The world’s largest insect farm — a high-tech facility that sprawls across 35,000 square meters and will produce 15,000 metric tons of protein from fly larvae each year — opened in April in Nesle, France. If all goes to plan, it will be upstaged in December by a 45,000-square-meter farm outside Amiens capable of producing over 100,000 metric tons of mealworms per year.
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Updated November 13, 2023 at 2:04 p.m. EST|Published November 12, 2023 at 6:30 a.m. EST