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. …
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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The federal government has been handed some much-needed suggestions for how to better engage the agricultural sector in cutting Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions despite tensions with farmers over carbon pricing. In a prebudget submission being publicly released on Tuesday, the nascent organization …
Sylvain Charlebois is a professor of food distribution and policy and the director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University For months now, thousands of Canadians have complained on social media that butter is harder than it used to be and that it doesn’t get softer at room …