Watch this item from Australia. Now consider that when I began this blog in 2007, that no one thought about maggots at all, let alone entering our food chain. thus when i came across a report of deliberate maggot consumption by Inuit of the far north out of a meat cache, i was completely surprised. We found out the maggots adopt the flavors of their food as well.
Knowing it could be done, i quickly identified it as useful chicken feed.
That has now led to the industrialization of distributed waste food processing and from this item it is additionally clear that the feed stock produced can be also augmented by millers waste in particular.
All this produces mature dehydrated maggots as ideal chicken feed along with a premium organic fertilizer.
thus all food waste can be locally collected and processed without significant additional human handling.
This will become totally global everywhere and will produce quality eggs as well.
The big take home from the comment is that insect fed eggs will be super premium product and will set a new standard.
Grain fed is not our first choice and obviously range fed get their improvement from insect augmentation.
From this, I do predict this will become global best practice for all food waste including food industry waste and it will all be fed into the poultry industry to produce quality eggs and meat..
<iframe width="853" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kEGWR8fZQu4" title="Why Australia Fills South Wales with Millions of Worms" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>
I thought of this kind of feeding for my chickens twenty years ago, mainly because this is how many African farmers feed their layers, and the quality of eggs your chickens pay on insect feed is vastly better than when on standard grain feed. I actually let my Chickens roam around in my garden, without much consequence to the veggies I grew because the insects were far more desirable for them than the veggies, except the spinach, never leave chickens unattended around spinach because as soon as they realize that it is a tasty treat, your spinach plants will be leafless in 3.7 seconds, So I just put some chicken wire around my Spinach and let the hens roam, and not only was my garden free from all kinds of insect problems, but the Eggs were so delicious that we sold them out in less than 30 minutes from the opening of the Farmer's market! And you know what I mean, those free-range eggs with the extra dark orange yolk compared to the emaciate and sallow yellow of the store-bought eggs. The Yolks were so flavorful that people couldn't resist standing in a line to buy Eggs that we actually had to set a limit for each Customer, because, silly me told people how to properly store eggs in a pitcher of water to prevent them from drying out inside and sticking to the shell (thus making it almost impossible to make Sunnyside up eggs because the yolk almost always breaks. On top of that my eggs made such an excellent Eggnog that I won an award for the best tasting Eggnog when I made it fresh for a local food competition, along with a really good Cheesecake that was the best in class for basic cheesecake (aka New York Cheesecake) If you can find eggs from a farmer who feeds them insects, those will be the VASTLY superior eggs to eat, but most places charge a pretty penny for such eggs as labelled "Free Range" because of the darker yolks which most of us desire, although I met someone who did not like the dark yolk eggs, until she actually tried them. I told her to give them a chance and if she still didn't like them after eating two or less I'd buy back the dozen she bought for the same price, and simply add two more eggs from the hens. She came back and bought two more dozen eggs the next week. Quick note to all buyers of eggs from the store, did you know that the eggs you buy from the store, on average are six weeks old, because they hold on to eggs for a certain time because egg producers can have a fluctuating number of eggs, to combat the fluctuating numbers they amass and hold onto eggs for six weeks and as they get more in, the older ones are sent out, thus ensuring they have sufficient numbers and maintain stock in supply for enough time that there is hardly ever a shortage, unless there is a catastrophic disaster in the area and farmers suddenly lose their layers everywhere. And outside of the major cities, eggs are usually locally grown in the region you live in. Specialty eggs are a bit different, like "free Range eggs" and Eggs from other species of birds like Quail, Duck etc..
No comments:
Post a Comment