It all started for Claire Simmons and her husband Chad one Earth Day when her son brought home a Snickerdoodle made from cricket flour. The cookies were delicious, and the next day, Mr. and Mrs. Simon, long worried about the destructive effects of American diets and industrial agriculture, began creating a cricket habitat in their basement.A year later in 2016 In 2018, they launched a cricket farm, and by 2018, they were producing cricket goods at Urban Farm in a warehouse in Minneapolis.
In “The Three Cricketeers,” the first runner-up of the 2022 Yale Environmental 360 Film Contest, filmmaker Sue Williams raises countless crickets and transforms them into chocolate-covered crickets, cricket snacks, and crickets. We talk about Mr. and Mrs. Simon’s efforts to change to Powders used in baking, all her 3Cricketeers brand. (The third cricketer is his son Maddox.) As the film points out, eating insects, or entomophagy, is common in many parts of the world, and Claire his Simmons claims it has anti-inflammatory, It is advertised as having anti-diabetic and anti-inflammatory properties. Hypertensive characteristics.
According to her, crickets “need only a fraction of land, feed and water. [of] other protein sources. Raising crickets produces virtually no greenhouse gases, says Simmons. “Climate change is our mission,” Simmons tells Sue Williams. “We feel very strongly about it and we can wake up in the morning and know it — it’s not the answer, but growing crickets is a piece of the puzzle.”
About the filmmaker: Sue Williams is an award-winning producer and director whose films have been shown on television in dozens of countries, including PBS in the US, and performed at festivals around the world. her latest documentary, Dennis Ho: Become a Song, was a New York Times critics pick. Christina Kelly is a filmmaker and visual her artist whose work has been screened at New Festival, Brooklyn International Film Festival, Animation Block Her Party and Paris Short Film Festival. Sam Shinn is an Emmy Award-winning producer and director of photography for documentaries, television shows, and independent features.
About the contest: The Yale Environmental 360 Film Contest aims to recognize work that has not been widely seen before, recognizing the best environmental documentaries of the year. This year he received 490 submissions from six continents and the winner was awarded her $2,000 prize.