So What Is So Bad About Buying Imported Mealworms? How is USA-Made BSFL Better?

There are countless reasons why buying imported mealworms is a bad choice for your chickens, pigs, fish and other livestock. And yet, feed stores across America only offer imported products because of their Big-Ag support.

You have no idea what imported mealworms are fed... and it's usually feces and garbage

Imported mealworms are known to consume just about anything that isn't rock, plastic or metal, and they tend to be fed everything from styrofoam and garbage to human and animal feces. While there are hard restrictions and regulations in the United States regarding not doing these things, importing product is a convenient workaround for people who are only concerned about bottom lines. Furthermore, imported mealworms are often shipped with lead weights, as it is a profitable way to export to the United States toxic heavy metals at mealworm prices.

American dollars that leave the country tend to not return - fueling a record trade deficit with China and funding a military that opposes us

If you ever wonder why certain areas of the country are experiencing ongoing, expanding economic hardship, you need look no further than big box stores and large corporations, which only take money out of townships and cities, where those dollars will never return. These "big fish" corporations easily undercut small businesses, driving them out of business by selling products at a loss until the competition folds, then increasing prices once a monopoly has been established.

This exact practice is what is happening in the mealworm space. Mealworms are being dumped in the United States at a loss because the intent is to drive domestic American businesses into bankruptcy. Once that has been established, prices inevitably go up. In the meantime, we continue to generate record amounts of food waste annually, filling landfills, and contributing to greenhouse gases that exacerbate climate change

The US generates 88 million tons of food waste every year. That is a lot of wasted nutrients that are buried underground amid other toxic garbage, rendering those nutrients useless, where they are left to rot, convert into methane and contribute to a very serious global warming issue. Those nutrients could be fed to domestic, decentralized BSFL farms which could turn those nutrients into high-quality livestock feeds and soil rejuvenation amendments, which could help to actually combat climate change through improved photosynthesis in American farming plant life.

It is important to care where your dollars go, and who they support At Sonoma Organic, we believe in one America -- one where farmers, consumers and businesses need to perpetuate a virtuous cycle where all components of the economy feed the others. Otherwise, you have an economic engine with a fuel leak -- one that will eventually break down and collapse. We are doing our utmost to re-utilize American food waste and reintroduce critical nutrients back into the food chain and the environment, in a sustainable, natural and beneficial way. If you believe this is the way of the future, we would like to partner with you.