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Tag Archives: egg
Why not feed insects to other livestock?
Here in Britain, our Food and Environment Research Agency (FERA) coordinates PROteINSECT. This is about farming insects (entomoculture) as a source of protein for animal feed. FERA is part of our Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). I’m … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, food, miniculture
Tagged aquaculture, arthropod, bird, black soldier fly, chicken, Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, development, dipteran, disease, disease transmission, egg, entomoculture, entomophagy, feed, food, Food and Agriculture Organization, Food and Environment Research Agency, food safety, food waste, housefly, insect, International Livestock Research Institute, invertebrate, larva, law, livestock, manure, meat, microlivestock, milk, poultry, research, technology, vertebrate, waste, welfare
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Existing cropland could feed four billion more by dropping biofuels and animal feed
Emily Cassidy at the University of Minnesota says that four billion more people could eat if existing croplands were used in better ways. ‘We already produce enough calories to feed a few billion more people. As our planet gets more … Continue reading
Genetically modified animal feed
Do we want to know whether or not the meat, milk and eggs we eat come from animals fed on genetically modified (GM, aka genetically engineered) feed? Here in Britain, that’s an issue with some of our major grocery outlets … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, ecology, human health, knowledge transfer
Tagged biotechnology, ecosystem, egg, feed, food, food safety, genetic modification, grocery, knowledge, label, livestock, meat, milk, supermarket
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Eggs and bacon: no more battery cages, no more sow stalls
Battery cages and sow stalls were (still are, in some parts of the world) methods of confining farm livestock in tiny cages. Good for the profits, terrible for the animals. This is the kind of thing which leads some people … Continue reading
Got milk? (or meat or eggs)? The missing ingredients in global nutritional security
Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Hidden Hunger from Bob Caputo on Vimeo. Watch this handsomely made film (with superb writing as well as videography), produced in 2010 by National Geographic‘s Bob Caputo (run-time: 26 minutes). ‘Malnutrition does not make headlines…
Smallholder livestock farming is a mainstay of the poor
Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Livestock production employs more than 1.3 billion people and livestock keeping is a mainstay of the livelihoods of some 600 million poor farmers in the developing world. Increasing demand for meat, milk and eggs in…
Posted in agriculture
Tagged development, egg, farmer, livestock, meat, milk, poverty, smallholder, trade
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Why animals matter to human health and nutrition
Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Human, livestock and environmental health are inextricably linked. Sixty-one per cent of all diseases are ‘zoonotic’—that is, transmissible between animals and humans. Such zoonoses include common food-borne illnesses as well as fatal infections with rabies…
Posted in agriculture, human health
Tagged disease, egg, farm, food, human, livestock, meat, milk, nutrition, zoonosis
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Coming to a pond near you… close encounters of the amphibian kind
If you’re in Britain, Pond Conservation invites you to the Big Spawn Count 2013. It sounds very easy to join in. When spawning season begins, in the spring, you’re invited to count how many clumps of spawn are laid and … Continue reading
Food for Britain when in drought
Here’s my entry for last year’s Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize. The deadline was 25 April 2012. As you can see, I wrote about the way things were in the spring and I assumed that when my article would win, … Continue reading
Posted in food, knowledge transfer, weather and climate
Tagged climate, drought, egg, farm, flood, food, fruit, garden, grain, grassland, human, irrigation, meat, milk, politics, polytunnel, prosperity, reservoir, vegetable, water, waterway, weather
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Know your eggs
In Britain, livestock classed as ‘organic’ is kept to higher welfare standards than other livestock. That includes being kept on ‘free range’. When animals are slaughtered, organic methods are much the same as conventional methods. I might blog about this … Continue reading
