
Students served crickets
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Students served crickets
By: , Associated Press
October 13, 2015
Published: October 13, 2015
Lexile: 1080L
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A food truck at the University of Connecticut is serving up roasted crickets.
The Daily Campus newspaper reports the university's dining services are advertising the insects as organic, not genetically modified and earth friendly.
The crickets are high in protein and low in fat. They're a source of B vitamins, iron and zinc.
UConn, located in Storrs, says the farm that supplies the crickets uses carbon dioxide to kill them and then roasts them.
The crickets are sold for 99 cents and come whole in small plastic containers. They're sold as a snack or as a taco topping.
Dining services area assistant manager John Smith says they sell two or three containers of crickets per day at the truck.
Source URL: https://www.tweentribune.com/article/tween78/students-served-crickets/
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CRITICAL THINKING QUESTION
Why are the insects advertised as "organic, not genetically modified and earth friendly?“
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Because the crickets are heathly for u #gross dead crickets
I want to try them.
Because they are good for u #dead cricket's
The crikets are high in protein and low in fat
because they are high in protein and low in fat
Beause crickets have high protein but are fierce at times
Because the crickets are not made in a factore
They are ugly but they are quiet
I think that people from a different contry eat them
Because crickets are way healthy then junk food