Maggot Eating Good!

The Jungle fowl from which all domestic chickens (the planet's most numerous bird) were derived would have been well-versed in gobbling the odd fly grub (they are packed with nutrients, including protein). A UK chicken farm has experimented with replacing the chicken's 'normal' soy-derived pellet diet with handfulls of Black soldier fly grubs ( https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/14/grubs-up-why-maggot-meals-are-a-hit-on-one-uk-chicken-farm). Not only do the chickens show apparent great enthusiasm for this new diet (with 'scratch dances' etc) but productivity, in terms of egg laying, is improved. The maggots are easily cultivated and, by reducing the demand for soya, they might well limit deforestation. In areas, like Brazil, trees are cut down to make land suitable for soya growing. Soya is mainly used to feed domestic cattle and fowl.