A Canadian farm producing insects for the nation’s human food supply has been forced to slash its workforce due to low demand for its products.
The cricket farm in London, Ontario, run by the Aspire Food Group, is struggling financially, despite receiving $8.5 million in taxpayer cash from the Liberal Canadian government.
The workforce reduction at the facility appears to be a sign that Canadians do not have an appetite for bugs.
It appears Canadians’ taste for eating “food” made from bugs is not in high demand.
After receiving millions in tax dollars from the federal government to raise crickets for “human and pet consumption,” the company has now laid off two-thirds of its staff.
The news comes after the cricket farm broke ground on a new 150,000-square-foot facility last year.
The company said it was cutting shifts and going from 150 workers to just 50.
In comments made to the trade news outlet AgFunderNews, Aspire Food CEO David Rosenberg said the facility’s layoffs are due to “improvements to its manufacturing system.”
The fact that the company is already cutting costs dramatically comes only a short time after Canada’s federal government, under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, contributed $8.5 million to it in 2022.
When fully operational, the farm can produce 13 million kilograms of crickets for “human and pet consumption.”
It was given widespread coverage several years ago by Canada’s state-funded CBC.
The outlet billed the farm as the “world’s largest cricket production facility.”
Aspire’s pitch that its “food” had a lower environmental footprint than protein from cattle or pigs was in lockstep with the globalist green agenda goals of the Trudeau government.
This green agenda pitch is one of the reasons the company landed a large taxpayer-funded grant.
According to AgFunderNews, only a year ago Aspire claimed its factory would be working at 100 percent by the start of 2024.
“We have significant contractual commitments for the majority of our production and expect 100% will be sold within the year,” former CEO Mohammed Ashour told AgFunderNews in March 2023.
Groups such as the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) blasted the federal government for subsidizing companies that make “food” out of insects for human consumption.
CTF says it amounts to giving Canadians “their ‘let them eat crickets’ moment.”
In recent years, both crickets and mealworms have been promoted by globalist elites as a source of protein to be fed to the general public.
The plan is heavily pushed by the World Economic Forum (WEF).
Notably, PM Trudeau and many of his cabinet members are WEF “Young Global Leaders.”
The WEF is pushing for traditional meat to be replaced with insect-based “foods.”
A key component of the “Great Reset” agenda of the WEF and its founder Klaus Schwab is ensuring the public eats bugs instead of beef, pork, and other meats that they say have a high “carbon footprint.”
Meanwhile, Canada’s opposition Conservative Party responded to the news regarding Aspire cutting most of its staff by arguing that it is proof Canadians “will not eat bugs.”
“Justin Trudeau bet $9 million of your money on edible BUGS!” the party said in a statement.
“He wants Canadians to own nothing, be happy, and eat crickets.
“But his bet failed,” the statement continues.
“The company he invested YOUR tax dollars in has dramatically cut production and fired two-thirds of their staff.
“Turns out, Canadians don’t want to eat bugs.”
The globalist Trudeau government has implemented many policies that align with the WEF’s so-called “climate change” agenda.
They include a punishing carbon tax and attacks on the nation’s oil and gas industries.
Since 2018, a total of $420,023 has been spent on helping multiple food companies that make bug “food” for humans, according to records.
At the same time, the Trudeau government has begun to attack Canadian farmers by pushing an agenda that would force them to reduce the amount of nitrogen-based fertilizer.
This could have a large negative impact on the growing of feed for cattle as well as food for human consumption.
Aspire is not the only factory in Canada breeding bugs to turn them into food for both human and animal consumption.
The CTF listed all of the cricket processing companies that receive corporate welfare.
In 2022, Dr. Joseph Mercola documented how Schwab’s “Great Reset” agenda looks to force the world’s population to stop consuming meat and other traditionally farmed fresh produce.
Mercola warns that the WEF is pressuring local governments to make people “consider eating bugs and weeds and drink ‘reclaimed’ sewage.”
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