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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.

Zero Waste

Notpla: Earthshot Prize Winner’s Seaweed Packaging Named ‘First and Only’ Plastic-Free Material Under EU Regulation

Anay Mridul Nov 6, 2023

Earthshot Prize-winning British startup Notpla's seaweed-based packaging has become the 'first and only' material recognised as plastic-free by a European Union country, following a nine-month verification process under the EU's Single-Use…
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Future Foods

Mush Foods CEO on Blended Meat: ‘We Don’t Need the Entire World to Go Vegan’

Anay Mridul Nov 3, 2023

Shalom Daniel, CEO of mycelium meat company Mush Foods, tells Green Queen about why the brand's ingredient is ideal for blended meat applications, why anti-meat investors believe flex meat is the solution, and its mission to halve global…
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Policy & Regulation

California Just Passed a New Carbon Offset Law – Here’s What It Means for Businesses

Anay Mridul Nov 2, 2023

The state of California has passed new climate laws that are meant to curb greenwashing linked with the voluntary carbon offsetting market, requiring companies and offset providers to be more transparent in their claims and disclosures.…
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Fermentation-Based Alt Protein

Precision Fermentation Egg Leader The EVERY Co: ‘Our Purpose is to Remake the Food System from Within’

Anay Mridul Nov 2, 2023

Silicon Valley startup The EVERY Co, which makes precision-fermented egg proteins, recently collaborated with Colombia's largest CPG food company. It signposts the company's increased retail focus, which its CEO Arturo Elizondo and…
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Research & Scientific Studies

Cutting Out Meat Twice a Week Can Offset Almost All Your GHG Emissions from Flights: Report

Anay Mridul Nov 2, 2023

Replacing 30% of meat consumption with plant-based alternatives could offset almost all of global aviation emissions, free up a carbon sink the size of India, and save all the cows alive in the US today, according to a new report by…
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Future Foods

Singapore Trade Minister on Food Tech Ecosystem: ‘Come to the Best Place in the World for Food Innovation’

Anay Mridul Nov 2, 2023

Singapore is host to Rethink's Asia-Pacific Agri-Food Innovation Summit this week, where it's bolstering its role as a leader in the APAC food tech ecosystem. Off the back of a newly announced food safety bill that will advance novel food…
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Vegan

World Vegan Day 2023: 10 Key Stats on Progress, Problems and Potential

Anay Mridul Nov 1, 2023

Today marks the 29th World Vegan Day, and the start of World Vegan Month. We'll see a host of announcements, launches, and releases, especially leading up to Veganuary – but how far has veganism come, and how far does it have to go? Here…
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Seafood

Vegan White Fish: Nestlé Adds to the Growing List of Plant-Based Seafood Launches

Anay Mridul Nov 1, 2023

Nestlé has announced the launch of three new vegan white fish SKUs in Europe and Asia, as it becomes the latest brand to release a plant-based seafood product to cater to the growing demand for seafood and sustainable proteins. Nestlé…
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Future Foods

Future Food Quick Bites: Pasta Partnerships, Killer Commercials & Christmas Incoming

Anay Mridul Nov 1, 2023

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 an upcycled pasta partnership at Cambridge, the UK getting into…
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Cell-Based News

Out of This World: Growing Meat in Space for the Better for the Planet

Anay Mridul Nov 1, 2023

Two projects funded by the European Space Agency have looked at the viability of producing cultivated meat in space to provide more sustainable food for astronauts. The results are promising. There is so much regulatory red tape around…
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Future Foods

Mushrooms For Climate: Urban Fungi Startup Tupu Reels in $3.2M in Seed Funding

Anay Mridul Oct 31, 2023

Berlin-based agtech startup Tupu has raised $3.2M in a seed funding round to grow mushrooms directly in cities. The firm combines its patent-pending modular farming tech with bioscience, robotics and artificial intelligence to offer…
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Singapore

New Singapore Food Safety Bill To Offer More Clarity for Novel Foods Like Cultivated Meat

Anay Mridul Oct 31, 2023

Singapore is working on a Food Safety and Security Bill that would offer greater clarity on regulatory frameworks for novel foods like cultivated meat and help prevent foodborne illnesses like the ones suffered from raw seafood, which…
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Climate Change

Climate-Resilient Coffee: Meet Amatera, The French Startup That Raised €1.5M to Accelerate Its Perennial Crop Tech

Anay Mridul Oct 31, 2023

French biotech startup Amatera, which develops non-GMO, climate-friendly perennial plants using crop genetics technology, has closed a €1.5M pre-seed funding round to speed up production of its regulatory-compliant coffee varieties. …
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Seafood

Vegan Caviar: The 5 Best Plant-Based Brands to Make Your Next Ultra-Luxe Dinner Party Roe-markable

Anay Mridul Oct 31, 2023

Molecular gastronomy is great and all that, but if you're looking for minimum fuss, some brands are making vegan caviar that will have your dinner guests doubting you. Caviar isn't something that most of us eat on the regular – and…
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Food & Nutrition

APAC Countries Suffer from Increasing Food System Risks, According to a New Index

Anay Mridul Oct 31, 2023

Food system risks are increasing in most Asia-Pacific countries despite higher production and better access to food, with market instability and slow climate improvements leaving many countries vulnerable to human health and nutrition…
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Cell-Based News

Can Industry Collaboration Help Accelerate the Regulatory Approval of Cultivated Meat in APAC?

Anay Mridul Oct 30, 2023

Launching this week, a new platform of industry stakeholders across nine Asia-Pacific countries is looking to facilitate collaboration to advance the regulatory approval of cultivated meat in the region. Established by the APAC Society…
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Health

Nutri-Score and Eco-Labels: Is Carbon & Nutrition Labelling the Future of Food Packaging?

Anay Mridul Oct 30, 2023

Consumers are more focused on personal and planetary health than ever before, governments are clamping down on greenwashing, and businesses are offering services to cut climate impacts and provide better labelling – are labels like…
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Policy & Regulation

COP28: UN Climate Summit Confirms Two-Thirds of Food Will Be Meatless This Year

Anay Mridul Oct 30, 2023

Months after confirming that this year's UN climate summit will have a "mostly vegan" menu, the COP28 Presidency has announced that two-thirds of the 250,000 meals served daily will be vegan and vegetarian. The move comes as experts…
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Cell-Based News

90% of Koreans are Willing to Try Cultivated Meat, with Price & Taste Key Targets for Producers

Anay Mridul Oct 30, 2023

A new report by the APAC Society for Cellular Agriculture (APAC-SCA) has revealed that an overwhelming majority of South Koreans are willing to try cultivated meat at least once, while price and taste remain key barriers. Regulatory…
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Vegan

Nusantara by Locavore, Bali Review: A Vegan Tasting Menu Fit for the Island of Gods

Anay Mridul Oct 28, 2023

Nusantara, an Indonesian eatery by the world-renowned Locavore restaurant group in Bali, celebrates the indigenous dishes from around the archipelago in a spectacular vegan tasting menu that is not to be missed. Locavore – which is…
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Consumer Trends & Insights

Americans are Buying & Paying More for Sustainably Marketed Products: Report

Anay Mridul Oct 27, 2023

Despite many politicians opposing climate funding – and some denying climate change altogether – a survey of 2,700 Americans shows that people are buying products with sustainability messaging more than conventional ones, as well as…
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