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Our current food system is close to its expiration date. We need a change to be sustainable. Maybe you heard about meat alternatives like the 24-ingredient ultra processed plant protein burgers or lab grown meat with a crazy price tag. There’s an easier way to be sustainable right now. It’s called cricket protein.
There’s one question you have been asking us a lot lately: why is cricket flour so expensive? We have been asking ourselves the same question since we founded Sens. Our effort to make cricket flour cheaper was one of the main reasons we started our own farm. Let’s take a quick look at why cricket flour is still expensive and what will it take to make it cheaper than any other protein source.
Cvrččí mouka je známá jako udržitelná surovina bohatá na bílkoviny, ale je toho mnohem víc. Naše vlastní farma, Cricket Lab, vyrábí tu nejvýživnější cvrččí mouku, na jakou jsme kdy narazili, a s radostí oznamujeme, že si ji teď můžeš objednat přímo tady na našem webu! Tady jsou čtyři důvody, proč by měla být i v tvé spíži.
If we are ever to colonize Mars we will need an amazingly sustainable and resource efficient food source. Will it be plants, mycoprotein, lab grown meat, algae, or grass-fed cattle that feeds the future Martians? Or could insects be the right choice? Let’s take a look at what the future of protein might be, whether on Earth or Mars.
Do we have a meat problem? Maybe. It depends on what you consider a problem. Some people think meat could one day make our whole planet uninhabitable. Sounds like a stretch? Read on and make up your own mind.
Sustainability is not just something we discuss in our blog posts. It’s a big part of our mission and a way of living for us. We want everything around eating to be done sustainably and that’s what the new SENS merch is all about!