{"id":115099,"date":"2020-10-25T21:23:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T04:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/french-startup-ynsect-to-build-worlds-biggest-bug-farm"},"modified":"2020-10-25T21:23:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T04:23:23","slug":"french-startup-ynsect-to-build-worlds-biggest-bug-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/french-startup-ynsect-to-build-worlds-biggest-bug-farm","title":{"rendered":"French startup Ynsect to build world\u2019s biggest bug farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/french-startup-ynsect-to-build-worlds-biggest-bug-farm.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>DOLE, France (Reuters) \u2014 Growing global demand for food is putting a squeeze on available land and one French startup says it has the answer: indoor insect farming.<\/p>\n<p>Ynsect raised $224 million from investors including Hollywood star Robert Downey Jr.\u2019s Footprint Coalition this month to build a second insect farm in Amiens in northern France.<\/p>\n<p>The company breeds mealworms that produce proteins for livestock, pet food and fertilisers, and will use the funds to build what it says will be the world\u2019s largest insect farm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOLE, France (Reuters) \u2014 Growing global demand for food is putting a squeeze on available land and one French startup says it has the answer: indoor insect farming. Ynsect raised $224 million from investors including Hollywood star Robert Downey Jr.\u2019s Footprint Coalition this month to build a second insect farm in Amiens in northern France. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}