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Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Eugene man sells cricket snacks
BRIEFLY
Klamath County
backs sheriff in
excessive force
lawsuit
By ALISHA ROEMELING
The Register-Guard
EUGENE — Some describe the
taste as nutty or having the flavor of a
sunflower seed.
Austin Miller of Eugene says the
crunchy brown morsels taste like
popcorn.
But Miller, a 33-year-old with an
unusual new business, isn’t describing
a typical snack.
He’s talking about crickets.
Eating crickets.
“The primary way I eat them is on
chips with salsa, maybe five or six per
chip,” Miller said. “Sometimes I put a
handful on a salad. They pair well with
soft cheeses as well, but their appeal
isn’t their unique awesome flavor.
Really, they just provide a protein-rich
crunch.”
Miller breeds, raises, freezes, boils,
bakes and packages the small insects
for humans to buy — and eat.
His business, Craft Crickets in west
Eugene, started selling crickets last
week through its website.
The thought of eating crickets may
be revolting to most Americans, but
Miller and others contend that the
insects are a nutritious and environ-
mentally friendly food source that will
play a larger role in the human diet as
the world’s population explodes.
“When the world has 9 billion
people, we’re not going to be able to
necessarily feed the population with
our current agricultural practices,”
Miller said. “I’m not sure if it will be
in five years or 50, but we’ll all be
eating insects eventually.”
About 30 companies in the United
States sell insect-based food items, he
said, including a handful of cricket
breeding, raising and processing firms.
Cricket Flours, founded in Eugene
in 2014 by two University of Oregon
graduate students, started by making
flour from ground crickets. The
KLAMATH FALLS
(AP) — Klamath County
is supporting Sheriff Frank
Skrah in an excessive force
lawsuit filed by a former jail
inmate.
The Herald and News
reports that in a response to
the lawsuit filed Nov. 28,
Klamath County denied
claims of wrongdoing
by the inmate, saying
any force used against
him was justified by the
circumstances.
Kenneth Ray Bragg
has accused Skrah of
illegally striking and
choking him during his
arrest last year. He filed
lawsuit in September
against Skrah, the county
and 10 unidentified law
enforcement officers who
allegedly witnessed the
incident.
Skrah filed a response
Nov. 8 saying any force
used against Bragg was
necessary to subdue an
armed suspect.
Kelly Lyon/The Register-Guard via AP
In this Dec. 1 photo, Austin Miller poses with some of the crickets he
raises inside a warehouse in Eugene, Ore. It takes six to eight weeks for
the crickets to grow into adult bugs. Miller breeds, raises, freezes, boils,
bakes and packages the small insects for humans to buy and eat.
founders moved their firm to Portland.
Earlier this year, they said they had
developed the world’s first brownie
mix with milled crickets.
There’s a variety of ways people
can consume the tiny, protein-packed
bugs, according to Miller, who says he
often adds crickets to tacos for extra
texture. His life partner, Zoe Anton,
32, grinds them up in a food processor
and puts them in shakes or bakes the
remains into a cake for added protein.
“It’s probably the most protein-rich
cake that I’ve ever eaten,” Miller said.
His company’s crickets are not
seasoned with spices or salt. After
being baked, they’re packaged —
antennas, legs, eyes and all — into
2- and 4-ounce resealable bags. The
2-ounce bag costs $15 and contains
about 650 to 750 crickets. The 4-ounce
bags cost $20 each and have about
twice the amount of baked bugs.
At Craft Crickets, Miller raises
about 500,000 crickets at a time in a
3,000-square-foot, rented warehouse
on Conger Street, off West 11th
Avenue.
He and Anton became interested,
and eventually passionate about,
eating insects following a yearlong
trip to such countries as Belize, Guate-
mala, Honduras and Mexico.
“We did some traveling in South
America, where eating insects is very
common,” Miller said. “In Oaxaca
(Mexico) they sort of pan fry them
and season them, and then sell them in
large bags and people eat it like candy
— they’re tasty.”
It cost the couple about $25,000
to start the business. The Oregon
Department of Agriculture recently
approved Craft Crickets as the state’s
first food grade producer of crickets,
Miller said.
It took awhile to find a place to
raise half a million crickets, he said.
Prosecutors say Hunt
encouraged her boyfriend,
38-year-old Russell Courtier,
to drive his Jeep into
19-year-old Larnell Bruce
Jr. after the two men scuf-
fled outside a 7-Eleven in
Gresham. Race was a moti-
vating factor in the attack,
according to authorities, who
have said the couple has ties
to white supremacists.
