Morrison replacing soy with insect protein from Better Origin

Better Origin is to provide insect mini farms for generating feed for 10 egg suppliers to Wm Morrison,  UK’s fourth-largest grocer.
The automated farms are housed in shipping containers and will produce insects fed on waste from Morrisons’ fruit and vegetable processing site in Yorkshire as part of  a “circular agriculture” scheme.
Insects are a natural feed for chickens, but rearing the birds indoors means that the bulk of the feed comes from soyabeans and grains. According to the British Free Range Egg Producers Association, the largest contributor to emissions on a free range egg farm is bought-in feed, which typically makes up more than 85 per cent of an egg’s carbon footprint.
The 320,000 free-range hens on the 10 farms will also be fed a supplementary diet of British beans, peas and sunflower seeds. Morrisons says it aims to start selling its carbon neutral eggs laid by insect-fed chickens next year.
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