“Hey, don’t eat cricket flour, what are you doing with crickets? Let them sing where they are. We eat what we have to eat. We eat sausages, we eat sausages, we eat chicken eggs. Do not replace chicken eggs with any worms now. There is no point in making such an effort,” Petre Daea said.

“And we must be consistent and at the same time persistent in preserving our traditions and consistent in doing the right thing,” Agriculture Minister Petre Daea said on Antena 3.

It will be recalled that in March 2022, Daeya tasted domestic crickets, sharing with the producer of the TV show Etno a portion of a new food option recommended as the food of the future by the European Food Safety Agency. At first, the suspicious former Minister of Agriculture did not cause a shocking reaction when he learned that he tried, house crickets were the third insect declared edible at the European level after the yellow worm and the grasshopper, writes Money.ro.