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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.

Funding News

The Green Dairy: Ikea Pumps $8.6M into Plant-Based Milk Producer to Become Majority Owner

Anay Mridul Dec 19, 2025
Ikea's VC arm, Ingka Investments, has bought a majority stake in Sweden's The Green Dairy, which makes plant-based products from oats and fava beans, with an 80 million kronor ($8.6M) investment. Long known for its interest in the…
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Fermentation-Based Alt Protein

Yeastup Opens Large-Scale Factory to Produce Proteins from Beer Waste

Anay Mridul Dec 18, 2025
Swiss food tech startup Yeastup has opened an industrial-scale facility to repurpose spent brewer's yeast into proteins and functional ingredients. It's now raising another Series A round. Switzerland's Yeastup has opened an…
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Alt Dairy

Carbon Cream: Can Solein Protein Change the Game for Dairy-Free Alternatives?

Anay Mridul Dec 18, 2025
Solar Foods has teased Solein Cream as one of many applications for its gas-derived protein, with a three-ingredient solution that could solve the bottlenecks for non-dairy products. An emulsion of water, oil, and carbon could usher in…
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Alt Protein

US Senator Adam Schiff Floats Bill to Fund National Alternative Protein Strategy

Anay Mridul Dec 18, 2025
US Senator Adam Schiff has introduced a new bill to allocate over $500M in federal R&D funding and create a national strategy for alternative proteins. A new bill calls on the US government to develop a national protein…
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Funding News

Those Vegan Cowboys Milks $7.3M in Funding to Launch Animal-Free Casein in 2026

Anay Mridul Dec 18, 2025
Dutch-Belgian startup Those Vegan Cowboys has raised €6.25M ($7.3M) to scale up its cow-free dairy protein. It's eyeing a 2026 US launch, having secured regulatory clearance. Those Vegan Cowboys has taken a major step towards bringing…
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Alt Protein

Exclusive: Livekindly Collective Snaps Up TiNDLE Foods’s Plant-Based Meat Business in Three Countries

Anay Mridul Dec 17, 2025
Livekindly Collective has made its latest acquisition in the plant-based meat sector, taking over TiNDLE Foods' foodservice business in the US, the UK and Germany. A month after announcing its plans to divest from the US and focus on…
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Policy & Regulation

‘Missed Opportunity’: EU Biotech Act Excludes Novel Foods from Regulatory Sandboxes

Anay Mridul Dec 17, 2025
The EU's first Biotech Act has proposed to expand the support given to companies looking for novel food approval, but has kept these products out of the scope of regulatory sandboxes. Despite promising a regulatory overhaul for novel…
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Future Food Quick Bites

Future Food Quick Bites: Emily in Paris, Beyond Tenders & Formula 1

Anay Mridul Dec 17, 2025
Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Emily in Paris's creamer collab, Beyond Meat's tenders, and Formula 1's blended beef trick. New products and launches …
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Alt Protein

Illinois Charts Path to Boost Economy & Food Security with Sustainable Proteins

Anay Mridul Dec 17, 2025
The Illinois Alternative Protein Innovation Task Force has released a report on how the state can build on its biomanufacturing leadership to strengthen its economy and food sovereignty. Illinois can generate new income streams for…
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Alt Dairy

US House Passes Bill for Non-Dairy Milk in Schools, With Trump Expected to Sign

Anay Mridul Dec 16, 2025
The US House of Representatives has passed the FISCAL Act to expand access to plant-based milk in school lunches. President Donald Trump is expected to sign it into law. Plant-based milk is one step closer to being available on school…
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Climate Change

Top US Food Outlets Serving Up ‘Climate Disaster’ with Beef Recipes on Social Media

Anay Mridul Dec 16, 2025
The annual carbon footprint of beef recipes promoted by the US's leading food outlets on social media exceeds that of Belgium, shows new analysis. The media's influence on sustainable eating is under the spotlight once again, with a new…
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Alt Protein

Exclusive: MEP Anna Strolenberg on Why the EU’s ‘Veggie Burger’ Ban Reached A Deadlock

Anay Mridul Dec 16, 2025
The EU has postponed its decision on the proposed ban of meat-like terms on plant-based product labels. Dutch MEP Anna Strolenberg takes us behind the scenes of the negotiations. The European Union simply didn't have enough time to form…
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Cell-Based News

Joes Future Food Completes Construction of China’s Largest Cultivated Meat Facility

Anay Mridul Dec 16, 2025
Chinese startup Joes Future Food has built the country's largest pilot plant for cultivated meat, after completing the world’s first scaled trial production run of its pork. In a sign of China's biotech prowess, Nanjing-based Joes…
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Climate Change

Fan Travel & Food the Largest Sources of Live Music’s Climate Footprint, Finds Coldplay-Backed MIT Study

Anay Mridul Dec 15, 2025
A new MIT study calculates the climate impact of the live music industry, identifying fan travel and food and beverage as the biggest sources of emissions. How audiences travel to concerts and the kind of food they're served have the…
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Alt Protein

Thai Government Calls for Shift to Plant-Rich Diets as Sales of Meat Alternatives Spike

Anay Mridul Dec 15, 2025
A Thai government agency has kicked off a campaign calling for a transition to a plant-rich food system, citing better health, climate and economic outcomes. Thailand has become the latest government to endorse a transition towards…
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Green Business

Backed by UK Government, MiAlgae’s New Factory to Produce Fish-Free Omega-3 from Whisky Waste

Anay Mridul Dec 15, 2025
Scottish biotech player MiAlgae has begun construction of a commercial-scale facility to recycle whisky waste into algal omega-3, with a £3M investment from the UK government. Plunging deep into the fish-free omega-3 space, Scotland's…
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Climate Change

Food System Set to Be Second Fastest-Growing Green Economy Sector, But More Funding Needed

Anay Mridul Dec 12, 2025
The global green economy is outpacing all industries except tech, and within the sustainability sector, food and agriculture is poised to be the second fastest-growing segment. Despite what headlines might suggest, the global…
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Alt Protein

10 Things We Learned About China’s Alternative Protein Ecosystem in 2025

Anay Mridul Dec 12, 2025
It has been a big year for China's future food economy – here are the 10 trends that defined the country's alternative proteins space in 2025. From regulatory wins and public investment to patent filing and a restaurant boom, China's…
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Funding News

Shark Tank India Success Earthful Bags $3M to Fuel Women’s Nutrition with Plant Protein

Anay Mridul Dec 12, 2025
Indian sister-owned plant-based nutrition brand Earthful has raised ₹26 crores ($2.9M) in pre-Series A funding to support the expansion of its women's health products. Months after appearing on national television with Shark Tank India,…
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Cell-Based News

Fork & Good Partners with Nutreco & Extracellular for Affordable, Scalable Cultivated Meat

Anay Mridul Dec 11, 2025
US cultivated meat startup Fork & Good has signed a strategic collaboration with Nutreco and Extracellular to scale up its beef and pork in a cost-efficient manner. Weeks after acquiring fellow cultivated meat producer Orbillion Bio…
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Fermentation-Based Alt Protein

Bühler Teams Up with Pow.Bio to Advance AI-Powered Precision Fermentation

Anay Mridul Dec 11, 2025
Swiss manufacturing giant Bühler Group has collaborated with US firm Pow.Bio to launch an AI-led continuous precision fermentation technology. Addressing a major bottleneck of food biomanufacturing, a new partnership seeks to advance…
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