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The largest poultry manufacturing conglomerate in the United States Tyson Foods Inc launched a cooperation program Protikhi with a Dutch company named, whose main field of activity is the cultivation of insects, with the aim of producing proteins from the mass of insects to be placed on the market first as animal feed, and in the distant future also directly for human consumption.
Tyson Foodsstill known above all for its chicken products, decided to build a collaboration At Protix a giant insect pulp processing complex on the surface of the United States. The plant aims to launch insect protein production on an unprecedented scale to “reduce the burden on the planet”.
You will see in more detail Tyson Foodsi AND Protikhi Industrial production of fly larvae is envisaged. The fly larvae bearing the species name “black soldiers” are fed with animal excrement, after which the fly larvae are in turn fed to chickens and fish as animal feed. The development of a pet food made from fly larvae is also being studied.
According to research conducted by Rabobank in 2021, insect food production will increase from 10,000 tons to almost 500,000 tons by the end of this decade, and will continue its exponential growth from there, as the idea of insect food becomes increasingly more widely accepted throughout the Western world dedicated to the green revolution.
Especially afterwards Klaus Schwabi led by diligent lobbying by the World Economic Forum, which foresees increasing pressure on politicians with the aim of legalizing the use of insect-derived proteins in the human diet.
Edited by Adrian Bachmann
2023-12-08 08:54:02
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