Crickets Are Not a Free Lunch: Protein Capture from Scalable Organic Side-Streams via High-Density Populations of Acheta domesticus

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1. Their output to input ratio should still beat chickens by a mile, even using the same feed. It just means they’re not the trash compactors we hoped.

   Unless I’m mistaken, this says you need to give them high quality feed to get them big and old enough to harvest successfully. In this case they used the same feed as you’d use for chicken. It would be cool if they could turn our trash into food, but this certainly isn’t any silver bullet against the argument for them. Also this study didn’t mention unless I overlooked, but they can probably still incorporate some low percentages of food waste to offset costs, it looks like you just need to get them enough protein carefully

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