Flies in the dog food? No problem

Fly larvae are coming into their own as a sustainable, healthy pet food — and as the ‘livestock’ of the future

28 April 2024 - 00:00 By Anton Ferreira

To most of us they’re a dirty, irritating pest we instinctively try to swat — but to a Cape Town pet food start-up, local flies in their larval form are a lucrative export to Scandinavia...

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