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Morrisons will become the first supermarket to launch its own-brand carbon neutral eggs in 2022 and will reduce the use of soya feed at 10 of its free-range egg farms.

MORRISONS is to reduce the use of soya feed at 10 of its free range egg farms as it works towards becoming the first supermarket to launch own brand…

Events over the past 18 months have shown how fragile our global food system is. Fotis Fotiadis, chief executive officer and co-founder of Better Origin, discusses what can be done in this opinion piece.

Why it’s time to embrace edible insects  As an alternative to meat, bugs are winning over everyone from farms to Hollywood celebrities A grasshopper stir fry by sustainable food brand Eat Grub Credit: EAT GRUB Eating insects as a replacement for meat should be no big deal for anyone. After all, research suggests the average individual already eats 140,000 insect pieces each year. Of course most are trace contaminants in other foodstuffs. However, more than two billion people worldwide enjoy...

Better Origin, which turns flies into food for chickens, raises $3M from… Fly Ventures It turns out, where there are flies, there’s brass. Better Origin is a startup that converts waste food into essential nutrients using insects fed to chickens inside a standard shipping container. It’s now raised a $3 million seed round led by Fly Ventures and solar entrepreneur Nick Boyle, while previous investor Metavallon VC is also participating. Its competitors include Protix, Agriprotein, InnovaFe...