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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 Dairy

US Senate Advances Bipartisan Bill to Offer Non-Dairy Milk in School Meals

Anay Mridul Jun 5, 2025

The US Senate Agriculture Committee has voted in favour of a bill that would allow students access to plant-based milk in their school lunches. Democrats and Republicans have unanimously advanced legislation that will put almond milk in…
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Future Foods

5 Minutes with A Future Food VC: Siddhi Capital’s Steven Finn

Anay Mridul Jun 5, 2025

In our interview series, we quiz future food investors about the solutions that excite them the most, their favourite climate-forward restaurant, and what they look for in successful founders. Steven Finn is the Co-Founder and…
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Circular Economy

New Era for Green Burials? Mycelium Caskets Make US Debut in Maine Funeral

Anay Mridul Jun 5, 2025

Mark C Ancker was laid to rest in a casket made from mushroom mycelium, a first for North America. It signals the growing popularity of green burials in the US. In rural Maine, artist Marsya Ancker buried her father Mark on a quiet…
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Cell-Based News

Leading Islamic Authority Approves Consumption of Cultivated Meat for Muslims

Anay Mridul Jun 5, 2025

In its latest conference in Doha, the International Islamic Fiqh Academy ruled that Muslims can consume cultivated meat if certain conditions are met. The world's two billion Muslims can eat cultivated meat, according to a fatwa by a…
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Green Business

Dutch Poultry Giant Plukon Acquires Meat-Free Startup Vega Insiders

Anay Mridul Jun 4, 2025

Plukon Food Group, a Dutch poultry producer, has snapped up local meat-free startup Vega Insiders to strengthen its alternative protein portfolio. Netherlands-based poultry giant Plukon Food Group has acquired Vega Insiders, a producer…
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Future Foods

Future Food Quick Bites: Vegan RXBar, NotMilk Avena, Pre-Frozen Tofu

Anay Mridul Jun 4, 2025

Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Kellanova's plant-based RXBars, Vivera's pre-frozen tofu, and a cultivated seafood tasting event. New products and…
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Cell-Based News

Wildtype Cultivated Salmon Gets FDA Approval, Now on US Menus

Anay Mridul Jun 4, 2025

San Francisco startup Wildtype has become the world's first startup to get US regulatory approval to sell cultivated seafood, with its salmon now on the menu at Kann in Portland, Oregon. Cultivated seafood has cruised to become a…
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Health

Replacing Meat with Plant-Based Food Leads to Weight Loss in People with Type 1 Diabetes

Anay Mridul Jun 4, 2025

For people with type 1 diabetes, switching from animal products to plant-based foods is an effective strategy for weight loss. While vegan alternatives to animal products are often labelled as unhealthy due to their classification as…
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Food & Nutrition

UK Urged to ‘Make Beans More Appealing’ As Meat Consumption Goes Into Overdrive

Anay Mridul Jun 3, 2025

The UK eats twice as much meat as the global average, putting both public and planetary health at risk. The solution lies in plant-based whole foods, especially beans. Making whole foods like beans more appealing and increasing the…
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Alt Protein

Green Rebel x 7-Eleven Philippines: Southeast Asian Startup Expands Meat-Free Meals to 2,000+ Stores

Anay Mridul Jun 3, 2025

Indonesian plant-based meat pioneer Green Rebel Foods has rolled out two products at 7-Eleven Philippines, both as retail offerings and as part of in-store meals. While sales of meat alternatives are falling in certain markets, global…
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Pets

Cultivated Meat Generates 92% Fewer Emissions Than Beef Byproducts in Pet Food

Anay Mridul Jun 3, 2025

While pet food brands tout the use of animal byproducts as sustainable, a new analysis shows that products made with cultivated meat generate a fraction of the emissions. Producing meat from cellular agriculture instead of conventional…
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Funding News

Just 7% of Climate Finance Goes to Food Systems, Despite Huge Emissions Impact

Anay Mridul Jun 3, 2025

The food and agriculture industry requires 12 times more finance than current levels to reduce its environmental impact in line with global climate goals, a new analysis suggests. While agriculture accounts for a third of all greenhouse…
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Future Foods

Californian Startup Proves Commercial Viability of Cell-Based Chocolate

Anay Mridul Jun 2, 2025

California Cultured, a food tech startup making cocoa via cellular agriculture, has transitioned to large-scale biomanufacturing in a key breakthrough for the industry. US startup California Cultured has successfully moved from…
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Alt Dairy

Italian Vegan Cheesemaker Sends Cows on Vacation in New Milan Marketing Push

Anay Mridul Jun 2, 2025

Italian plant-based cheese startup Dreamfarm flooded the streets of Milan with tourists featuring cow masks as part of a new marketing campaign. The Milanese were amused last Wednesday. A group of tourists sporting cow masks and…
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Fermentation-Based Alt Protein

Most Brits Are Open to Precision-Fermented Foods, But Safety & Price Concerns Persist

Anay Mridul Jun 2, 2025

While up to two-thirds of UK consumers are willing to try precision-fermented products, fewer would consume them regularly, exhibiting the need to build familiarity and trust. Between 52% and 68% of Brits are open to trying foods made…
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Zero Waste

Tastewise: This Consumer Insights Platform Is Using AI to Help Food Companies Cut Waste – Here’s How

Anay Mridul Jun 2, 2025

Can artificial intelligence help companies cut food waste and advance one of the most easily achievable climate solutions? This platform is betting on it. Food waste costs the Earth up to five times more than the aviation industry. …
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Alt Dairy

This Brazilian Startup Is Taking on Amazon Deforestation with Nut Milk

Anay Mridul May 30, 2025

Tackling monoculture and deforestation in the Amazon, Cuíca is using Brazilian chestnuts to make a plant-based milk that spotlights Indigenous communities. Based in São Paulo, food tech startup Cuíca has introduced a whole chestnut milk…
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Funding News

What Do 2025’s Investment Trends So Far Tell Us About Alternative Proteins?

Anay Mridul May 30, 2025

After a decline in alternative protein investments in 2024, funding further fell by 28% in Q1 2025 compared to the same period a year ago. Analysts blame AI, high costs, and low sales. There's no other way to put it: 2024 was a bleak…
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Vegan Dining

More Plants, Better Seafood: Novotel Debuts Climate-Conscious Menus at All 600 Hotels

Anay Mridul May 30, 2025

At all 600 Novotel hotels, Accor Group has pledged to ban 350 endangered fish species as part of its responsible seafood policy, and set a goal to make menus more plant-forward. One of the world's largest hotel chains has made two major…
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Alt Protein

While Plant-Based Meat Sales Are Faltering, Blended Proteins Are Back in Vogue

Anay Mridul May 29, 2025

Discount retailer Aldi Nord has become the latest company to hop on the blended meat bandwagon with a burger made from 60% beef and 40% plant proteins in the Netherlands. As part of its move towards shifting protein sales in favour of…
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Future Foods

5 Minutes with A Future Food VC: Thia Ventures’s Mirasbek Kuterbekov

Anay Mridul May 29, 2025

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