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A long-term committed ethical vegan and formerly Green Queen's resident plant-based reporter, Amy juggles raising a family and maintaining her editorial career, while also campaigning for increased mental health awareness in the professional world. Known for her love of searing honesty, in addition to recipe developing, animal welfare and (often lacklustre) attempts at handicrafts, she’s hands-on and guided by her veganism in all aspects of life. She’s also extremely proud to be raising a next-generation vegan baby.

Evolved Meats Scoops $2 Million To Secure Its Position As A Low-Cost Operator Within The Cultivated Sector

Amy Buxton May 24, 2022

Toronto-based cultivated meat player Evolved Meats, formerly known as CaroMeats, has secured $2 million in a seed funding round. Investment was led by Maple Leaf Foods, one of Canada’s largest protein companies. Big Idea Ventures, Garage…
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New Lawsuit Seeks To Make Accommodation Of Vegan Students A Human Right In Turkey

Amy Buxton May 24, 2022

The Vegan Association of Turkey has taken aim at the Turkish Council of Higher Education. The former has launched a lawsuit claiming that the latter has systematically overlooked vegan university students’ right to source nutritious and…
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Motif FoodWorks Unveils First Commercial Plant-Based Meat Line

Amy Buxton May 23, 2022

Boston-Based Motif FoodWorks has announced a new range of plant-based meat products. Dubbed Motif MoBeef, MoPork and MoChicken, launches will be staggered from now through to 2023. The products are aimed squarely at foodservice providers,…
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MeliBio and Eleven Madison Park Hosted An Exclusive World Bee Day Celebration

Amy Buxton May 23, 2022

California-based vegan honey maker MeliBio celebrated World Bee Day with Michelin-starred restaurant Eleven Madision Park (EMP) as the two came together in New York City to host an event which included cocktails and a four-course meal.…
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Peace of Meat & Enough Partner To Create Hybrid Mycoprotein Chicken Flavored With Cultivated Fat

Amy Buxton May 23, 2022

Israel-based MeaTech has confirmed its wholly-owned Belgian subsidiary, Peace of Meat, will be working with Scotland’s Enough, an innovator in the mycoprotein sector that specializes in fungi fermentation using renewable feedstocks.…
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Is Plant-Based Fish Made From Food Industry By-Products The Future Of Alt-Seafood? This Tempeh Startup Says Yes

Amy Buxton May 23, 2022

UK-based tempeh manufacturer Better Nature is expanding its product range to include alternative seafood. Using traditional tempeh fermentation techniques with food industry by-products, the company claims it can replace conventional fish.…
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Animal-Free Chocolate Milk Is Here Thanks To Perfect Day’s Partnership with Tomorrow Farms

Amy Buxton May 22, 2022

New York’s Tomorrow Farms is looking to ‘give cows a break’. The food tech is focused on creating animal-free milk and has partnered with Perfect Day. Tomorrow Farms will soon be launching its Bored Cow line of flavoured milk drinks,…
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Circular Economy

Sustainable Weddings Get A Celebrity Stylist Twist As Karla Welch Collaborates with Resale Giant ThredUP

Amy Buxton May 21, 2022

Karla Welch is a Los Angeles stylist who has worked with some of the biggest names in show business. Her looks have adorned supermodel Karlie Kloss, Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence and tennis legend Serena Williams, to name a few. Alongside…
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Superbrewed Food Secures GRAS Status For New Whole Food Protein Ingredient

Amy Buxton May 20, 2022

Delaware-based startup Superbrewed Food has been granted GRAS (generally recognised as safe) status for its postbiotic cultured protein development, marking the first microbiome protein to get approval by the U.S. Food and Drug…
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NotCo Enters US Foodservice Sector With Dairy-Free Shake Shack Collaboration

