Last month, French insect farming startup Ÿnsect entered judicial liquidation, marking the end of a company that raised over $600 million despite its ambitions to build insect-based protein at an industrial scale.
The collapse follows years of financial struggles, including an inability to secure sufficient funding, persistent revenue shortfalls and high capital costs associated with its large-scale production facility, YnFarm.
The company, once highlighted by actor Robert Downey Jr. during the 2021 Super Bowl, failed to establish a viable economic model across its target markets of animal feed and pet food.
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The trend towards insect-based foods is linked to the UN’s Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (“SDGs”), promoting sustainability and forced behavioural modifications. They claim the aim is to provide alternative sources of protein to humans and animals’ natural foods, such as beef.
However, as Dr. Meryl Nass pointed out some time ago, “Just because it is protein doesn’t mean it’s good for us.” And we would add, it’s not good for our pets and farm animals either.
Nass cited parasites that could be spread by insects, difficulties in digesting insects, and common allergies to chitin, commonly found on the exoskeleton of insects.
She suggested that one reason behind the shift to insects as food is “to cause emotional harm: to degrade, debase, downgrade human beings” and that beef is “being demonised,” potentially to “weaken the species.”
So it’s good news for humanity and our animals that Ÿnsect, a French insect farming pioneer that was at one time a flagship for Europe’s climate tech ambitions, has gone bust.
The following is an article published by Press Kit at the end of last month describing the demise of the EU’s flagship insect farming operation. It seems Ÿnsect was a non-starter rather than a start-up. Although it hasn’t dissuaded smaller insect farmers from forging ahead. Proponents of insect farming in the UK are viewing it as a problem with large-scale operations before the “technology” is ready and are sure that their “measured, evidence-led” approach will succeed where Ÿnsect has failed.
Read more: Ÿnsect’s collapse raises big questions: Is feed and fertiliser the future of insect farming? AgTech Navigator, 8 December 2025
French Court Declares Europe’s Largest Insect Farming Company Bankrupt
By Press Kit, 30 December 2025
Ÿnsect, Europe’s largest insect production company, was unable to secure the financing it needed to continue operating, despite massive past funding, and was liquidated, declared bankrupt, placed into judicial liquidation – essentially bankruptcy – due to insolvency, and closed down by the court in Évry, 35 km south of Paris.
And revenue was the problem. According to publicly available data, Ÿnsect’s revenue from its parent company peaked at €17,8 million in 2021 (about $21 million), a figure apparently inflated by internal transfers between subsidiaries. By 2023, the company had accumulated a net loss of €79,7 million ($94 million), Tech Crunch reports.
Now, following the court’s decision, the Poulainville factory farm will close permanently.
“The company now has solid technologies and an operating model, although the necessary financing was not secured in time,” says Emmanuel Pinto, President of Ÿnsect, despite the multimillion-dollar project receiving massive EU funding.
It had raised over $600 million, including funds from Downey Jr.’s FootPrint Coalition, taxpayers, and many others. The company also secured a €160 million ($175,5 million) Series D financing round in 2023 with the aim of developing its portfolio and accelerating marketing authorisations for its ingredients in several markets, Global Pet Industry reports.
Additionally, the company has received approximately €170 million in convertible bonds, €150 million in bank debt, and approximately €20 million in public subsidies, including €15 million from the European Union. In the same year, the French company also initiated a rebranding and transferred its ingredient-based product portfolio under the Sprÿng brand.
In 2020, the company announced a further capital increase of €315 million, primarily intended to finance the construction of a factory in Poulainville (Somme department). This facility is designed to become the largest vertical farm in the world.
Another capital increase of €160 million followed in April 2023. Local authorities and policymakers saw the project as a contribution to industrial development and ecological transformation.
The project has received further support from local authorities and policymakers.
It was launched and presented as a start-up symbolising the industrial boom in the insect industry, but within a few months, it turned into one of the most expensive industrial flops of the decade. “Iron Man” star Robert Downey Jr. extolled its merits on the “Late Show” during the 2021 Super Bowl weekend, The Epoch Times reports.
