Finding the right balance between science and marketing is an everyday challenge for animal health pros. Nutritionist Ioannis Mavromichalis, Ph.D., offers perspectives on why all-vegetable diets may not be best for animals or the animal protein industry:
- It’s not true to the consumer
- It’s not true to the animal
- What about vitamin B12?
- Do not drive your customers to decide what animals eat
- What about all these (not so) novel ideas?
- What about all these animal-derived products?
Source: Feed Strategy, December 2018. Link.
Perhaps this is our fault for having allowed several scandals to happen. Or perhaps it is because modern societies
are removed from the way food is produced, and they cannot comprehend or do not want to know that animals eat animals.
INSIGHTS: Trends aside, there’s a lot to consider as we develop and support feeding methods for all animal species.