Talk about garbage in, garbage out.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) began funding research into trash-fed crickets as an alternative to conventional and “unsustainable” protein production in July 2023, a federal grant listing shows.

The $130,000 grant supports research that “addresses the need for more cost-efficient production of crickets as a sustainable protein source,” according to the listing. Specifically, the grant will support research into using municipal landfill waste to feed crickets that will later be harvested for human consumption.

USDA awarded the grant to Mighty Cricket Inc., a private firm that sells cricket flour, cricket protein powder and cricket oatmeal. The agency believes that using landfill waste to feed crickets could help the firm “procure cricket feed at lower cost than what is available on the market,” leading to savings that could then be passed along to the consumer.

Ah yes that convenient word sustainability that our environmentalist overlords use to justify such research like this while working to shut down American farms and ranchers in hopes of restricting the food supply so that people will one day become enlightened and eat ze bugs. But the expectation will be that the average American will be expected to eat these trash-fed vermin while Joe Biden and his elite friends live high off the hog with plenty of meat and other protein products.

If you think such sentiments are tin-foil hat territory, consider that it was unfathomable years ago that school administrators would groom kids or states would attempt to steal children from their parents in an effort to destroy the nuclear family, but here we are.

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