Amazingly, seaweed (macro-algae), and micro algae, are showing promise to grow in pig slurry to then be a nutritious food back to the pigs.
Whilst this isn’t a source of seaweed WE WOULD EVER SELL OR PROMOTE FOR PEOPLE FOOD, for pig food, this could show real promise and be a sustainable way of working with waste to make a useful product in a nice, circular system
Read more at the article here from
Algae and seaweed can be high in proteins, and certainly in key minerals, antioxidants, vitamin groups, trace elements, amino acids and more.
This all natural seaweed food, has, in studies using Ascophyllum nodosum seaweed, shown numerous benefits in pigs due to the prebiotic benefits of seaweed – this means that the seaweed passes through the to the lower intestine where it acts as food for the good bacteria, and can have all sorts of positive effects on the wider health of the animal due to improved nutrient absorption into the gut.
Seaweed for health is an area I will write about a lot. I don’t expect too many pig stories, as we’re really more interested in seaweed for health in people, but seaweed in the whole food chain is the future – added on the land, fed to animals and fed to us.
(PS it was only a few weeks ago I wrote about a Pork and Seaweed Sausage!)
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