Sustainable Dog and Cat Food: Page 18

Pet Food Market

Bright Planet Pet: Innovation, taste, sustainability

Learn about Bright Planet Pet’s innovations in the plant-based pet treat space, particularly in dog treats.

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Wood-eating yeast in cat food highly palatable, digestible

Raising fungus as pet food ingredients on otherwise discarded material reduces the environmental impact of companion animal nutrition. For example, torula yeast (Cyberlindnera jadinii) feed on woody biomass left as waste or residues from making wood products.

Photo by Andrea Gantz

Pet Food Market

5 facts: How consumers seek and support sustainability

More and more consumers, especially those in younger groups and with higher incomes, are willing to spend more on environmentally friendly products.

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Plant-based pet foods keep growing amid supply chain snags

Following the human food trend, plant-based pet foods continue to grow in popularity and sales, boosted by supply chain issues with animal-based proteins.

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Pet Food Packaging

Do more with less: Pet food packaging demands increasing

Learn about the latest in pet food packaging trends. Topping the list: sustainability.

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Market Trends and Reports

Pet food packaging and sustainability

Learn more about the current state of sustainability demands with in the pet food packaging space.

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3D printing pet treats with plant, insect, algae protein

Ordering a perfect cup of Earl Grey tea from a Star Trek-style replicator remains for the next generation. However, small-scale 3D printing of pet treats may not be science fiction for long. Those futuristically created treats may themselves contain equally unconventional ingredients, such as insect and algae proteins.

Protein derived from plants like algae may soon play a large role in pet food. | (waldru | Bigstock.com)

Pet Food Market

Can newer technologies ease pet food supply chain woes?

The pet food industry may find answers to supply chain problems with technologies in areas like protein ingredients and packaging materials and production.

Meat cultured in laboratory conditions from stem cells.

Pet food growth may outstrip animal protein supply

Animal protein production bottlenecks were only one of the supply chain issues facing the pet food industry now and in the near future, according to researchers in their examination of the interplay among human and pet food ingredient demands.

With byproducts from a cow being used for pet food, should it have the same carbon footprint as a steak for humans? l Andrea Gantz

Pet Food Market

Sustainable food, pet food claims follow consumer demand

Pet owners and other consumers increasingly want sustainable products, and pet food and human food brands are responding with corresponding claims.

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Pet Food Market

Cat owners report no plant-based diet health problems

As vegetarian and vegan diets become increasingly mainstream, pet owners want their companion animal’s diets to match their own edibility ethics.

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Throw-away pet food bags make biogas energy in landfills

Most pet food packaging ends up in landfills, even the recyclable or return-to-store types. While recycling is familiar and popular, flexible materials used for recyclable pet food bags often are not collected by curbside pick-up.

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