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Crickets on your dinner plate? This London start up is betting on it

Bugs: You won’t find many of them in Canadian cuisine. Place them on a restaurant menu and the response might just be – ahem – crickets. This start up is betting that crickets – and insect protein, broadly – can soon play a much larger role in making North America’s food system more sustainable.

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Crickets on your dinner plate? This London start up is betting on it
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    Crickets on the menu: Ontario startup bets insect protein will make our food system more sustainable

    Crickets on the menu: Ontario startup bets insect protein will make our food system more sustainable

    Bugs: You won’t find many of them in Canadian cuisine. Place them on a restaurant menu and the response might just be – ahem – crickets. But Mohammed Ashour bets crickets can soon play a much larger role. His startup, Aspire Food Group, is building a highly automated processing plant in London, Ont. …

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