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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jack Simpson

British firms strive to create a buzz around insect farming

Man holding small insect
Keiran Whitaker with hero protein producer the black soldier fly. Photograph: Jill Mead/the Observer

Central London is not known for its farms. Yet under railway arches a five-minute walk from London Bridge station is a farm that breeds livestock in their hundreds of thousands every year. But there are no cows or chickens down on Entocycle’s farm; it focuses on an altogether different category of livestock – insects.

The business, which was launched in 2016, is now at the forefront of the UK’s growing insect farming sector. It sells its patented technology and modular farms across the globe.

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