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It turns out, where there are flies, there’s brass. Better Origin is a startup that converts waste food into essential nutrients using insects fed to chickens inside a standard shipping container.

Birds greet their food with ‘scratch dances’ and productivity is up. Could insects be an alternative to deforestation-linked soy?

Tech is becoming more and more integrated into agriculture. It can help to precisely control the growing conditions but also produce food closer to where it’s going to be consumed. But now there is a new…

Cambridge startup Better Origin has earned £1.1 million of a £10m haul from the UK Government’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund designed to help grow the insect bioconversion sector – accelerating a transition to sustainable methods of…

Edible bugs, now taking off in the west, offer environmental and nutritional benefits.

Ascend Studio has branded a Cambridge-based biotech company which hopes to reduce waste in the food production industry.

Few industries are as inefficient and exploitative as the food industry. The ferocious demand to feed the 7.8 billion human population is wiping out life as species become functionally extinct on land and in the ocean: 60%…

Poultry producers can now grow their own waste-fed insects for use in feed, following the launch of an autonomous mini-farm from Better Origin.