Does anyone know what the conversion efficiency is to go from grain to cricket to chicken vs to go from grain to chicken?

I saw the news about Canada's cricket farm fiasco - not sure why it needed so much tax money - but it seemed like crickets might be good at processing grain/maybe some food waste into chicken food.

Fill me in on the backstory.

I raised grasshoppers for 3 years in grad school studying nutrient and elemental movement, from fertilizer into wheat grass into the hoppers, and from lab made foods into the hoppers

A) I was curious if a chicken processed a cricket more efficiently than grain.

B) Obviously, converting a waste product to a feed supply would be ideal. (I don't know that much about crickets. I'm not sure what they eat)

C) I have doubts that any of that "crickets for humans" plans were real. I figured it was always a scam, the company involved was selling crickets as a pet food additive-yet still failed, despite Canada giving them a substantial portion of their start up cost, and that there are companies which do sell crickets as bait/pet food etc.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/09/americas-cricket-farmers/406843/

Quote:

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How to Breed a Tasty Cricket

A handful of companies in the U.S. are teaching themselves how to raise the insects for human consumptionand hoping that American diners will like the result.

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A) Journalists are used to sell most tax dollar scams, TMK. (But I admit, I couldn't read the walled off article.)

B) Once Food Science texts start claiming it's "indistinguishable from X," then we know the industry is pushing it.

C) If the food industry was pushing it, powdered cricket/however it was used, would get an innocuous name from the FDA.

D) Meat is a low-profit item from grocers/food processors. I'm sure the "vegan for ecology" delusion is sponsored for that reason. Maybe crickets are potentially more profitable for processors. It seems like they would be.

Well I eat Chapulines every trip to Mx which is 3-4 weeks each year. I like them.