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12/29/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

A healthy diet for chickens found to have less environmental impact than using traditional feed

Organic food has been touted as being good for the body and the environment. One ecological economist has done the legwork and found this to be true. For chickens, at least. Nathan Pelletier, a sustainability consultant affiliated with the University of British Columbia, put forth a new study claiming that chickens given vegan organic feed […]

10/01/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Researchers look into more ways of turning food waste into good livestock feed

A lot of perfectly good food goes to waste every day, especially in developed countries. Researchers believe that some of that food waste can be converted into animal feed for livestock, a biological means of recycling food into a fresh supply. Redirecting otherwise wasted food to animals would reduce pollution associated with this wastage. It would […]

09/18/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Scientists explore exotic species of legumes as potential alternative sources for human and animal nutrition

The Vigna genus has generously provided us with a number of nutritious and tasty legumes (including adzuki beans, cowpeas, and mung beans) that have become fairly important food crops in many parts of the world. Tanzanian researchers believe that the remaining non-domesticated members of the large family of legumes are potentially significant sources of human […]

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