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How to source non-GM animal feed
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Option A: grow your own
The most sustainable and environmentally-sound option for farmers is to grow your own non-GM animal feed. Benefits include knowing exactly what you are growing, reducing your dependency on foreign imports, reduction of food miles and cutting the growing transport costs due to peak oil.
Former IFA Deputy President Ruaidhri Deasy and former ICSA Rural Development Chairman John Heney estimated that Ireland can maintain its current level of animal feed consumption from local production. Home-grown sources of non-GM animal feed include rolled oats, barley, lupins and crushed rapeseed.
Example: Mullingar-based TLT International (annual turnover € 15 million), currently exports some 1,200 to 1,500 non-GM fed store cattle a month to their prime Italian market. These cattle are fed on grass and from silage made from barley grown on their own farm.
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Option B: buy non-GM feed from a reputable source
Please let us know of any non-GM animal feed suppliers in Ireland or Northern Ireland by sending an email to us at feed@gmfreeireland.org.
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Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) www.admworld.com can provide non-GM soya, maize and oilseed rape feed products, and is already supplying non-GM feed to leading UK farmers.
ADM Specialty Ingredients (Europe) B.V.
Stationsstraat 76
1541 LJ Koog aan de Zaan
The Netherlands
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IMCOPA www.imcopa.com is a Brazilian family-run business which provides GM-free soybean imports that are controlled, certified, sustainable, ethical and consumer friendly - from family-owned farms in the State of Parana, Brazil. They say they can meet all of Europe's needs for animal feed soya products from certified non-GM sources. We believe they are very well run, with a very strict certification system in place. They ship into Europe via Rotterdam, and also have an office in Geneva. IMCOPA For more information download
GM-free soybean imports and availability: IMCOPA - a simple family story. Note: this is a 432kb PowerPoint presentation. You need Microsoft PowerPoint to open this document.
Joche Koester
IMCOPA (Europe) SA
14, Rue du Rhöne
1204 Geneva
Switzerland
tel (direct): + 41 22 819 1729
reception: + 41 22 819 1989
mobile: + 41 79 245 9113
fax: + 41 22 731 3364
email: jk@imcopa.com
web: www.imcopa.com
IMPCOPA Food Ingredients BV
Bruistensingel 132
5232 AC's Hertogenbosch
Netherlands
tel + 31 73 6408 690 ï fax + 31 73 6408 691
IMCOPA - Imp. Exp. e
Ind™stria de ²leos Ltda.
Av. das Arauc·rias, 5899
83707-000 Arauc·ria PR
Brazil
tel + 55 41 2141 8000 ï fax + 55 41 2141
email: imcopa@imcopa.com.br
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Non-GM feed for poultry
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Robert Hoey & Sons
212 Moorfields Road, Kells, Ballymena, Northern Ireland, tel: (028) 258 91924.
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Organic animal feed
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All certified organic animal feed in the EU is free of GM ingredients at the 0.1% detection threshold. The EC is trying to increase the threshold to 0.9%.
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