Our company right now sources its feed from the by-products of other food production industries. There are several organic producers in the Halifax area, and a lot of them are currently paying to have their organics removed by a waste-hauling company that takes them to a composting facility. Nova Scotia has one of the most long-standing composting programs in Canada, so there's already this idea of collecting these organics.
We get a portion of those now, and that's what we're taking in. We're taking in residuals from other production companies. Right now, under the Canadian Food Inspection Agency rules and guidelines, the insect industry is only allowed to take what is deemed pre-consumer organics. This is organic waste that comes out of the back end of a grocery store, such as that bruised apple you didn't eat, or from a food production facility such as a bakery or a brewery. We can take all of that as our feedstock, and that's what allows us to really help close the chain of the food industry here.
We take the organics. We turn them into high-quality protein. We're efficient, and the soldier fly is efficient—my staff is efficient as well, but the soldier fly is really the powerhouse of our industry—at converting that organic biomass into protein biomass. Of all the insect species grown around the world right now on an industrial scale, the soldier fly is really taking over as one of the main species because of its high efficiency and its great feed conversion ratios.