Yahoo Lifestyle Singapore marks Earth Week from 16-22 April with a series of articles about sustainability and environmental protection.
The farm, tucked away in a corner of Queenstown in Jalan Penjara, has ambitions of creating a circular economy in Singapore by using food waste to feed and grow their hungry grubs. Insectta currently feeds its larvae 200kg of food waste daily and sells 100kg of larvae each month.Wine, dine and everything in between at Jewel Changi AirportThe farm collects pre-consumer food waste such as spent brewery grains and okara – or soy bean pulp – from breweries and soy product factories.
As the global agriculture and aquaculture industries face unsustainable crop farming and depleting fishmeal stocks in the oceans, they are seeking new protein sources aside from grain crops and fishmeal to feed their livestock. They are turning increasingly to insects for animal feed. The larvae consist of 50 per cent protein, and is also rich in calcium and digestible fat, making it ideal as animal feed or pet food. Black soldier fly larvae have even been touted as a food of the future for humans, but that future is still quite far off at this point as research is being conducted on insects for human nutrition.Insectta currently supplies larvae to bird and fish owners as well as pet shops and fish farms, including Singapore’s largest ornamental fish farm, Qian Hu Fish Farm.
Pet owners and fish farms that Yahoo Lifestyle Singapore spoke to were supportive of this new eco-friendly alternative to the live feed that they normally use.
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