Don’t let nutrition bug you

Adyl Gaparov has launched Kyrgyzstan’s first cricket farm and is producing high-protein insect flour and fried cricket snacks. Eyeing the lucrative Chinese market just across the border. “Our main business is producing cricket flour with high protein content,” Gaparov said. “Our flour contains no less than 70% protein and many micro and macro elements.” Gaparov has about one ton (2,200 pounds) of live crickets at his farm, but he says serious business such as shipments to China starts with at least five-ton shipments. “We are in talks with several companies that are looking to procure large quantities of powder – which we cannot produce at the moment – to make sports protein bars, for example, for athletes and for people trying to lose weight,” he says. “China consumes 30,000 tons of insects a year, but only produces 20,000 tons.” While he grows his swarm and builds up cricket flour stocks, Gaparov also sells deep-fried insects as a beer snack.

 

Chirping for laughs

China should have a cricket team.
They can take out the whole world with one bat.

Politics is the most accurate word in English
It’s made up of two other parts.
1 – Poly – meaning many
2 – Ticks – blood sucking insects.

Did you hear about the case of crickets a plane dropped into the Duct factory?
Don’t worry, it’s all caught on tape.

Spiderman found dead this morning.
Police believe he committed insecticide.

 

June 23rd Birthdays

1972 – Selma Blair, 1988 – Chellsie Memmel, 1992 – Bridget Sloan, 1990 – Allie Beetram

1911 – David Ogilvy, 1952 – Justice Clarence Thomas, 1976 – Brandon Stokley

Morning Motivator:

“It’s always too early to quit.”

 

Does that taste like a cricket?