Food Waste to Animal Feed
Food Waste to Animal Feed
By Michael L Westendorf Westendorf, M. L. (Ed.). (2000). Food waste to animal feed. John Wiley & Sons.
‘Food Waste to Animal Feed’ written by Michael L Westendorf deals with the issue of food-waste disposal and its concern for the inconsistency of quality for wet and processed food waste. This is of concern to the audience of consumers, environmentalists and the food processing industry. The format of the book is an in-depth critical analysis for explaining the subject of food waste and its uses as animal feed.
Michael L Westendorf is an Animal Sciences Extension Specialist of Rutgers, the Land Grant university of New Jersey (NJ). He is a highly experienced Associate Professor and Assistant Professor who teaches the undergraduate programme of Extension Specialist in Animal Sciences. He conducts research related to animal agriculture and create outreach and Extension programs that serve the needs of America, farmers, and the livestock. He works closely with Rutgers Cooperative Extension faculty, the State departments of Agriculture and Environmental Protection, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), and the NJ Farm Bureau. Michael has a Ph.D degree in Animal Science/ Remninant and has written, prepared, and presented educational materials, both electronic and audiovisual, to NJ farmers and national audiences about animal waste and nutrient management, feeding by-products or food wastes to animals, the well-being of farm animals, and biosecurity.
His work is relevant to my topic in waste disposal, both our focus in the issue is from the concern we share of the environment. Though my focus is on household waste and Michael’s focus is on rural and industrialism; it helps to contrast the size of the impact. Michael deals within a national and global trade with the exporting/importing trade of consumption of animal feed and waste as a business. I am speaking to audiences at a household capacity, my audience is effective in reaching to one family household at a time, counting one person’s effort one at a time. Meanwhile, the capacity of business processing industry,
it affects a large audience all at once-nationally and globally. This tells me that waste prevention is actually a business strategy. The nature of business produces alot of waste-such as producing masses of food packaging and printing, meaning environmental activists and society often frown upon businesses that are only interested in making money over creating more sustainable ways to manage their production.
