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Anay is Green Queen's resident news reporter. Originally from India, he worked as a vegan food writer and editor in London, and is now travelling and reporting from across Asia. He's passionate about coffee, plant-based milk, cooking, eating, veganism, food tech, writing about all that, profiling people, and the Oxford comma.

Alt Protein

The Tortured Pork Department: Taylor Swift Offers Vegan Meat at Eras Tour in Madrid’s Bernabéu Stadium

Anay Mridul May 30, 2024

Taylor Swift fans could buy plant-based meat dishes at her Eras Tour concerts in Real Madrid's Santiago Bernabéu Stadium. "You smoked, then ate seven vegan nuggets." Taylor Swift may not exactly have butchered the lyrics to her…
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Cell-Based News

BioCraft Pet Nutrition’s Cultivated Mouse Meat Now Costs the Same as Premium Pet Food

Anay Mridul May 30, 2024

Austrian-American cultivated meat startup BioCraft Pet Nutrition has achieved price parity with premium pet food by reimagining the growth media for its mouse meat. BioCraft Pet Nutrition has achieved a breakthrough in its production…
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Health

AkkMore: Can This Fungi Fat Help Restaurants Tackle Obesity and Enhance Gut Health?

Anay Mridul May 30, 2024

Researchers in Hong Kong have developed a fungi-derived fat alternative that can decrease the fat content of a product and improve gut health and metabolic benefits. The alt-fat world has been blossoming lately. Microbes, microalgae,…
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Future Foods

This Chocolate Is Made With All Parts of the Cocoa Fruit – and Nothing Else

Anay Mridul May 29, 2024

Lower sugar, lower emissions, lower waste – it's a chocolate bar that can do it all, and uses it all. Can this sustainable indulgence save chocolate and the world? Switzerland is renowned as one of the chocolate capitals of the…
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Climate Change

UK Election 2024: Tories Have Received £8.4M from Fossil Fuel Lobby and Climate Deniers Since 2019

Anay Mridul May 29, 2024

As the UK gears up for another election, an investigation shows the Conservative Party has accrued £8.4M in donations from fossil fuel interests and climate deniers since winning the last election in 2019. July 4 is a big day for the…
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Future Foods

Future Food Quick Bites: Vegan Indian, EU Elections & Squeezy Mayo

Anay Mridul May 29, 2024

In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers a new vegan restaurant in India, blended meat for kids, and Oatly's…
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Vegan

Ferrero to Finally Launch Vegan Nutella in Europe This Autumn

Anay Mridul May 29, 2024

As the famed hazelnut spread turns 60, confectionery giant Ferrero will introduce a vegan version of Nutella in Europe later this year. In the TV show How I Met Your Mother, there's an episode where all the main characters contend with…
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Policy & Regulation

Ahead of EU Elections, Here’s How Parties View Plant-Based Policy Issues

Anay Mridul May 28, 2024

A survey of 60 Europarties and national parties outlines the political stance on plant-based policies ahead of the EU elections in June. Next month, people in the EU will take to the ballot in the bloc's latest elections, at a time when…
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Policy & Regulation

What Denmark’s Proposed Carbon Tax Could Mean for Farmers & Emissions

Anay Mridul May 28, 2024

Denmark is considering a proposal that would see it introduce a carbon tax on agricultural production, but it has raised concerns about farmers' livelihoods. Could it really happen? In late February, an advisory group commissioned by…
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Alt Dairy

Molecular Farming Startup NewMoo Debuts Liquid Casein from Soybeans for Animal-Free Cheese

Anay Mridul May 28, 2024

Israeli startup NewMoo is using soybean plants to produce casein proteins in liquid form for animal-free cheese applications, with plans to partner with the dairy sector. As the molecular farming space continues to blossom, NewMoo has…
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Food & Nutrition

Land Grabs & Carbon Offset Schemes are Threatening Farmers & Food Production: New Report

Anay Mridul May 28, 2024

Land grabs and carbon offsetting schemes have sent land prices soaring, putting a strain on farmers, rural communities and food production, and threatening food security globally. Since the financial crash of 2007-08, global land prices…
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Alt Protein

Incubate & Commercialise: Two New Alternative Protein Centres Signal Industry’s Potential in India

Anay Mridul May 27, 2024

In the last week, two new centres dedicated to smart proteins have opened in Bengaluru, India, aimed at incubating alternative protein startups and helping them manufacture and commercialise their products. India has the third-largest…
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Cell-Based News

UK to Evaluate Novel Foods Based on Track Record of Regulatory Approval in Other Countries

Anay Mridul May 27, 2024

The UK's Food Standards Agency is set to announce plans to introduce a "sliding scale" mechanism for the regulatory approval of novel foods, which will take into account products' track record internationally. As regulation around…
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Human Rights

Hospital Didn’t Violate Human Rights with Lack of Vegan Food for Pregnant Woman, Rules Court

Anay Mridul May 27, 2024

A Danish court has thrown out a case brought by a woman who claimed her rights were violated after a hospital did not offer adequate vegan options during her pregnancy. Despite one district court recognising veganism as a protected…
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Climate Change

EU Cracks Down on ESG Investment Fund Names with New Greenwashing Rules

Anay Mridul May 27, 2024

The EU's corporate watchdog has finalised its guidelines on the requirements for investment funds to use environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) in their names, in an effort to combat greenwashing. The European…
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Alt Protein

Lidl Boosts Plant-Based Meat Sales by 7% by Putting Them in the Meat Aisle

Anay Mridul May 24, 2024

Lidl Netherlands has completed a successful pilot experiment by placing plant-based analogues next to meat in stores. The results? A 7% sales growth. Discount retailer Lidl is continuing its recent efforts to ramp up its vegan product…
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Consumer Trends & Insights

The Foodservice Playbook: How to Nudge Diners Into Picking Sustainable, Plant-Based Dishes

Anay Mridul May 24, 2024

People's decisions when eating out are heavily impacted by the dining environments they're in – here's how foodservice operators can nudge plant-based choices. A host of trials recently have shown the power of behavioural science…
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Consumer Trends & Insights

Business Guru Scott Galloway on the Four Things Plant-Based Meat Businesses Should Do

Anay Mridul May 24, 2024

Speaking on his Prof G Pod, marketing expert and professor Scott Galloway laid out the steps plant-based meat brands need to take to secure their future. Scott Galloway is a man known for being right when it comes to the business world.…
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Climate Change

Only 1% of Climate Reporting in Czech Media Tackles Animal Agriculture: Study

Anay Mridul May 24, 2024

Czech media outlets are vastly underreporting the link between food and climate change, despite the sector contributing to 7.6% of the country's emissions. The food system is responsible for a third of global greenhouse gas emissions,…
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Alt Protein

No Meat On the Riviera: Cannes Film Festival Bans Beef to Reduce Carbon Footprint

Anay Mridul May 23, 2024

Beef is on the chopping block (so to speak) at Cannes, one of the world's biggest film festivals, whose organisers acknowledge it is the "biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions" in the food system. While there may be some beef over…
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Future Foods

PoLoPo Submits Molecular Farming Platform for USDA Approval to Grow Egg Proteins in Potatoes

Anay Mridul May 23, 2024

Israeli startup PoLoPo has filed for USDA approval of its molecular farming platform, which genetically engineers potatoes to produce egg proteins within the plant. PoLoPo is pursuing regulatory approval in the US for its molecular…
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