{"id":753052,"date":"2018-04-28T09:01:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T13:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=753052"},"modified":"2018-04-28T09:01:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T13:01:47","slug":"insect-farms-gear-up-to-feed-soaring-global-protein-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=753052","title":{"rendered":"Insect farms gear up to feed soaring global protein demand"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>Global population growth and an expanding middle class have raised per capita meat consumption by 50 percent over the past four decades.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>KARL PLUME:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;Layers of squirming black soldier fly larvae fill large aluminum bins stacked 10-high in a warehouse outside of Vancouver. They are feeding on stale bread, rotting mangoes, overripe cantaloupe and squishy zucchini. But this is no garbage dump. It\u2019s a farm.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Enterra Feed, one of an emerging crop of insect growers, will process the bugs into protein-rich food for fish, poultry &#8211; even pets. After being fattened up, the fly larvae will be roasted, dried and bagged or pressed to extract oils, then milled into a brown powder that smells like roasted peanuts&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Global population growth and an expanding middle class have raised per capita meat consumption by 50 percent over the past four decades, fueling fears of a protein pinch. Traditional sources of the key macronutrient are growing increasingly unreliable amid a changing global climate and worries about the environmental impacts of row-crop farms and commercial fishing&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-protein-bugs-insight\/insect-farms-gear-up-to-feed-soaring-global-protein-demand-idUSKBN1HK1GC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zy4EhWrqhhk?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARL PLUME: &#8216;Layers of squirming black soldier fly larvae fill large aluminum bins stacked 10-high in a warehouse outside of Vancouver. They are feeding on stale bread, rotting mangoes, overripe cantaloupe and squishy zucchini. But this is no garbage dump. It\u2019s a farm. Enterra Feed, one of an emerging crop of insect growers, will process [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":753053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,17,19,24],"tags":[30,31],"class_list":["post-753052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-environment","category-health","category-science","tag-exploitation","tag-farming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=753052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753054,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753052\/revisions\/753054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/753053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=753052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=753052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=753052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}