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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.

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

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. Mirasbek Kuterbekov is a Principal at Thia…
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Cell-Based News

Meatly ‘Proves Critics Wrong’ with Dramatic Cost Reductions for Cultivated Pet Food

Anay Mridul May 29, 2025

British pet food startup Meatly has announced a wave of breakthroughs that significantly slash the cost of cultivated meat, bringing it closer to price parity with chicken. Food tech innovators are continuing to make advancements that…
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Cell-Based News

Why Are Politicians Banning Cultivated Meat? New Study Explains It All

Anay Mridul May 29, 2025

Beef and lamb are among the foods that face the biggest threats from competition with cultivated meat, underscoring why some lawmakers want to ban the latter. One country and six US states have so far passed laws that prohibit companies…
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Cell-Based News

Ahead of Singapore Approval, Gourmey Teases Cultivated Meat That Costs $3.40 Per Pound

Anay Mridul May 28, 2025

A techno-economic analysis has found that French cultivated meat startup Gourmey's bioreactor system can reach production costs of $3.43 per lb. When you remove the politics of it all, people aren't as resistant to cultivated meat as…
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Fermentation-Based Alt Protein

This Startup’s Planet-Friendly Solution to Beef & UPFs? Oats, Mycelium & Lego

Anay Mridul May 28, 2025

Swedish food tech startup Millow is repurposing a Lego factory to produce an oat and mycelium protein with 97% fewer emissions than beef, and minimal processing. A result of three decades of research on mycelium, Millow is gearing up…
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Future Foods

Future Food Quick Bites: Quorn x Tom Cruise, Impossible Chicken & Cultivated Meat at Indy 500

Anay Mridul May 28, 2025

Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Impossible Foods' new vegan chicken, Quorn's Mission: Impossible collab, and a new kind of tempeh. New products and…
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Future Foods

Bee-Free Honey Startup MeliBio Acquired by Switzerland’s FoodYoung Labs

Anay Mridul May 28, 2025

Californian food tech startup MeliBio, known for its plant-based Mellody honey, has been acquired by Swiss innovation hub FoodYoung Labs. US bee-free honey startup MeliBio has been snapped up by FoodYoung Labs, a Swiss venture studio…
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Climate Change

Is Expensive Beef the New Reality for US Consumers & Restaurants?

Anay Mridul May 27, 2025

While beef consumption made a comeback in 2024, sustained demand and climate change have caused prices to reach record highs. Is this the new normal? Beef has never been more expensive in the US. And going forward, high prices may be…
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Green Business

Swap: French Plant-Based Chicken Startup Replaces CEO, Seeks Emergency Funding

Anay Mridul May 27, 2025

The co-founder of French plant-based chicken startup Swap (ex-Umiami) has been forced to step down as CEO amid weak sales, with the firm reportedly needing $10M by the end of this year. Swap, the Parisian vegan chicken firm formerly…
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Research & Scientific Studies

GLP-1: Does Ozempic Make You Dislike Beef?

Anay Mridul May 27, 2025

A recent survey found that people taking GLP-1 drugs reduce their consumption of certain foods, including beef – but the demand remains, which gives vegan food producers a leg up. Can GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Mounjaro be a boon for…
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Pets

Vegan Pet Food ‘Most Effective’ Measure to Tackle Climate Footprint of Dogs & Cats

Anay Mridul May 27, 2025

A new review suggests that pets have a significant climate footprint, and the best way to lower their impact is to feed them nutritionally sound plant-based food. Globally, a tenth of all meat is consumed by cats and dogs, a share that…
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