Italy has given the ‘green light’ to a company that produces flour made from crickets for human consumption‚ The Guardian reports. According to reports‚ Nutrinsect previously was only allowed to use the flour in pet food. Italy gives go-ahead to insect flour for human use: Nutrinsect defies Italian food purists with cricket flour that can be incorporated into range of foods.https://t.co/qwyLyrJPUa — Ruchir Sharma (@ruchirsharma_1) January 31‚ 2024 The go-ahead defies attempts by Italian government officials to keep the buggy products away from traditional Italian dishes. “A new page in the history of food has been opened‚” Nutrinsect chief executive Josè Francesco Cianni said‚ according to The Guardian. “This is very big news for us‚” he added. Azer News reports: Since 2020‚ millions of crickets have been raised at the company’s factory in Montecassiano‚ a town in the central Marche region‚ where they are heat-treated and then frozen and ground into powder. Until now‚ the company was only authorised to sell the flour for use in pet food. The EU authorised the sale of the insects – crickets‚ locusts and click beetle larvae – for human consumption in early 2023‚ prompting a flurry of proposals from the Italian government‚ including one aimed at keeping the insects out of traditional dishes such as pasta and pizza. “It is very important that these flour products are not confused with products made in Italy‚” Agriculture Minister Francesco Lollobrigida said at the time. By the time the rules became official late last year‚ however‚ the government had made concessions‚ introducing strict labelling rules such as clearly stating the origin of the product and requiring the use of the label Acheta domesticus‚ which means “domestic cricket” in Latin‚ on packs so that consumers would not be so surprised. Cianni claims the company’s product is ‘healthy’ and ‘nutritious.’ Unsurprisingly‚ other comments by the company’s chief executive boast about ‘low emissions’ from the meat alternative the World Economic Forum continues propagandizing to the masses. “It’s good for the environment because the resources required to breed crickets and the spaces used are really small‚ and so emissions are almost zero‚” he added. Italy's embrace of cricket flour as a "sustainable" protein aligns suspiciously with WEF's push for alternative foods. Critics fear this marks the start of a slippery slope away from #food freedom towards a controlled‚ globalist diet. I has begun… #wef https://t.co/HMMQnkH5Al — Alexander Chapman (@axchapman) February 2‚ 2024 From The Guardian: Nutrinsect’s cricket flour will be distributed to food supply companies and those across the catering chain. The flour can also be bought online for €6 a packet. Cianni has been hit with a deluge of messages since receiving the authorisation‚ some supportive of his initiative and others less so. He said people fear the crickets “have come from far away and are dirty”. “But our cricket flour is 100% made in Italy‚” he said. “It will sit very nicely alongside other Italian specialties.” As for the taste‚ Cianni said it was similar to “pumpkin seeds‚ hazelnuts‚ and also a little bit like shrimp”. Klaus Schwab would surely agree with Cianni’s sentiments.