Insect farms to produce protein for food

Every day there are more people investigating different ways of eating alternatively (without polluting our environment), and it is almost always necessary to obtain proteins to incorporate them into "artificial" foods. And proteins can be obtained from plants or animals. 

And within the animals there is a great variety. We by culture have always fed on meat, fish and vegetables, but other cultures have experimented with invertebrate animals, insects, etc...

There is a company in France called  Ÿnsect  that is dedicated to the cultivation of insects. It uses mealworms and others for their protein, and then uses these proteins to make other feed for animals and fertilizers, and eventually for people.

The company website is: http://www.ynsect.com/en/

They have a fully automated plant managed by robots to move the boxes in which the insects are raised, and to carry out the extraction operations of the proteins they generate. In the lower photo you can see the type of box they use.

The insects are placed on boxes, where they are fed and raised. The “factory” is like a large warehouse full of vertical shelves, temperature controlled, and each box of insects is monitored at all times.

Insects do not take long to develop and consume very little food compared to other animals such as cows, etc... Therefore, their protein costs much less to obtain, so it is more efficient.

The company already produces products to feed fish farms (invoicing more than 100 million dollars a year) and pets, and in the future it aims to feed people.

A video can be seen at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqBllzgBIUo

It seems to me that it is a very intelligent bet, since the use of space is very good, and since it is an automated process, it can be carried out in a high-cost country such as France.

I think it's a pretty good proposal to plant-based proteins because of the use of physical space, and the speed of insect growth.

If we think a little, it is a cultural issue. We Westerners tend to think of proteins relating them to meat or fish. But there are many other possibilities to obtain proteins to feed us

However, in this case I prefer not to see where they come from.