content: You, too, can be eating insects. Britain, Belgium, Denmark,Switzerland, the Netherlands and Austria allow the farming and sale of insects as food. Now Finland is getting into the act. A "Gold rush" for cricket snack startups as Finland legalises edible insects. At the beginning of November, Finland's food safety authority allowed the sale of insects as food. Entocube is a Finnish company that builds insect farms out of shipping containers, and established Finnish food giant Fazer has already begun selling bread made from cricket flour (sirkkaleipä).  Britain, Belgium, Denmark,Switzerland, the Netherlands and Austria also allow the farming and sale of insects as food. The European Food Safety Authority: Risk profile related to production and consumption of insects as food and feed [large pdf] earlier info:  Crickets have recently been touted as the next big thing in sustainable eating (previously). Indeed, demand for crickets has skyrocketed in the past five years.  But where do human-grade crickets come from? Turns out there's a severe lack of supply to meet growing demand. Enter Big Cricket Farms, which is working to innovate new large-scale methods of cricket farming. How can you optimize a food source with minimal infrastructure to build off of? The farm's FAQ attempts to provide some answers. Fear not! You too can farm your own crickets. The Open Bug Farm Project exists to help homeowners and fledgling businesses produce insects for human consumption as safely and efficiently as possible. If you'd rather wait until more companies get involved in cricket farming and bring supply costs down, Tiny Farms is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping startup companies figure out how to produce crickets and other edible insects on a sustainable level. Recently, it has helped two other farms--Aspire and Next Millenium Farmers--get their start in the industry.