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A southern Alberta hamlet is about to become home to a giant farm that breeds nutty-tasting flies. The 170,000 square-foot insect plant will be based in Balzac, just north of Calgary’s city limits, and will produce “thousands of tonnes” of a bug called the “black soldier fly.” For now, the company, Enterra Feed Corporation, is selling its insects as feed for chickens, fish and pets. But they’re watching a worldwide trend closely: people eating insects for protein. “We would love to be able to feed our insects directly to people,” operations and marketing manager Victoria Leung told the Calgary Eyeopener. “We don’t think it’s that far-fetched, but for now we’re sticking to animal feed in North America.”
