It’s
clean! It’s green! And it chirps like a cricket! Our old friend Hosshead Jacques is back to
give us all the details.
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Folks, don’t
let all this negative news about Louisiana’s ol’ broken down economy make you
gloomy. The solutions are already here
and about to send our GDP bustin’ through the ceilin’. Let’s have a look at ‘em.
First up, windmills!
Louisiana’s first wind turbine and its components have arrived at
Avondale Global Gateway from Ireland. Jeff Keever with Avondale says this
turbine represents exciting new things for Louisiana that have already started
even though the turbine isn’t up and running yet.
“There is a complete supply chain that already exists in Louisiana
to accommodate the offshore wind industry in the United States, in particular
the Gulf of Mexico,” he says.
The turbine will be installed by Gulf Wind Technology at the Port
Fourchon Coastal Wetlands Park.
Never you
mind all those dead birds, ruined
fisheries, landfill
problems, and PFAS
contamination. Just bask in knowing
that Louisiana is leading the way in this totally unreliable, environmental
destructive, green technology!
What shall
we set our hungry gazes upon next?
Fittingly enough, insect
food production!
From
the outside, Armstrong's Cricket Farm in West Monroe doesn't look like
what most people think of as a farm. It's a series of 13 buildings tucked right
by an elevated portion of Interstate 20 on Wood Street. It's not a pastoral
scene, but it's a productive one.
The
Armstrong family grows one species of cricket, Acheta domesticus, and
they can ship about 14 million a week — live or frozen. Operations Manager
Brandon Armstrong said they also sell seven types of worm, four of which are
raised in the same facility.
Acheta
domesticus is better known as the brown house cricket, but it's sometimes
called a gray cricket.
Live
crickets are sold as pet food and bait. Armstrong's can ship to any state in
the lower 48 states and ship internationally to any country that permits the
insects.
Frozen
crickets are sold for human consumption and can be freeze-dried for use in pet
food.
"The
people we're selling it to now, what they do is process it into a protein
powder, and they use it as an additive, or as a protein source," Brandon
said.
. . . Environmental sustainability is a major
factor in the push for people to intentionally eat insects. It takes
substantially more water to raise a pound of beef versus a pound of
crickets. The insects also don't create as much greenhouse gas and, as
Armstrong's proves, can be raised in mass numbers on a small footprint of land.
The
cricket's entire body is edible, and there's a higher ratio of protein per gram
than in a serving of beef.
"As
far as the protein goes, it's a full protein, meaning it's got a full amino
file. ... You're getting all of the amino acids from the protein of the
cricket. There's no need to supplement there. It's got all its branch-chain
amino acids and essential amino acids," Brandon said.
Essentially,
it's the same to eat the bugs whole-roasted or freeze-dried and ground into a
powder. He's eaten a few crickets on a dare, but they still aren't a staple of
his own diet.
Don’t worry
a-tall about that Brandon fellow. Don’t
worry a-tall. Just because he won’t eat
a wheelbarrow full of crickets doesn’t mean y’all shouldn’t. Lookahere!
Not only do you get all your amino acids with a hearty crunch, you also
get lots of chitin,
which can cause gut problems and allergies,
as well as a helpin’ of parasites to grow inside your own livin’ body! All that’s sure to liven up a humdrum
existence. If that ain’t a recipe for
economic success, I don’t know what is.
And now,
folks! And now, the crown jewel of the
New Louisiana Economy, the greatest money-magnet of them all: carbon
capture!!
. . .
The rest is
at https://thehayride.com/2024/07/garlington-the-blueprint-for-massive-economic-growth-in-louisiana-has-arrived/.
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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us
sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema to the Union!
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