Our Key Research Topics
VerdantWays Inc. believes that high quality evidence is at the core of sustainability. Meta-analysis is the best way to produce highest quality evidence. This research methodology is also very efficient as it capitalized on the already published evidence and provides a summarized conclusion and guides future research. All these steps reduce research waste. 1
VerdantWays Inc. published its first orignial research paper in the Animal Poduction Science journal.Â
Analysing the effects of feeding black soldier fly on broiler growth
performance: a meta-analysis.Â
The study concludes that the inclusion level of black soldier fly larvae meal in any form was seen to be safe up to 10%, and the effective duration of the supplementation was ≤35 days.
This means that the utilisation of black soldier fly as a sustainable protein source should be encouraged to facilitate farmers in terms of being less dependent on soybean meal, as well as to reduce the competition between humans and animals for plant protein sources.
1.-Macleod MR, Michie S, Roberts I, Dirnagl U, Chalmers I, Ioannidis JPA, et al. Biomedical research: increasing value, reducing waste. The Lancet. 2014 Jan;383(9912):101–4.
