they know better.
Canada is home to the largest cricket farm in the world, located in London, Ont.
Aspire Food Group, a leader in insect agriculture, launched its 150,000-square-foot facility in 2022 with much promise. Yet, just two years later, the company has laid off 100 of its 150 employees, raising questions about the viability of insect farming in Canada.
A federal government bill aims to seize power over what Canadians can eat when the World Health Organization (WHO) decides it’s time to declare another ‘pandemic.” And that’s something this menacing globalist outfit seems to be champing at the bit to do.
This tyrannical intrusion on what Canadians will be allowed to consume means meat would be off the menu, and serving alternative vegetable proteins and perhaps insects would be mandated.
A renowned food analyst has sounded the alarm on “pandemic prevention and preparedness” legislation that would regulate meat production on farms and in industrial plants and mandate vegetarian diets in ‘emergencies’.
Endless Emergency state emergencies.
Farmers furious about lab-grown meat are taking their fight to the heart of the European project.
Red meat isn’t actually red. That’s the first lesson I learned in the University of Tor Vergata’s biology lab.
“Meat’s redness comes from the blood, and there’s no blood here,” said Cesare Gargioli, associate professor of biotechnology, as we sat in his office and watched a video of white, translucent noodles spinning off a 3D printer, looking like bleached spaghetti from my grandmother’s pasta machine. But this isn’t something my octogenarian nonna would recognize.
“This is a centimeter of muscle and three layers of fat,” boasted the 52-year-old academic, of the meat he started producing in 2021. “It was our first prototype.” Since then, he’s been trying to boost its visual appeal, shaping it into a patty and introducing dashes of iron and pinches of beetroot extract for color.
Last week the U.S. Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) released a “bombshell” report saying ultra-processed foods (UPF) cannot be causally linked to obesity and that the studies linking the two have been “biased.” Only segments of the report have been made available online.
The DGAC findings inform nutrition labels and public health recommendations for food. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans is a joint report published by Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) from 20 nutrition experts tasked with drafting new national nutrition recommendations for 2026-2031.
Big discussion on X yesterday gave us a window into the WEF’s absolute consternation with we of the knuckle-dragging crowd’s obstinance when it comes to meekly following their dictates.
The World Health Organization (WHO) called on governments around the world to increase taxes on alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs).
After studying taxation rates, the WHO said Tuesday that it believes the average global tax rate on “unhealthy products” was too low, while items such as wine are completely exempt from tax in some European countries.
Sounds like the globalist bug eating agenda is attempting a more subtle approach.
Following the example of cigarette packs, a new study by British researchers argues that graphic warning labels on meat products could successfully nudge meat-lovers towards reconsidering their dietary choices. With apocalyptic images reminiscent of war zones or forest fires, the researchers claim, Brits could be convinced to cut their meat consumption to the levels desired by climate change activist groups and instead get their protein from other, more so called ‘sustainable’ sources, among which, one suspects, insects.
If the federal government is worried about grocery prices now, wait until the global sustainability and climate-related financial disclosures of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) come to Canada.
Among other things, these standards mandate the use of intrusive, burdensome, and expensive CO2 emissions accounting across a company’s entire value chain. For grocery retailers this includes explaining and accounting for emissions in the production, transport, packaging, refrigeration, consumption and disposal of everything they sell. In other words, your grocery store will need to quantify all the emissions of that hamburger meat you bought: whether in producing it (including all steps from farm to processor), transporting it to the store, packaging and refrigerating it at the store, plus your travelling to and from the store, your refrigeration and eventually your cooking of the hamburger, and your disposal of the packaging and any waste of the food.
Companies specializing in the production of cricket-based human food have received substantial subsidies from the federal government amounting to $420,023 since 2018, according to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF).
“Canadians are struggling as inflation pushes up grocery bills, but subsidizing snacks made out of bugs doesn’t sound like the right solution for taxpayers,” Franco Terrazzano, CTF federal director, said in a Sept. 11 news release.
CTF said it “gathered the list of cricket corporate welfare deals by reviewing the federal government’s proactive disclosure of grants and contributions.”
The climate impact of meat is hidden, Bill Gates has warned – but the billionaire believes that plant-based meat is the ‘future’.
Fertiliser and cows are a hidden cause of climate change, Bill Gates has claimed – but plant-based meat is “the future.”
Most people still don’t know how agriculture contributes to climate change, the billionaire claims – specifically the methane emissions from livestock and fertilisers.
“Of all the climate areas, the one that people are probably least aware of is all the fertiliser and cows, and that’s a challenge,” Gates recently said on the latest episode of his podcast, “Unconfuse Me.”
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In a small room near the Alps in northern Italy, containers filled with millions of crickets are stacked on top of each other.
Jumping and chirping loudly – these crickets are about to become food.
The process is simple: they are frozen, boiled, dried, and then pulverised.
Here at the Italian Cricket Farm, the biggest insect farm in the country, about one million crickets are turned into food ingredients every day.
Shares of meat alternatives soared when Beyond Meat, the California-based producer that’s come to epitomize the sector, went public four years ago, but a fall in stock prices suggests that venture capital investments may have gotten ahead of market realities.
Concerns about the meat industry’s environmental impact and carbon footprint have popularized plant-based substitutes in recent years. Market shares show that investors rushed toward the new food trend, but new data suggests that their eyes may have been bigger than their stomachs.
While Beyond Meat was worth more than $14 billion in 2019, it was worth $827.24 million as of Friday. Its shares have fallen about 95 percent over the last four years.
