GREEN

Cricket Hop Co believes in trying to use and adopt the most environmentally friendly procedures and processes to produce all of our products, this ranges from the packaging of our products, right down to the feed on which our crickets are fed on. For example, our crickets are bread in the South of Vietnam where the climate conditions are perfect for breading the insects all year round. In correlation to other western factories which rely heavily on temperature controlled farming units to replicate this process at a higher environmental impact. Our farm partner grows Its own cassava root and feeds it to the crickets. This organic feed is great nutrients for the crickets, they then produce a high nitrate fertiliser as by-product which is then returned back onto the land to help boost the crop potassium and nitrogen content. This cycle ensures the soil quality remains high and there is no food miles or wastage involved in the process of rearing the crickets.

One third of the world’s arable land is used to produce the food required to feed the livestock which we farm. In 2050 the population is predicted to be 9 billion! This level of intensive agricultural farming cannot be sustained! The emissions produce by bovine creatures I.e. cows are the leading contributor to global warming bar far! Intensive farming of animals and crops has led to the cutting down of rainforests, polluting the oceans and poisoning river systems, Stripping the land of all its nutrients and not allowing it to recover, cutting down habitats to create grazing pastures are destroying important eco systems.

The answer?? Simply by cutting down on the amount of meat, dairy and fish we consume and by choosing where our meat comes from and how it is raised and looked after, and by swapping our daily food choices for more sustainable and eco-friendly options we can slow down the process of global warming. Let the land, rainforests, and the oceans recover and ensure that certain species do not get wiped out forever.