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Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE: TSN), one of the world’s largest food companies, has reached an agreement for a two-fold investment with Protix, the leading global insect ingredients company. The strategic investment will support the growth of the emerging insect ingredient industry and expand the use of insect ingredient solutions to create more efficient sustainable proteins and lipids for use in the global food system. The agreement combines Tyson Foods’ global scale, experience and network with Protix’s technology and market leadership to meet current market demand and scale production of insect ingredients.
Through a direct equity investment, Tyson Foods will acquire a minority stake in Protix to help fund its global expansion. In addition, Tyson Foods and Protix have entered a joint venture for the operation and construction of an insect ingredient facility in the continental United States. Upon completion, it will be the first at-scale facility of its kind to upcycle food manufacturing byproducts into high-quality insect proteins and lipids which will primarily be used in the pet food, aquaculture, and livestock industries.
... About Protix
Protix is the leading company in insect-based ingredients for healthy and sustainable pet food, aqua culture and livestock feed and organic fertilizer. The company is on a mission to create low-footprint ingredients that solve major issues in the current food system.
I am old enough to remember liberals complaining that people were taking horse dewormers for medicine.
Well - now we will be getting pet food and livestock feed. Awesome
Mark another prediction for the conspiracists.
As long as they just feed the insects to the animals. My cats have eaten a lot of crickets and grasshoppers, so they would be happy to eat insect protein
What they are doing is actually what the USDA said they could do.
The USDA won't allow chickens grown in China to be sold here.
But they do allow US chickens to be sent to china to be processed and then sent back here.
Imagine ....send meat to china to be cut up, cooked and sent back here is CHEAPER than cutting it up here.
And because the chickens are dead and the processing is not done in the US, the USDA doesn't have to inspect.
USDA Approves Import of Poultry Processed in China
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And because the poultry will be processed, it will not require country-of-origin labeling. Nor will consumers eating chicken noodle soup from a can or chicken nuggets in a fast-food restaurant know if the chicken came from Chinese processing plants.
2013, which means this was just another Obama thing. He really is doing a number on this country.
This is probably a bit ahead of its time, but in the future insect protein will probably become common. It's cheap and healthy and readily available. Overall, compared to meat from beef, insects could be a healthier protein source because they contain more polyunsaturated fatty acids than animal protein.
But obviously we're not quite ready for this yet. (As a vegetarian I will stick to plant-based protein.)
And when I was growing up on the farm, our dog used to, on occasion, go into the barnyard and start munching on a pile of horse turds. Would you care to join her?
Flies eat rotting flesh. And jumping spiders eat flies. So what?
What conspiracy theory? While the original post is about animal feed, I knew some people, 10-12 years ago, who started a food-grade cricket farming business, locally. They eventually moved away, because our municipal water was treated with too many chemicals that they couldn't filter out. Or, is the conspiracy that we're going to be forced to eat insect protein, like we're all going to be forced into egg-crate apartments and take public transportation?
Not locusts- cicadas. We collected buckets of the grubs. What's funny is some people are all 'EWWWWWW!'. Do you eat shrimp? Basically they are a terrestrial version of shrimp. In fact if you have a shrimp allergy- don't eat cicadas.
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