Tuesday, April 22, 2025

‘The Blueprint for Massive Economic Growth in Louisiana Has Arrived!’

 

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!!

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The rest is at https://thehayride.com/2024/07/garlington-the-blueprint-for-massive-economic-growth-in-louisiana-has-arrived/.

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