Ÿnsect had been struggling for months. The company’s vertical mealworm farm in Dole (55 km from Dijon), which produced 200.000 tons of insect-based ingredients annually, was sold in June, Global Pet Industry reports.
Ÿnsect instead focused on producing insect proteins for animal feed and pet food. In 2021, it expanded its operations and acquired Protifarm, a Dutch company that breeds mealworms for human consumption, adding a third market to the mix. Even when the company announced the deal, then-CEO Antoine Hubert admitted that it would take a couple of years before human food would only account for 10-15% of Ÿnsect’s revenue.
“His proposition was simple: offer an alternative to resource-intensive proteins like fishmeal and soy. This same thesis also attracted significant capital to competitors like Better Origin and Innovafeed, and it looked promising,” Tech Crunch continues.
But the vision collided with market reality. Animal feed is a commodity market driven by price, not sustainability premiums. In a perfect world, insect protein would be completely circular, with insects fed food waste that would otherwise end up in a landfill. But in practice, industrial-scale insect production typically ends up relying on grain byproducts already usable as feed, meaning insect protein simply adds a costly additional step. For animal feed, the calculations simply didn’t add up.
Ÿnsect eventually realised this. Pet food proved to be a different equation: it’s less price-sensitive than animal feed and represents a far better market for insect protein, despite competition from other protein alternatives like lab-grown meat. By 2023, the company had refocused its strategy on pet food and other higher-margin segments, with Hubert citing broader economic pressures.
Sources:
- How reality crushed Ÿnsect, the French startup that had raised over $600M for insect farming, Tech Crunch, 26 December 2025
- Europe’s largest insect farm closes: Million-dollar project fails despite EU money, Epoch Times (German to English translation), 23 December 2025
- French court orders liquidation of Ÿnsect: what happens now, Global Pet Industry, 4 December 2025
Featured image: Ynsect: Reinventing the Food Chain (Ynsect website)
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Virus disclosure failed, so they do business as usual: Killing the Whites.
U R G E N T ! ! !
It seems they are going all in, starting in the UK.
Sean Young (based on military information):
“It is the removal of 58 million in UK, England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, a population cull.”
Watch and share:
Briefing livestream 8 January 2026 – YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWJHME5iuUw
Operation Green Harvest – https://thebridgelifeinthemix.info/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Operation-Green-Harvest.pdf
“…additional antennae for 60 GHz frequency…” – https://youtube.com/watch?v=oY5SReQ2Kqc
SPARS PANDEMIC SCENARIO 2025-2028 “WELCOME TO YOUR FUTURE!” – https://www.bitchute.com/video/5B3gXR8Q6Wcx/
Deagel maps, i.e. in the post “No one should ever forget this lesson (if they survive Merkel’s concentration camp German)! – https://coronistan.blogspot.com/2020/12/niemand-sollte-diese-lektion-jemals.html
The murder plot decoded: Graphene oxide in “vaccines,” PCR tests and masks; 5G for control – https://coronistan.blogspot.com/2021/07/das-mordkomplott-entschlusselt.html
“What we in France and Europe have to endure, which is so frightening, should become for us the most beautiful news of our Jewish history. … You Europeans will pay a very high price. It’s gonna be so high you can’t even imagine. There will be no holocaust for you with trains taking you to the incinerators, your necks will be cut on the spot…. Islam is the Iron Broom of Israel. Instead of us doing the work, we send Islam to solve the problem.”
— Rabbi David Touitou – https://youtube.com/watch?v=aDNhyrTjZ7M&t=22836s
THE GREAT REPLACEMENT [White Genocide] – https://www.bitchute.com/video/lqRID8ean1tv/
Good riddance!
Here’s my deal: Until I see those who are telling us the we *must* eat bugs eating them themselves, parking their private jets, and living in a tiny house… nah. They can stick their bugs and all of their other tyranny up their (bleepers).
