Are your Farmgate Layers Pellets/Mash “vegetarian” diets and do they include GM soya beans or maize?
We do not make vegetarian claims for our layers feeds as we feel that this implies that other feeds are sub standard and in turn has a negative impact on the agricultural industry as a whole. There are no mammalian protein meals included in the diets for the simple reason that legislation does not allow them to be used, as a company BOCM PAULS has not used poultry offal products for over 20 years. Economically fishmeal is not an attractive ingredient and in recognition of the preference of many customer we have chosen to exclude this ingredient from the diet specifications. Therefore the Farmgate Layers Pellets is effectively a “vegetarian” feed. On the question of GM technology we have taken the view that we will only include soya products from beans grown in Brazil in the Farmgate rations, this is in acknowledgement of the fact that many of our customers for these feeds require assurances about the GM status. Since it remains illegal to plant GM soya beans in Brazil we regard this so
