IMBY by Curafyt · Insect protein for dogs

Your dog's food can be kinder to the planet

IMBY makes dog food with insect protein instead of meat. Here's what that saves.

What you save

Switch your dog to IMBY and see the difference in one year

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Switching your dog from beef dog food to IMBY saves as much CO₂ as a car makes in half a year. Every year.

Less CO₂ (the gas that warms the planet) 1,000kg or more
  • what a car emits driving 7,500 km
Less farmland 3,000m² or more
  • about 12 tennis courts of farmland

Based on a medium-sized dog eating 80 kg of food a year.

Water

Most of the water in meat goes into growing animal feed

  1. Feed crops drink the most

    Almost all the water behind meat goes into growing feed crops like corn and soy. Drinking is a tiny part.

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    Our larvae eat leftovers

    IMBY's black soldier fly larvae grow on leftovers from the food industry, not on crops grown for them.

The research behind it

The sustainability of insect protein has been studied. Here is what the research shows.

Same amount of protein. Shorter bars are better. The lighter part shows the range between studies.

CO₂ released

kg of CO₂ for 1 kg of protein

Insect
13–30
Chicken
19–37
Beef
77–175

Beef: at least 2.5 times more

Farmland needed

m² of farmland for 1 kg of protein

Insect
0–3
Chicken
41–51
Pork
46–63
Beef
142–254

Insects on leftovers need almost none

Where it comes from

Meet the black soldier fly: it grows fast, on very little

Illustration of a black soldier fly

One life cycle: a few weeks

  1. Egg hundreds per female
  2. Larva eats leftovers, grows fast
  3. Pupa rests and changes
  4. Fly lives about a week

We use the larva: rich in protein, raised on plant leftovers.

Our promise

Good for the planet, and complete for your dog

Insect protein
The 10 protein building blocks (amino acids) your dog must get from food
Meat protein
✓ Arginine ✓
✓ Histidine ✓
✓ Isoleucine ✓
✓ Leucine ✓
✓ Lysine ✓
✓ Methionine ✓
✓ Phenylalanine ✓
✓ Threonine ✓
✓ Tryptophan ✓
✓ Valine ✓
A full match: insects give your dog every building block that meat does.

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Beyond the bowl

Responsible choices across Curafyt

Animal health

Maintaining animal health to combat antibiotic resistance

Healthy animals need fewer treatments. Our supplements support that, alongside (never instead of) what your vet prescribes.

Our operations

CO₂ neutral office building

Our office building is CO₂ neutral: energy-efficient, running on renewable energy.

Packaging

Fully recyclable packaging

Our jars are a single recyclable plastic (PET): lighter than glass to ship, shatterproof around horses, and pharmaceutical grade.

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