{"id":131099,"date":"2021-11-22T19:25:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T03:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/maggots-could-revolutionize-the-global-food-supply-heres-how"},"modified":"2021-11-22T19:25:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T03:25:36","slug":"maggots-could-revolutionize-the-global-food-supply-heres-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/maggots-could-revolutionize-the-global-food-supply-heres-how","title":{"rendered":"Maggots could revolutionize the global food supply. Here\u2019s how"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/maggots-could-revolutionize-the-global-food-supply-heres-how.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2019 o.o!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Black soldier fly meal only won approval as <a href=\"https:\/\/thefishsite.com\/articles\/insect-meal-gains-us-fish-feed-approval\" target=_blank>fish<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/black-soldier-fly-larvae-ingredients-receive-fda-recommendation-for-poultry-diets-300709862.html\" target=_blank>poultry<\/a> feed in 2018. Koutsos said EnviroFlight and companies such as <a href=\"http:\/\/enterrafeed.com\/\" target=_blank>Enterra<\/a> in Canada and <a href=\"https:\/\/protix.eu\/\" target=_blank>Protix<\/a> in the European Union are working to win regulatory approval for using the meal in food for other animals, including swine and even cats and dogs.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is to take pressure off traditional sources of protein meal, such as fish. About <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/faf.12209\" target=_blank>one-quarter of the harvest from marine fisheries<\/a> is turned into food for farmed animals, including fish, hogs and poultry. More than 90 percent of those fisheries are either fully exploited or overfished, meaning that as the world\u2019s population grows, there will be more demand for alternative protein sources.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no question that [soldier fly] meal is much more expensive right now than fishmeal,\u201d Koutsos said. But fishmeal is becoming more expensive, and soldier fly technology is becoming cheaper. The goal, she said, is \u201cto be at or below fishmeal [price] in five years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2019 o.o! Black soldier fly meal only won approval as fish and poultry feed in 2018. Koutsos said EnviroFlight and companies such as Enterra in Canada and Protix in the European Union are working to win regulatory approval for using the meal in food for other animals, including swine and even cats and dogs. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}