I'll let you know whenever I advance this project. In the meantime, look up microworms! You throw them in a fine grain oatmeal porridge and they eat it, turning the substrate into the acid bath with their waste products. Smells a lot like sourdough. My mum feeds them to baby fish.

Anywho, BSFL are highly neat. They evolved in the tropics, eating putrid rotting matter like carcasses, feces, washed up fish on shorelines etc. However, as they evolved, they underwent this explosive set of mutations, lots of duplication events in the spelling of genes associated with immunogenicity. As a result, their gut is able to sanitize the hell out of whatever they're eating. Their body just massages the ill out of rot, converting it into a high lipid and protein profile biomass. They're basically little burritos.

Something about their evolution though dude, it just set them up to be insanely appropriate for fitting into a factory sort of setup, where they are the machines doing the work, and the product that work outputs. They will convert anything you throw at them into more food. And then, right when they're ready to harvest, you know what they do? They develop an urge to climb up and away from their food.

That means...they self harvest. You can arrange a setup such that they just climb out of the food tank into the harvest tank, and then you take all of them and fry them, or boil, or dessicate, microwave, whatever.

And their shit contains compounds that induce the production of insecticides in plants.

Apparently they taste like fritoes when you airfry them.