SPECIAL STORY FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE December 2022 45 child born today will experience technological advances beyond our wildest dreams. At Nutreco, we’ve had the foresight to be ready – we have always invested significantly in research and development. In 2018, we created a new team, NuFrontiers, focused on supporting our purpose by investing in breakthrough innovation that opens our company up to completely new markets and businesses and helps us shift into a more sustainable direction. Feed ingredient production accounts for 45% of greenhouse gas emissions from the livestock industry, so we will have to find new ways to source feed ingredients. Instead of tapping precious resources such as wild fish, or farming feed crops to the detriment of natural ecosystems, we can produce feed ingredients sustainably. And we can use co-products of the food industry that would otherwise be wasted, as well as novel ingredients such as insect protein, in feed formulations optimised to meet the needs of animals. Nutreco is working to drive this forward in our industry. While we remain fully committed to supporting animal farmers, we know that our industry will have to maximise all sources of protein to feed the growing global population and make our food production chain more resilient, so we see alternative proteins as another emerging solution in addition to traditional animal farming. We believe producing meat or seafood from animal cells holds great potential to address the global challenge of feeding the population sustainably – again, alongside, and not instead of animal farming. We are partnering with companies that are working on alternative proteins and have taken the first steps to grow our presence in this area through strategic investments. We are not advocating any particular lifestyle or diet. We are not moving away from our existing business of supplying the highest quality nutritional solutions to our customers in animal agriculture and aquaculture. With our expertise, passion and innovative solutions, we believe we can help all protein farmers of tomorrow to feed a growing world population sustainably. What is the "Feed for Meat" project you are pursuing with alternative protein supplier Mosa Meat? What is the purpose of this project and what is your role here? The ambitious objective of the “Feed for Meat” project is to develop sustainable and cost-efficient feed for producing cultivated beef. This will enable cultivated meat to be produced and marketed in an economically efficient way, so that it can be a real addition to help us secure a sustainable supply of nutritious protein for future generations. Nutreco contributes knowledge and resources on raw mate-
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