{"id":13736,"date":"2014-07-28T05:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tested-neuron.flywheelsites.com\/?p=13736"},"modified":"2015-08-21T14:47:27","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T20:47:27","slug":"unfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unreasonablegroup.com\/articles\/unfire\/","title":{"rendered":"How Mango Seeds Help Chicken Farmers Cut Costs by a Third"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-vimeo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/99277563\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong style=\"color: #4c4d51;\">On an otherwise reasonable evening in July<\/strong><span style=\"color: #4c4d51;\">, more than 1,000 people packed an auditorium in Boulder, Colorado, for the culmination of the 2014\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #4ec0ec;\" href=\"http:\/\/unreasonableinstitute.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Unreasonable Institute<\/a><span style=\"color: #4c4d51;\">. They came to see\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #4ec0ec;\" href=\"http:\/\/unreasonableinstitute.org\/2014-unreasonables\/\" target=\"_blank\">11 ventures<\/a><span style=\"color: #4c4d51;\">\u00a0present their solutions to some of the world\u2019s greatest challenges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Watch here as Kelvin Ogholi, co-founder and COO of <a href=\"https:\/\/wary-sunlight.flywheelsites.com\/2014institute\/meet-an-unreasonable-venture-unfire\/\">UNFIRE<\/a>, explains how his company has reduced feed costs for Nigerian chicken\u00a0farmers by more than half. UNFIRE collects mango seeds from local fruit-juice companies\u2014for free, since the seeds would otherwise be discarded\u2014and processes them into chicken feed. 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