Three eyewitnesses heard
Hunt shout “Run him over!”
to Courtier, according to
prosecutor David Hannon.
The surveillance video
shows Bruce sprinting
away from the Jeep seconds
before he was fatally struck.
Gresham police have also
testified that Courtier was
accelerating rapidly as he
chased Bruce and even drove
into oncoming traffic and
onto a sidewalk during the
pursuit.
Hodson found that the
“presumption is strong” that
Hunt was an accomplice to
murder.
Hunt and Courtier have
pleaded not guilty to charges
of murder and intimidation,
a hate crime. Courtier did
not request release from jail
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THURSDAY
Mostly sunny and
very cold
Cold with periods
of snow
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27° 24°
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
Rain, mixed with
snow early
A blend of sun and
clouds
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
34° 26°
39° 30°
40° 26°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
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31° 19°
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TEMPERATURE
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Moonrise today
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a passing afternoon shower in the south.
Periods of rain tonight.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Partly sunny
and cold today. Snow tonight, accumulating
a coating to an inch.
Western Washington: Mostly sunny today.
Cloudy tonight; a little snow at times across
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Eastern Washington: Mostly sunny today.
Mostly cloudy tonight. A little snow at times
tomorrow.
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GRESHAM (AP) —
Authorities say a high
school student who was
on the rooftop of a school
with weapons during a
dance east of Portland was
arrested.
Gresham Police said in
a news release that students
at Sam Barlow High School
alerted staff about a person
dressed in dark clothing
standing on the roof near
the student parking lot
Saturday evening.
Police say the school’s
resource officer, Jeff Culp,
responded to the roof,
confronted the person and
determined he was student.
Police say the student
had two unloaded handguns
and handgun ammunition.
Police say he told the
officer he was there in a
security capacity to ensure
the safety of students at the
dance. Police say the boy
was cooperative.
The student was arrested
on weapons possession
charges and taken to a
county juvenile detention
center.
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— Founded Oct. 16, 1875 —
Student with guns
on rooftop arrested
during dance
SEATTLE (AP) — Ride
the Ducks International
has agreed to pay up to $1
million in civil penalties
under a consent order
reached with federal
transportation officials.
The National Highway
Traffic Safety Adminis-
tration said Tuesday the
Branson, Missouri-based
manufacturer of amphibious
vehicles violated motor
vehicle safety laws when it
failed to report a defect in
a front axle or initiate a full
safety recall.
The company manufac-
tured the vehicle that was
involved in a deadly crash
on Seattle’s Aurora Bridge
in 2015. Five college
students were killed and
dozens injured.
A NHTSA investigation
pending trial.
Gresham
Detective
Aaron Turnage testified that
the attack left Bruce with
“an unsurvivable traumatic
brain injury.” He died three
days later.
Defense attorney Jon
Sarre told the judge that
Hunt was in the Jeep and
wouldn’t have been able to
stop Courtier unless she had
been able to reason with him
or force the stick shift into a
neutral gear. He also argued
that the state witnesses are
biased because they were
friends with Bruce.
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found that vehicle had
a defect that had been
noted by Ride the Ducks
International in 2013 but
the company did not issue a
safety recall as required.
The consent order says
the company will pay
$480,000 in civil penalties
and spend another $20,000
to ensure it complies with
the order. It will also pay
another $500,000 in fines
if it continues to violate
federal motor vehicle safety
laws or the consent order.
Duck boat company
to pay up to $1M
for violations
Couple to remain in jail pending hit and run murder trial
PORTLAND (AP) — A
couple accused of intention-
ally running down a black
teenager will remain behind
bars until the outcome of a
murder trial.
Colleen Hunt, 35, called
for the hearing and asked
Judge Jerry Hodson to allow
her release from jail until
the 2017 trial, reported The
Oregonian/OregonLive. But
Hodson sided with prosecu-
tors, who on Monday played
a surveillance video of the
August incident — the first
time the video was shown in
public.
Skrah
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National Summary: Snow will retreat over northern New England, while rain showers
linger over southern Florida today. Arctic air will cross the Central states. snow will advance
from the central Rockies to the central Plains.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 90° in Stuart, Fla.
Low -24° in Jackson Hole, Wyo.
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