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- Former Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman, Obama policy advisor and chef to the Obama family Sam Kass, and chef Tom Colicchio, are pairing up with Do Good Foods – a company collecting waste from 450 markets across the country to make chicken feed.
- “The company’s closed loop system collects foods such as fruits, vegetables, and meats after human donations can occur, and upcycles them into a nutrient-dense animal feed to create sustainable animal protein,” Do Good Foods said in a news release.
- The company said its first production facility in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania has the capacity to convert 60,000 tons of excess food annually.
An agriculture secretary under George W. Bush, a policy advisor and family chef for Barack Obama, and a chef and restaurant owner are joining forces with a company focused on curbing carbon emissions by feeding chickens with feed made from grocery store waste.
The trio, which includes former Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman, Obama policy advisor and chef to the Obama family Sam Kass, and chef Tom Colicchio, is pairing up with Do Good Foods – a company collecting waste from 450 markets across the country to make the chicken feed.
“The company’s closed loop system collects foods such as fruits, vegetables, and meats after human donations can occur, and upcycles them into a nutrient-dense animal feed to create sustainable animal protein,” Do Good Foods said in a news release.
The company said its first production facility in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania has the capacity to convert 60,000 tons of excess food annually and that it will replicate the process across the U.S. over the next five years.
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Kass, who reportedly serves as Do Good’s chief strategy officer, said at a roundtable with company founders Matthew and Justin Kamine that scalability of the company’s plan will be the marker of its success.
“We see a clear path to solving the problem of retail food waste,” Kass said, according to Fence Post. “That is a big deal. We could really make a massive impact.”
Do Good Chicken, the company’s sustainable, carbon reduced chicken is expected to hit supermarket shelves next year, and Colicchio said at the roundtable he intends to serve the Do Good Chicken at his restaurants.
“This is more than just a business. It is culturally important,” Colicchio said.
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