If you’re busy planting corn or calving cows this week, rejoice. The end of those chores is near. Scientists, entrepreneurs, and activists are building an animal-free food system.
Cricket flour is reportedly one of the novel protein sources PepsiCo is testing for use as an ingredient in snack foods such as Cheetos and Quaker Granola Bars.
“We have no idea what it is,” Bruce Auchly, information manager for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks said. “And we won’t until we get the DNA tests back.”