Hi Rob D,
I totally agree with you, the people at the top never include themselves.
We can see that with the C19 fluid, how many took the fluid ?
How many of our MP’s went to parties, whilst telling us to keep 6 foot apart to save Grannies.
And how many children did Boris Johnson have, to save the planet.
Oh the pure disdain I feel for elitists and the level of evil they have. Fortunately I know God’s plan for these satanic driven imbeciles and where their arrogant narcissistic superior attitudes will end for them. God has given them every means to do good but they instead choose wickedness and evil against others. So bloated with self importance and the power their money affords them they consider themselves superior to others and therefore entitled to destroy the peons beneath them. Laying in their beds unable to sleep devising evil against the masses. Demonic glee with every plan to take to themselves more and more of what they rob from others. Foolish Godless ghouls that will suffer for eternity for the evil they have done to mankind.
All we need is a can of RAID to make sure the bugs stay dead before every meal !
First off, I agree with Dr Nass. Next we must consider one of today’s “absurd and contradictory” economic fad policies: In this case Western (or is it global?) and it is WEF/UN’s”unsustainable” policy of putting traditional farmers out of business, an assault on at least an 8,000 year old agricultural and husbandry tradition to support human life. Yet, insects too need to eat – whether in a natural environment or in an insect protein factory and, in the case of the latter, exactly what are they in their billions going to be fed on?
The article mentions ‘grain byproducts…what? When traditional age-old agriculture is under attack; reduction if not destruction of farm land, on account of another two “unsustainable” and “absurdly contradictory” policies being imposed on humanity which are chemtrails, aka Climate Control aka the Global Warming paradigm which, when combined with the roll out of 5G, then 6G etc by way of which increasing EMF, soil and atmospheric toxicity is not just killing off plant and other forms of life on this planet but which has also substantially reduced the global insect population not to mention much other wildlife. Thirty years ago global bee population was seen to have been reduced to 30% of that observed 50 years ago. Now it is down to single percentage figures. Combine that with the increasing toxicity of agricultural top soils, the decrease in life promoting CO2 and, through photosynthesis, life giving oxygen I have to conclude that to me it is a mystery from whence shall come the large volume of non-toxic digestable foodstuffs to feed billions of insects in any insect protein factory, let alone how we humans are going to be able to feed ourselves while trying to survive on an increasingly toxic and irradiated planet.
These are my thoughts, observations and fears. Don’t take it for gospel. Instead all who read this are asked to do their own independent fact checking, practise critical thinking and be logical in arriving at conclusions resulting from observations.
You make a number of good points, well worth considering.
Additionally anthropologists and historians overlook the fact that there would be no difference in the archeological record between hunter groups who followed the wild herds – and herding cultures.
For some inexplicable reason, it is assumed that agriculture began with crop production- grains &/or legumes, such a lentils. They assume that livestock were not domesticated until after the advent of crop agriculture – completely overlooking examples of herding cultures that survived into modern times, such as the reindeer herding Sami, Mongols who herded horses, sheep &/or goats, and the Masai, among others.
When their land is not take from them, these and other pastoralists have demonstrated that ample quality food, clothing and other material resources can be produced in a manner that is essentially endlessly renewable – while building soil and maintaining habitat for a wide range of wild species.
The benefits of this approach can be replicated on average farms with the use of fencing, including portable electric fence, to restore the natural relationship between herbivores and grazing lands.
Portable chicken houses built on a haywagon, etc can follow the herbivores, foraging for much of their own feed by eating larvae growing in manure piles, – providing biological fly control – with their scratching cow pats apart allowing it to quickly return to the soil, and pecking green plants, seeds etc, greatly reducing the amount of feed they must be provided.
Nature is infinitely complex, but the principles are simple.
A large scale farmer in North Dakota, U.S.A. shares how ‘Treating the Farm a a Ecosystem’ allowed him to operate profitably on 3,000 acres with low rainfall & brutally short growing seasons – without government subsidies or chemicals. Parts 1 & 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUmIdq0D6-A