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Better Origin - Fixing the broken food chain
At Better Origin, our mission is to fix the broken food chain by replacing deforestation-linked soy and grains with insect feed.
Financial period: 1 Apr 2024 to 31 Mar 2025
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1 May 2024 to 31 Aug 2024
Insect bioconversion (IBC) refers to the utilisation of insects in converting organic biomass wastes (such as food wastes) into sustainable inputs for food, feed and non-food industries. Although core regulation in place currently in the UK allows for some forms of IBC to take place legally and compliantly, at present there remains a large gap in producer...
1 Sep 2020 to 30 Nov 2023
Black Soldier Fly (BSF) farming is now widely accepted as a key solution to tackling some of the world's biggest challenges in agriculture. BSF can simultaneously recycle food waste into insect-based animal feed (a sustainable alternative to fishmeal) and biofertiliser (a sustainable alternative to chemical fertilisers). This highly complex farming system...
1 Aug 2020 to 31 Jan 2021
Entomophagy defines many humans' close relationship with insects -- specifically their use as a food. Insects are rich in essential nutrients and regularly provide much needed nutrition to over 2bn people around the world. Insect protein contains all essential amino acids, and are rich in calories, micronutrients (e.g. more iron than beef) and vitamins (B...
1 Nov 2018 to 30 Sep 2020
There is increasing concern around the sustainability of the UK poultry feed supply chain, with a growing industry trend of moving away from soy as well as enhancing overall bird health & welfare. Insects have been demonstrated to be an excellent nutritional alternative, and are already a natural part of free-range poultry diets in the UK today. But insec...
1 Feb 2018 to 31 Jan 2020
There is increasing concern around the sustainability of the salmon aquaculture feed supply chain, with a growing industry trend of moving away from fishmeal, which is four times as expensive as plant-based proteins like soy. Insect meal has been demonstrated to be a promising nutritional alternative to fishmeal, yet there are concerns that it lacks some ...
1 May 2017 to 31 Oct 2017
Over 1.3bn tonnes of food waste are produced globally each year, amounting to over $1tn in lost value and producing >3GtCO2-eq in greenhouse gas emissions. Current valorisation technologies are out-dated, in particular throughout urban environments, where space comes at a premium, and odour production is strongly discouraged. Insect biocatalysis represent...
