Novel Seaweed Chicken Feed Feasibility (NSCFF)

气候变化是一场影响世界各地人民、环境和经济的全球危机，对那些资源最少的人来说影响更严重。毫无疑问，这是对人类生存的威胁。为了阻止变暖，我们需要减少75%的排放，并大幅增加地球上的生物多样性。对于我们的食物链来说，这意味着尽可能消除排放，并为人类和动物饲料寻找可持续的蛋白质来源，而不需要水和土地。我们将需要恢复我们的土壤，使我们的大部分农田生物多样化，并继续为世界人口提供适当的营养。海藻为我们提供了在英国种植营养密集型生物质的机会，而不需要投入更多的土地用于作物生产。海藻农场也有可能与海上风力发电场并存，这对两个行业都有好处。拟议的项目重点是创造能够在全球应对气候变化的斗争中释放海藻潜力的技术和基础设施。该项目旨在为Dulse建立英国第一个商业种植系统。Dulse是一种非常令人向往的红色海藻，可能成为一种可行的低排放本土蛋白替代品，以取代英国鸡肉饲料中的豆粕。Dulse是一种特别令人向往的富含蛋白质的红色海藻，具有许多促进生长的作用，到目前为止，事实证明，种植这种海藻具有挑战性。这项可行性研究将允许全面评估纯罐式养殖与海上养殖所需的栽培投入(和相应的排放)。该项目将使我们能够建立最具生物学和商业可行性的成功种植杜勒斯的路线。对纯池塘海藻和海上栽培海藻的生化分析将使我们能够选择最有营养和富含蛋白质的海藻品种。将在家禽饲料试验(体内)中测试生产和筛选出的DUSE的有效性和潜力，以探索海藻豆粕的替代潜力。由于Dulse具有免疫调节功能，具有改善肠道健康的巨大潜力，因此，它对肠道微生物群的影响可能有助于使用海藻来减少对抗生素的依赖。将通过研究其对肠道微生物多样性、抗菌素耐药性(AMR)和人畜共患病病原体的发生的影响，进一步探讨其对肠道微生物群的影响。

Climate change presents a global crisis that impacts people, environments and economies worldwide, with more severe impacts for those who have the least resources to combat them. It is unarguably an existential threat to humanity. To halt warming, we will need to reduce emissions by 75% and massively increase biodiversity across the planet. For our food chain, this means eliminating emissions wherever possible and finding sustainable sources of protein for human and animal feed without water and land needs. We will need to rehabilitate our soils, bio-diversify much of our agricultural land, and continue to offer appropriate nutrition to the world's population.Seaweed offers us an opportunity to grow nutrient-dense biomass in the UK without the need to commit more land to crop production. Seaweed farms also have the potential to be co-located alongside offshore wind farms, with benefits to both industries. The proposed project is focused on creating technology and infrastructure that can unlock the potential of seaweed in the global battle against climate change. This project aims to establish the UK's first commercial cultivation system for dulse, a highly desirable red seaweed that could become a viable low-emission home-grown protein alternative to replace soyabean meal in chicken feed in UK.Dulse is a particularly desirable protein rich red seaweed with many growth-promoting effects that has so far proved challenging to grow. This feasibility study will allow a full assessment of the cultivation inputs required (and corresponding emissions) for pure tank based vs. at-sea cultivation. The project will enable us to establish the most biologically and commercially viable route to successful cultivation of dulse. The biochemical analysis of the pure tank based vs. at-sea cultivated seaweed will allow us to select the most nutritious and protein-rich species of dulse. The efficacy and potential of dulse produced and selected will be tested in poultry feed trials (in vivo) to explore the seaweed soyabean meal replacement potential. As dulse has great potential to improve gut health, arising from its immune-modulating functions, as a consequence, its impact on the gut microbiome could contribute to the use of seaweed to reduce reliance on antibiotics. The impact of dulse on the gut microbiome will be further explored by studying its impact on gut microbial diversity, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and the occurrence of zoonotic pathogens.