Protein from flies and larvae is taking off, if more for chicken feed than human lunches. But what’s bugging the whole sector is a post-Brexit rules snarl-up
Central London is not known for its farms. Yet under railway arches a five-minute walk from London Bridge station is a farm that breeds livestock in their hundreds of thousands every year. But there are no cows or chickens down on Entocycle’s farm; it focuses on an altogether different category of livestock – insects.
The business, which was launched in 2016, is now at the forefront of the UK’s growing insect farming sector. It supplies insects for animal feed, but also sells its patented technology and modular farms across the globe.
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