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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.

Future Foods

The 50CUT Burger: US Butchery Pat LaFrieda Embraces Blended Meat with Mush Foods Partnership

Anay Mridul Apr 15, 2024

US butchery Pat LaFrieda Meat Purveyors has partnered with mycelium meat startup Mush Foods to debut a burger made from the latter's 50CUT blend of mushroom root and beef. Months after announcing its move into US foodservice, New…
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Food & Nutrition

Flexitarian Diets Can Reduce Emissions & Help Meet 1.5°C Climate Goal: Study

Anay Mridul Apr 15, 2024

Certain dietary shifts can bring carbon benefits, according to a new study, which notes how plant-heavy flexitarian eating patterns can reduce greenhouse gas emissions (especially methane) and help the planet meet its 1.5°C goal. There…
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Funding News

The State of European FoodTech: Funding Declines, More Deals, Alt-Protein Wins & Promising Future

Anay Mridul Apr 12, 2024

Amid a backdrop of a fall in food tech investments globally, Europe also suffered a decline – but the number of financing deals went up, with food science and agtech funding on the rise, according to DigitalFoodLab's 2024 State of European…
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Seafood

Bluu Seafood Opens Europe’s First Cultivated Seafood Facility, Eyes Singapore Launch in 2025

Anay Mridul Apr 12, 2024

German cultivated fish startup Bluu Seafood relocated to Hamburg with the opening of a large-scale pilot plant to produce its salmon and rainbow trout, ahead of an expected launch in Singapore early next year. Bluu Seafood has opened…
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Fermentation-Based Alt Protein

The Live Green Co Announces Breast Milk Fat & Postbiotic Ingredient Made from Precison Fermentation

Anay Mridul Apr 12, 2024

Boston-based AI food tech company The Live Green Co is tackling infant nutrition and gut health with a human breast milk fat and a postbiotic ingredient made from precision fermentation. A year after announcing its precision…
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Policy & Regulation

‘Music to Our Ears’: Meat Lobby Celebrates ‘Positive Outcomes’ for Industry at COP28

Anay Mridul Apr 12, 2024

As meat and dairy representatives turned out to COP28 in record numbers, the climate summit's promised food systems transformation policies fell short – and the livestock lobby is delighted. COP28 began with a lot of promises, but…
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Chocolate

Voyage Foods Pens Deal with Cargill to Expand Cocoa-Free Chocolate & Nut-Free Spreads

Anay Mridul Apr 11, 2024

Californian ethical pantry startup Voyage Foods has signed a commercial deal with food conglomerate Cargill to scale up the production and distribution of its cocoa-free chocolate and nut-free spreads. Cargill has announced a commercial…
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Alt Protein

French Court Suspends Government Ban on Use of Meat-Related Terms on Plant-Based Food

Anay Mridul Apr 11, 2024

France's top administrative court has suspended the government's decree to ban the use of words like 'steak' and 'ham' on plant-based meat analogues, which was approved earlier this year. The Conseil d’État has dealt a blow to the…
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Food & Nutrition

Food, Inc. 2 Sheds Light on Big Food, UPFs, Modern Slavery & Cultivated Meat – But Lacks Focus

Anay Mridul Apr 11, 2024

The sequel to the Oscar-nominated documentary from 2008, Food, Inc. 2 shows just how much power Big Ag wields on the food system, tackles solutions like cultivated meat and seaweed, and highlights the problem with workers' rights and UPFs.…
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Climate Change

Zara, H&M Linked to Illegal Deforestation & Human Rights Abuses with Brazilian Cotton Supply Chain

Anay Mridul Apr 11, 2024

Industrial cotton farming in Brazil that's sold to Asian suppliers of Zara and H&M is destroying the Cerrado savanna and violating the rights of local communities, a new investigation has revealed. Zara & H&M – two of…
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Climate Change

Swiss Government’s Climate Inaction Violates Human Rights, Rules Top European Court

Anay Mridul Apr 11, 2024

In a landmark ruling, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled in favour of a group of Swiss women, who said their government violated human rights by taking inadequate action on climate change. However, the court also threw out two…
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Alt Dairy

Plant-Based Dairy Just Became More Accessible for 7 Million American Women and Children

Anay Mridul Apr 10, 2024

The US Department of Agriculture has just updated its supplemental food as medicine programme for women and children, providing access to more produce and plant-based dairy products to nearly seven million low-income Americans. The US…
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Future Foods

Future Food Quick Bites: Vegan Shawarmas, Pamela Anderson & Jobs for Cats

Anay Mridul Apr 10, 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 Pamela Anderson's new vegan cookbook, OMNI's call for cat taste-testers…
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Alt Protein

Exclusive: Australia’s Harvest B Unveils Blended Meat Range Ahead of US Expansion & Series A

Anay Mridul Apr 10, 2024

Australian alternative protein startup Harvest B is entering the blended meat space with 50/50 slow-cooked beef and lamb SKUs, as it prepares for a US expansion and its Series A funding round. Known for its range of plant proteins,…
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Fermentation-Based Alt Protein

Ironic Biotech Bags €1M to Develop Iron-Rich Plant Proteins via Precision Fermentation

Anay Mridul Apr 10, 2024

Swedish food tech startup Ironic Biotech has raised €1M in pre-seed funding to accelerate the development of its plant-derived heme iron ingredient, which is produced via precision fermentation. The funding round was led by…
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Funding News

US Banks Have Provided $134B in Livestock Funding Since 2016, With Nestlé & ADM Biggest Beneficiaries

Anay Mridul Apr 9, 2024

Despite net-zero plans, banks in the US are fuelling the expansion of industrial livestock production by financing corporations whose emissions are higher than all of Japan, according to new research. A total of 58 US banks provided…
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Alt Protein

New Zealand Plant-Based Pioneer Sunfed Meats to Shut Down After Post-Pandemic Pressures

Anay Mridul Apr 9, 2024

One of Asia-Pacific's foremost plant-based meat companies, New Zealand-based Sunfed Meats, is shutting down after facing supply chain pressure, high costs, and a loss of faith from its investors. A week after it emerged that investors…
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Alt Dairy

THAIFEX-HOREC Asia 2024: Plant-Based Milk Steals the Vegan Show at Thailand Trade Fair

Anay Mridul Apr 9, 2024

At the inaugural THAIFEX-HOREC Asia in Bangkok last month, representation for veganism was strong, particularly for plant-based milk, with a host of startups presenting new innovations in the space. March brought with it scorching heat…
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Climate Change

Educational Injustice: How Climate Stressors are Affecting Children’s Education

Anay Mridul Apr 9, 2024

A review of climate studies has revealed how global heating and extreme weather events have affected children's education and performance in schools. There is ample evidence about the effects of climate change on children's mental and…
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Funding News

Climate & Animal Activists Urge World Bank to Stop Financing Factory Farms

Anay Mridul Apr 8, 2024

The World Bank's private sector arm is facing calls from climate and animal rights campaigners to phase out its financial support to industrial livestock farming. Friends of the Earth, Compassion in World Farming and other climate and…
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Alt Protein

Liberation Labs Raises Further $12.5M to Support Construction of Precision Fermentation Facility

Anay Mridul Apr 8, 2024

US biotech manufacturing firm Liberation Labs has secured $12.5M in funding to support the ongoing construction of its large-scale production facility in Indiana, ahead of its Series A round. Liberation Labs' latest capital injection of…
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