Tag: soy

UK food industry unites to ensure all soy is deforestation and conversion free in landmark agreement

Stuart Mitchell

38 leading UK food producers, representing nearly 60% of the UK’s soy consumption, and the Agricultural Industries Confederation (AIC), representing the four major importers of soy and the animal feed industry, have today set out a series of comprehensive actions to deliver on the aims of the UK Soy Manifesto. An ambitious commitment which aims to move all the UK’s soy imports to being free from deforestation and conversion. Acknowledging that mainstream transformation on this scale cannot be achieved by companies working within their individual supply chains alone, all businesses…

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UK industry leaders unite to cut deforestation- and conversion-linked soy from supply chains by 2025

Stuart Mitchell

UK industry leaders from 27 major businesses – all of the biggest UK grocery retailers (including Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, Marks & Spencer and Iceland), some of the largest meat producers (including Avara Foods, 2 Sisters Food Group, Cranswick, Pilgrim’s UK), and food service companies and brands (such as Danone UK and Ireland, Nestle UK and Ireland, Nando’s, KFC UK and Ireland and McDonald’s UK and Ireland) united in signing the UK Soy Manifesto. This commits them to cutting deforestation and habitat destruction out of UK soy supply chains as…

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Adopting insects as animal feed could replace over half a million tonnes of soy from the UK’s footprint – new report

Stuart Mitchell

A new report published on 1 July states using insect meal to feed fish and livestock could cut the UK’s future soy footprint by a fifth, protecting critical landscapes like the Brazilian Cerrado. The research, commissioned by WWF in partnership with Tesco, highlights the huge potential for insect farming in helping to tackle the climate and nature crisis. ‘The Future of Feed: a WWF roadmap to accelerating insect protein in UK feeds’ projects the total demand for insect meal from the UK’s pig, poultry and salmon sectors could reach around…

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