The world’s population is forecast to rise to nine billion by 2050 and food production projections are struggling to keep pace with this rise. One of the many challenges with this growth is producing enough protein to feed fish and poultry, the animals which are consumed most around the world.<\/p>\n
For a pioneering French bio-tech company the solution on both an economic and an ecological level to producing the quantities of feed required to keep pace with increased demands can be found quite literally under our feet \u2013 insects. This is the core of Ynsect who see insects as the perfect feed for fish and poultry and have a plan to expand the scale of the breeding of them. And their vision goes beyond just insects providing animal feed and into potentially developing a varied host of bio-based products.<\/p>\n
The team at Ynsect think that insects have been unfairly neglected. They are efficient animals, able to grow fast in small places and produce almost no waste. We all understand that a bio-refinery is a facility that converts biomass into a product of a higher value or use. Well, seems that insects do that too. The \u2018insect bio-refinery\u2019 (or entorefinery as Ynsect have labelled it) has a tremendous ability to digest very efficiently all kinds of bio-mass with insects reproducing fact, eating a lot and when big enough to be harvested made up of high quality materials, notable proteins, lipids and chitin.<\/p>\n
The Ynsect process starts with the feeding of insects with \u2018low value\u2019 organic substances. Although low value does not mean low quality. In our wasteful food production chain, there are plenty of food products that never reach the human kitchen. Perhaps they are a bit misshapen, or a slightly different colour to usual, or maybe are slightly bruised from transit. Either way there is a huge amount of food wasted. Expect not in the eyes of Ynsect, for them this cheap, unused \u201cugly\u201d food is perfect for feeding insects. After all it\u2019s what they would eat naturally anyway!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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