Bug Out: Major U.S. Meat Distributor to Build Insect Factory for “Sustainable Protein”

SPRINGDALE, ARKANSAS — One of America’s largest food distributors is adding bugs to its menu.

Last week, Tyson Foods announced a new investment with Protix, the world’s leading “insect ingredients company,” to build and operate a new facility that will use bugs to create “more efficient sustainable proteins and lipids for use in the global food system.”

The U.S. based facility will maintain an enclosed system to support all aspects of insect protein production including the breeding, incubating, and hatching of insect larvae.

“Upon completion, it will be the first at-scale facility of its kind to upcycle food manufacturing byproducts into high-quality insect proteins and lipids,” the company stated in a press release.

“The insect life cycle provides the opportunity for full circularity within our value chain, strengthening our commitment to building a more sustainable food system for the future,” Tyson Foods CFO John R. Tyson said.

The company claims the insect proteins will “primarily” be used for pet food, aquaculture, and livestock industries.

“SUSTAINABLE” FOODS, LAB GROWN MEAT AND CANCER

Tyson’s announcement is the latest in a string of commitments from food industry giants and government leaders pledging to bioengineer more “sustainable” food.

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In September 2022, President Biden issued an executive order on “Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe, and Secure American Bioeconomy,” in which he committed his administration to “cultivating alternative food sources.” 

The World Economic Forum’s head ideologue Yuval Noah Harari previously claimed that eating meat is “immoral and unsustainable.”

Harari’s homeland Israel is a pioneer in lab-grown meat science and product development. The company Future Meat, a Jerusalem-based company that creates chicken, lamb, and beef products made from animal cells, raised a whopping $347 million in 2022. The company was founded and is led by Professor Yaakov Nahmias at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

“While Future Meat is leading the pack as the fastest-growing company in this space, I truly see the entire cultivated meat industry as a massive agent of change, creating a sustainable future for coming generations,” Nahmias told The Times of Israel last year.

Canada’s Aspire Foods, backed by former Cisco CEO John Chambers, has built a huge factory designed to breed and process crickets for human consumption. Similar ventures have been launched across the West. For example, the European Union has approved mealworms, crickets and grasshoppers as human food.

There are three big “start-ups” who are on a mission to bring lab-grown meat to grocery stores across America – Believer Meats, Eat Just and Upside Foods. The trio have raised more than $1.2 billion in combined venture funding, according to Bloomberg. In 2017, Upside raised a $17 million round of venture funding from Bill Gates, Richard Branson’s Virgin Group and meatpacking company Cargill, to name a few. 

Lab-grown meat is tissue grown from cells in a petri dish, or as companies in this space are planning to do: in huge vats called bioreactors. In a feature story on these companies, Bloomberg reported that artificial processes of bioengineering food can be cancerous.

“To get the cell cultures to grow at rates big enough to power a business, several companies, including the Big Three, are quietly using what are called immortalized cells, something most people have never eaten intentionally,” reporter Joe Fassler wrote. “Immortalized cells are a staple of medical research, but they are, technically speaking, precancerous and can be, in some cases, fully cancerous.” 

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Eat Just has plans to build a US facility with ten 66,000-gallon bioreactors, enough to produce 30 million pounds of lab-grown meat per year. Meanwhile, Bon Appetit reported in January that over 100 companies “flush with capital” are busy creating lab-grown beef, seafood, lamb, duck, pork, and more.

“TIME TO BUD LIGHT TYSON”

On X, several users reacted to Tyson’s announcement by calling for boycotts. 

“Time to bud light Tyson,” one woman wrote.

Another user pointed out that Tyson’s three largest shareholders are BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street – three multi-trillion dollar investment firms that control many of the world's most influential corporations.

The user then asked, rhetorically: “Who’s involved with destroying the world???”