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Letter: There is more to our pets than a bowl of food (2)

Published 12 October 2022

From Vet Pete Wedderburn, Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland

While your article made a passing reference to insect-based food as an alternative to regular meat, but with a lower environmental impact, this deserved more focus. Insect-based foods, for example food made from black soldier fly larvae, seem far more suitable for pets than plant-based products, with a more palatable and more nutritionally complete profile.

Issue no. 3408 published 15 October 2022

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