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'Ÿnsect focused on producing insect protein for animal feed and pet food' Surely nothing could go wrong feeding herbivorous animals a diet of insect protein...
by xvxvx 10mo ago
'Ÿnsect focused on producing insect protein for animal feed and pet food'
Surely nothing could go wrong feeding herbivorous animals a diet of insect protein...
- mikestew 10mo agoEspecially when you could have just fed them the grain directly: …factory-scale insect production typically ends up relying on cereal by-products that are already usable as animal feed — meaning insect protein just adds an expensive extra step. For animal feed, the math simply wasn’t working.
- odie5533 10mo agoThey fooled investors with the sustainability angle. What a huge waste of money on a terrible idea cloaked in lies about sustainability.
- benregenspan 10mo agoIt seems like their pet food business (where they were competing with input-intensive meat products) could genuinely have been sustainable, if they hadn't taken so much time to figure out that competing on livestock feed is hopeless.
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- ErroneousBosh 10mo agoThis sounds like "draff", or distillery mash, where you get a huge lorryload of spent grain from brewing for very little money, which is still pretty damn nutritious for cows and sheep. Better than letting it sit and rot, emitting massive amounts of methane in the process.
- Alex2037 10mo agoplant protein is vastly inferior to animal protein. they don't feed livestock fishmeal for the hell of it.
- guywithahat 10mo agoI mean most pets are carnivores or omnivores, it sounds to me like they just scaled up before they had really found product-market fit
- conception 10mo agoFrom the article looks like fish feed.
- aitchnyu 10mo agoWe have food waste -> black soldier fly larva -> chicken and fish feed companies, a financially sustainable ecosystem of companies globally.
- thayne 10mo agoNot all agricultural animals are herbivores. Pigs and chickens are both omnivores. Also insects are probably good feed for some species of farmed fish.
- geon 10mo agoCows and horses are opportunistic omnivores.
- Fnoord 10mo agoThe quote you make doesn't mention herbivores. Cat food contains insect protein, and cats are carnivores. They even catch and eat insects themselves. In contrast, cats are being fed grains which they wouldn't naturally eat. Moreover, insects are a cheap source of animal protein.
- yxhuvud 10mo agoThey are currently fed fish protein. I fail to see a difference.