Green protein: Could insects or mealworms be an alternative for animal feed?
Researchers and entrepreneurs are now looking at a less-likely choices as soy and fishmeal suffer from a sustainability image problem.
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Could farmers give their animals bug-based feed instead of soymeal?
Startups and research institutes have long seen insects as a more sustainable possibility for animal feed. Farmers too are increasingly open to switching to new kinds of feed as they seek to make their sector more sustainable. "Beneficial insects are fundamentally capable of converting unusable biomass or food by-products into high-quality fats, proteins and fertilizers," says Bernhard Krüsken, secretary general of the German Farmers' Association. At present, however, they only play a negligible
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