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In the old days, chickens were fed scraps: vegetable peelings, stale bread, and maybe even a few bits of meat. (Chickens are, after all, omnivores.) But with the exception of some pampered backyard hens, that hasn’t been true for a long time–corn and soy are grown to feed most of the nine billion chickens raised each year in the United States today.
Now a startup, Do Good Foods, is taking us back to the future. Each day, it collects food waste from nearby grocery stores, which it converts into highly nutritious chicken feed. Its first facility, in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania, processes 160 tons of food waste each day from 450 stores—enough to feed 25 million chickens a year. According to CEO Justin Kamine, each Do Good chicken stops about four pounds of surplus groceries from going to the garbage and eliminates nearly three pounds of greenhouse gases. The company plans to build a total of 20 facilities by 2025.
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