In this age of climate change and environmental awareness, individuals and businesses alike have been starting and continuing to evaluate their own role in the system. The wine industry is no different, and is often one of the first industries…
Category: Environmental Science
Wine Industry Waste as a Protein Supplement for Tilapia Feed Diets: Rice Wine Edition
There has been a lot of interest lately regarding recycling wine industry residues to be useful and beneficial in many different areas, such as meat preservatives, animal feed, food nutrition boosters, disease ameliorators, and alternative fuels. Most research in this…
Winery Wastewater and Animal Manure: The New Alternative Fuel Source?
In this era of changing climate and the need for a more renewable energy resource, sources of biogas alternatives have been of popular demand. Put simply, biogas is the result of anaerobic digestion (breakdown of organic material in the absence…
Grape Residues as a Nutrition Booster for Hot Dogs?
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EeGNJGDBZSI/ThwY6fmjraI/ AAAAAAAAAZE/GwVWSgJBpGE/s1600/hot+dog.jpg Let’s face it: even though they may be tasty, hot dogs (a.k.a., frankfurters, wieners, etc) are really not very good for you. They are high in saturated fats and nitrites, and often are associated with questionable production practices (i.e.,…