London Free Press- London cricket plant cuts two-thirds of workforce amid cash-flow crunch
Aspire Foods announced the jobs cuts Wednesday. About 50 workers remain at the plant in southeast London that opened in 2022 and received $8.5 million in federal government funding.
“It has been challenging. The company was ramping up but it became clear we needed to improve yields and we did not have cost structure” to improve production while keeping workers on site, he said.
“The mechanical systems were challenged, they were overloaded harvesting. We had crickets everywhere.”
It’s not even a real game.
Well, to be precise, cricket in the singular is unquestionably a real game. Crickets in the plural, not so much. Real sound effect, maybe.
I live in London. I complained about this to my MP. Response…
Crickets
The government overreach in this country (and many others) is insane at all levels!
Let’s start with 50% reduction in headcount year 1, same again in year 2……
EI way cheaper than comp + benefits!
We had crickets everywhere?
I fail to see the problem.
Waiter, there are crickets in my soup.
its winter . open bay doors Hal.
My takeaway from this is cricket protein is considered vegetarian. That seems hypocritical. Even crickets are living beings.
Who can ever forget the lovable Jiminy Cricket of Disney fame?!
These maniacs are asking us to eat Little Jiminies!
Maybe we are a genocidal nation.
By Jiminy, we may indeed be a genocidal nation!
Why aren’t they harnessing the cockroach potential?
Cash flow crunch? Seems like an appropriate thing to say when you dealing with crickets
Feed the crickets to chickens, feed the chickens to me.
No, you don’t understand. They don’t get any enjoyment out of it if you eat the chicken that ate the bugs. The whole point of this is to MAKE you eat the bugs.
Because they want to see the look on your face.
And that, Phantom, is why they are an anti human pestilential blight that is in need of extreme extermination.
RAID!!!!
Pinocchio:
“First they came for Jiminy Cricket, and I said nothing because he was annoying.
Then they came for Bambi, and I said nothing because… well, I really like venison.
Then they came for me, and I was lucky they only cut off my nose and little wooden pee-pee because they needed kindling.
Then they came for Smokey Bear, and he put a stop to that nonsense. FAFO. Don’t poke the bear. Smokey said they were delicious, BTW.”
The only reason why Jiminy was annoying was because he sounded just like Bing Crosby.
I was told this one in Glasgow: “Do ye ken the difference between Bing Crosby and Walt Disney? Well, Bing sings, and Walt disnae!”
How much of the funding for that ended up in Lieberal coffers?
The sound of crickets can be relaxing and simultaneously annoying.
Had a cricket bar this summer. Tasteless, overly chewy and expensive. I’d rather eat live bees.
” … and we did not have cost structure” to improve production while keeping workers on site…”
Translation:
There was no more tax-payer money to piss away.
Better translation, Jamie.
“No one is buying this crap.”
Anyone and I mean anyone, who thinks we should eat bugs should assume room temperature.