Large commodity traders, Bunge and Cargill, are displaying “intentional ignorance” about purchasing deforestation-linked soy from the Gran Chaco region in South America, alleges Glenn Hurowitz, CEO of US based not-for-profit group, Mighty Earth.
Global fast food giant, McDonald’s, is exploring the potential of protein derived from both insects and seaweed as alternatives to soy in chicken feed.
Calysta is testing its natural gas derived protein in shrimp diets and it says initial results suggest that the ingredient supports shrimp survival and production.
Several feed additives may be effective in regulating intestinal environments and improving pig growth performance if diets without antibiotic growth promoters are fed, but results in terms of their various attributes are variable and further research...
Dutch investment fund, Aqua-Spark, which has sustainable fish farming as its goal, has invested in Hatch Accelerator 1.0, the first-ever incubator type program for the aquaculture industry.
Church & Dwight Co, the parent company of US feed additive and animal health company, Arm & Hammer Animal and Food Production, has acquired a food safety focuses business.
Some 1,750,000 tons of feed from Cargill’s fish feed mills last year were used in the diets of 30 different type of fish species. One-eighth of that product was functional feeds, aimed at promoting animal health, said the company.
An increase in regional protein production in Europe is possible, but any further development of regional raw feed protein cultivation is going to need a lot of support, both from feed manufacturers and policy initiatives.
