American Food and Feed Alliance
Our Advocacy
Insect production is an urgent challenge to American farmers and the public. It threatens to destabilize our feed sector, use our natural resources, and imperil the health of our food sector and ecosystems. We support an immediate moratorium on the construction and expansion of insect facilities in the U.S. and a ban on government funding for the insect industry.
Economic Security
Insect production is an inefficient and unproven practice that threatens to destabilize our food and feed sectors. Insect companies aim to displace soy producers with a product that is less efficient and more uncertain.
Resource Usage
Despite breathless coverage of its eco-friendly marketing, insect production uses enormous quantities of energy and water. The sector has consistently failed to back its environmental claims with evidence and is more resource-intensive than soy and other livestock feeds.
Public Health
The insect industry's supply chain is riddled with allergens, parasites, and heavy metals. Despite these public health risks, the industry appear determined to use government mandates and deceptive labeling to bypass consumer aversion to its products.
Biosecurity
Insect production presents a major biosecurity hazard and could lead to the release of invasive or genetically modified species into nature. There is already evidence of genes from farmed insects entering wild populations.
