May 16, 2011

Time to re-instating food waste into livestock diets?

According to waste food expert Tristram Stuart, the introduction of a formalised system of sterilising and processing waste food and converting it into a useable livestock feed is inevitable. Stuart, a lecturer at Sussex University and author of Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal, said he believed a nationwide off-farm food-recycling program will provide vast tonnages of low-cost feed for UK pig producers.

He added that because of the ever-increasing concern for environmental and economic approaches to food production, the demand will be driven by consumers. "There will soon be zero tolerance among consumers over the 20 million tonnes of waste food that has to be disposed of every year in the UK," Stuart said. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little The Global Miller, published and supported by the GFMT Magazine and International Milling Directory from Perendale Publishers

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