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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.

Health

New Research: Not All UPFs Created Equal, Plant-Based Meat Can Be Part of Healthy Diet

Anay Mridul Nov 22, 2023

Two new European health studies suggest that while a plant-rich, minimally-processed whole foods diet is ideal for good health, consuming some processed foods including bread and plant-based meat is perfectly fine. Another week,…
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Alt Protein

Eat Just’s Josh Tetrick On the Company’s Future: ‘Really Hard is Different Than Impossible’

Sonalie Figueiras Nov 22, 2023

We speak to Eat Just co-founder and CEO Josh Tetrick about recent concerns around the Californian food tech's financial health and what the future looks like for cultivated meat. Eat Just, the Californian food tech that makes the JUST…
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Future Foods

Future Food Quick Bites: Beyond Pizzas, Corporate Movers & Vegan Meal Donations

Anay Mridul Nov 22, 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 a host of developments for plant-based giants, corporate moves and a…
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Vegan Dining

50by25: Wagamama, Beyond Meat & Others Join Campaign to Make UK Restaurant Menus 50% Vegan

Anay Mridul Nov 22, 2023

Food industry giants like Wagamama, Beyond Meat and Alexis Gauthier have joined a new campaign calling for UK restaurants to make 50% of their menus plant-based by 2025. 50by25 is a joint effort from British vegan charity Viva! and Citizen…
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Climate Change

Carbon Inequality: Top 10% Account For 50% of Global Emissions, Richest 1% Linked To 1.3 Million Climate Deaths

Anay Mridul Nov 21, 2023

Ahead of COP28, a new climate inequality investigation, The Great Carbon Divide, assesses how the carbon emissions of the rich disproportionately affect lower-income and vulnerable populations. Plus, a UN report shows that current global…
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Cell-Based News

Cultivating the Future: A Wave of Cell-Cultured Meat Facilities are Popping Up Across the Globe

Anay Mridul Nov 21, 2023

The cultivated meat sector is seeing a flurry of activity from startups announcing new production facilities across the globe, as teams work to accelerate the scaling and commercialisation of cell-cultured alternatives to conventional…
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Alt Protein

Solar Foods: Solein Protein Maker Bags $8.8M in Series B Funding for New 2024 Factory

Anay Mridul Nov 21, 2023

Finnish startup Solar Foods has closed an oversubscribed €8M ($8.8M) Series B funding round to expand the production of its Solein protein made from air and support the construction of its Factory 01, slated to be operational in the first…
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Vegan

Burgreens, Bali – Tried and Tasted: Delicious Showcase of Green Rebel’s Plant-Based Meats

Anay Mridul Nov 21, 2023

While only a three-year-old company, Green Rebel is taking the Indonesian plant-based meat scene by storm. I visited Burgreens – its sister restaurant – in Canggu, Bali, which makes an array of dishes from across the world using the meat…
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Seafood

Famous for Wild Salmon, Canada Invests $11.4M in Whole-Cut Plant-Based Alternative

Anay Mridul Nov 20, 2023

Famed for its wild salmon, British Columbia's shift to industrial farming has brought threats to human and planetary health. To counter that, three companies are working on a whole-cut plant-based version of Canada's favourite fish, with…
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Policy & Regulation

‘A Paradigm Shift’: Germany Earmarks €38M Investment for Alt-Protein Transition in 2024 Federal Budget

Anay Mridul Nov 20, 2023

Germany has set aside €38M in investment for the promotion of alternative proteins and a switch to plant-based agriculture in its federal budget for 2024. This includes promoting the manufacturing and processing of plant-based, cultivated…
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Alt Protein

Plant-Based Egg & Cultivated Chicken Exec Josh Tetrick is The Only Alt Protein Founder Included On TIME100’s First Climate List

Anay Mridul Nov 20, 2023

Josh Tetrick, co-founder and CEO of Eat Just and its cultivated meat subsidiary GOOD Meat, has been named in the inaugural TIME100 Climate list of most influential business leaders – the only person from the alternative protein industry to…
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Food & Nutrition

Methylcellulose: What Is It, Why It’s Used in Plant-Based Meat, and Startups Making Alternatives

Anay Mridul Nov 20, 2023

As the meat industry continues to knock the long ingredient lists of certain plant-based meat alternatives, one element pops up more often in the discourse: methylcellulose. But what is this substance, and is it really unhealthy? Here's…
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Climate Change

How Do Social Media Users Feel About Climate Change? A New Mega Study Has Answers

Anay Mridul Nov 17, 2023

A new 110-country study conducted by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communications in partnership with Meta offers insights into the climate change beliefs, attitudes, policy preferences, and behaviours of Facebook users across the…
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Cell-Based News

‘Cultivating Ignorance’: Italy Passes Law to Become the First Country to Ban Cultured Meat

Anay Mridul Nov 17, 2023

It has been in the making for a while, but Italy has officially passed the law that bans the production and sale of cultivated meat within the country, with the far-right government citing health reasons, a risk to the country's tradition,…
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Future Foods

Cell Ag Expert Parendi Birdie on Her New Blended Meat Startup Asentia: ‘We’re Throwing Out the Black & White Thinking’

Anay Mridul Nov 17, 2023

After years of working with cellular agriculture companies, Parendi Birdie is now working on her own blended meat startup, Asentia. She tells Green Queen about launch plans, consumer testing, and the best way to market these products. …
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Food & Nutrition

Confused About a Food Fact? This New Platform Lets You Ask Scientists for an Expert Opinion

Anay Mridul Nov 17, 2023

Food information body the European Food Information Council has launched a new platform to debunk misinformation and help build science-based literacy around food. The Food Facts online community is part of the Sustainable Food System…
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Climate Change

The Asia F-List: How Fossil Fuel Companies are Gaslighting Asians with Greenwashing Campaigns

Anay Mridul Nov 16, 2023

A new report by marketing activism group Clean Creatives explores how Asia's fossil fuel industry is failing communities in the region, using greenwashing techniques to shift the blame from its climate impacts. These include loyalty credit…
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Climate Change

‘Woefully Inadequate’: 4 New Major Climate Reports Call Out Global Inaction

Anay Mridul Nov 16, 2023

As we get closer to COP28, the world's leaders are facing increasing calls to adopt policies and solutions that will help mitigate global heating and meet our climate goals – especially because we're still so far away, according to four…
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Research & Scientific Studies

‘The Centre of Challenges & Solutions’: 7 Alt-Protein Takeaways from GFI APAC’s State of the Industry Report 2023

Anay Mridul Nov 16, 2023

The Good Food Institute (GFI) APAC's first State of the Industry report highlights the funding rollercoaster that is alt-protein, Singapore's reputation as an innovation launchpad, barriers to the adoption of plant-based meat, and the…
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Climate Change

Meat Kills: How Cigarette-Style Warnings Could Help Cut the UK’s Meat Consumption

Anay Mridul Nov 16, 2023

Cigarette-style warnings about the impact of climate change on food can cut meat consumption, according to a study by Durham University. Researchers found that adding pictorial climate warning labels deterred Brits from choosing meat…
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Alt Dairy

A Better Dairy-Free Ice Cream: Yali Bio Showcases Precision-Fermented Fat at Food Tech Event

Anay Mridul Nov 15, 2023

Californian food tech startup Yali Bio unveiled its precision-fermented fat at the MISTA Growth Hack event in San Fransisco, debuting the alternative with a dairy-free ice cream. Now, it plans to roll out its fat to manufacturers looking…
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