Amy Buxton May 20, 2022

Chilean food tech NotCo has partnered with U.S. fast casual burger chain Shake Shack. The two have developed a dairy-free chocolate custard and a chocolate shake to be tested in ten restaurant locations. The plant-based offerings will be…
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Mewery Looks To Slash Cultivated Pork Costs With Microalgae Ingredients

Amy Buxton May 20, 2022

Czech foodtech startup Mewery is developing cultivated pork on microalgae scaffolding. The company claims it is the first in Europe to be doing so. Using the regenerative plant base allows for significant production cost savings,…
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Animal-Free Cheese Maker Change Foods Awarded Second Government Grant In Less Than A Month

Amy Buxton May 20, 2022

The Australian Commonwealth Government has named Change Foods as a key partner in a new AUD$164 million Trailblazer Universities Food and Beverage Accelerator led by the University of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology…
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Jam ‘n’ Vegan Secures Veg Capital Backing For Chef-Made Ready Meals With A Cultural Twist

Amy Buxton May 19, 2022

Vegan investor Veg Capital, led by Veganuary and VFC co-founder Matthew Glover, has announced it has led a £200,000 seed round for U.K.-based Jam ‘n’ Vegan, which produces family favourite ready meals infused with world flavours. In…
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Circular Economy

This Resale Platform Just Scooped $14 Million To Help Brands Retain Their Consumer Bases

Amy Buxton May 19, 2022

Washington-based recommerce tech Recurate has secured $14 million in a Series A funding round, led by Jump Capital. The raise is the second-biggest for a resale platform, with the company seeking to target the peer-to-peer market. Previous…
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Hong Kong Exotic Pet Addiction Is A Travesty For Biodiversity Says New Report

Amy Buxton May 19, 2022

Hong Kong’s penchant for keeping exotic animals as pets is putting species at risk of extinction, a new study claims. Between 2015-2019, four million animals were imported into the country to be kept domestically, heightening the risk of…
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Israel Startup Bringing Its Plant-Based Sunny-Side-Up And Poached Eggs To US Restaurants

Amy Buxton May 19, 2022

Israeli food tech startup Yo! Egg has announced it will be launching into U.S. restaurants later this year. Its sunny-side-up and poached eggs are claimed to be the world’s first, by company CEO Eran Groner. The whole-egg analogues are…
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Imagindairy Closes $28 Million Seed Round Following Successful Funding Extension

Amy Buxton May 19, 2022

Tel Aviv-based precision fermentation startup Imagindairy has confirmed a $15 million seed extension round following its November 2021’s $13 million raise. Funding will be used for accelerated R&D efforts alongside new personnel hires.…
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Prakriti Varshney Becomes India’s First Vegan Woman To Conquer Everest

Amy Buxton May 18, 2022

On May 12, 2022, Prakriti Varshney made history. Aged 26, she became the first vegan Indian woman to scale Mount Everest. Setting out from the Everest Base Camp on May 7, the expedition team took just five days to reach the peak, following…
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GOOD Meat and ADM Confirm Strategic Partnership To Ramp Up Cultivated Meat Output

Amy Buxton May 18, 2022

Californian-food tech Eat Just has announced that its GOOD Meat cultivated chicken brand is now partnering with food processing giant ADM to help accelerate commercial rollout of GOOD Meat products. The collaboration marks the first…
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Willicroft’s Vegan Bean Cheese Nets $2.1 Million To Expand Across Europe

Amy Buxton May 18, 2022

Dutch bean-based plant-based cheese startup Willicroft has closed its pre-seed funding round, securing €2 million. The round was led by PINC and Rockstart with Döhler and Feast Ventures participating. Funding has been raised to support…
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This Chef Is Moving From Steakhouses To Sustainable ‘Symplicity Foods’ To Take On Beyond Meat

Amy Buxton May 17, 2022

Neil Rankin, founder of London steakhouse Temper, is entering the plant-based food sphere. The chef claims that he is fed up with alternative protein not quite hitting the right mark and claims he can do better. His gripes include Beyond…
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