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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.

Climate Change

A Sweet Transition: How Cutting Out Sugar Could Save the Planet

Anay Mridul Nov 22, 2024

A new study explores how we can transfer sugar intake from our diets into making products beneficial to the climate. In the last 30 years, the number of people with diabetes has doubled (making up 12% of the adult population), and 95%…
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Alt Protein

Vegan Ready Meal Leader Allplants Seeks Buyer to Rescue Business After Mounting Losses

Anay Mridul Nov 22, 2024

British plant-based ready meal maker Allplants has moved to appoint administrators after recording continued losses, though one potential buyer is lined up. Allplant, the UK's largest vegan ready meal brand, has filed a notice of…
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Zero Waste

UK Retailers Set Up Food Waste Redistribution Project to Feed Millions

Anay Mridul Nov 22, 2024

In a bid to boost food security and cut waste, some of the UK's biggest supermarkets and charities have joined forces to form a surplus food distribution body. Tesco, Sainsbury's and M&S are among 15 organisations that have come…
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Alt Protein

Culture & Collaboration: How Italy Can Become A Plant-Based Food Leader

Anay Mridul Nov 21, 2024

Italy's plant-based market is bucking the global decline, but there are several missed opportunities for companies and the industry as a whole. It has been two months since Gruppo Tonazzo, an Italian company that had been producing meat…
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Alt Protein

Wendy’s Partners with Beyond Meat to Launch Plant Burger in Georgia

Anay Mridul Nov 21, 2024

Beyond Meat and Wendy's Georgia have announced a new menu item, the Plant Burger, a marker of the vegan giant's European focus this year. Californian plant-based pioneer Beyond Meat has struck its latest QSR partnership with fast-food…
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Alt Protein

UK Startup Develops AI Software to Help Alt-Protein Industry Scale Up Faster & Lower Costs

Anay Mridul Nov 21, 2024

London-based New Wave Biotech has launched an AI bioprocess simulation software to help alternative protein companies expand production faster and cheaper. To address two of the biggest challenges facing alternative protein startups – …
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Policy & Regulation

Danish Parliament Agrees Green Deal to Tax Meat Production & Promote Plant-Based Foods

Anay Mridul Nov 21, 2024

After months of negotiations, Denmark's policymakers have agreed on how to implement the livestock emissions tax they announced in June. Denmark's bid to tax livestock farmers and turn farmland into forest has received a broad majority…
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Alt Dairy

Singapore Startup Strikes Deal to Launch Cow-Free Dairy Protein in Functional Coffee Drinks

Anay Mridul Nov 20, 2024

TurtleTree is aiming to launch its animal-free lactoferrin in canned coffee drinks in mid-2025 via a partnership with fellow Singapore startup Mad Foods. Singapore's TurtleTree, which uses precision fermentation to make a bioidentical…
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Seafood

Finneato Fysh Foods Hooks Shark Tank Deal for Squeezable Vegan Tuna

Anay Mridul Nov 20, 2024

Los Angeles-based food influencers Zoya Biglary and Alix Traeger landed a Shark Tank deal with Daniel Lubetzky for their vegan seafood startup Finneato Fysh Foods. Amid the rough waters for plant-based seafood, an up-and-coming brand…
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Future Foods

Future Food Quick Bites: Greggs x Nigella, Tyson vs Paul & A Whole Lotta AI

Anay Mridul Nov 20, 2024

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 new vegan parmesan products, an oat milk cocktail listing, and a bunch…
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Alt Protein

Stanford Researchers Are Using AI to Elevate the Texture of Plant-Based Meat

Anay Mridul Nov 20, 2024

Scientists at Stanford University suggest that machine learning and mechanical testing can deliver data that can speed up the development of better vegan meat alternatives. Sandpaper, a brain sectioning knife, and super glue. This…
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Cell-Based News

Forged Gras: Vow Becomes First Company to Launch Cultivated Meat in Hong Kong

Anay Mridul Nov 19, 2024

Australian cultivated meat startup Vow has been cleared to sell in Hong Kong, where it will debut cultured foie gras at the Mandarin Oriental. Six months after rolling out its cultured quail parfait in Singapore, Vow is expanding to…
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Climate Change

COP29 Digest, Vol 3: Everything You Need to Know in Food and Climate News Today

Anay Mridul Nov 19, 2024

Welcome to Volume 3 of Green Queen's #COP29 Digest. Here, our editorial team curates the must-reads, the must-bookmarks and the must-knows from around the interwebs to help you ‘skim the overwhelm’. Catch up: VOLUME 1 – VOLUME 2 …
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Alt Dairy

Oatly Whips Up Cake & Custard Giveaway with UK Rapper Giggs

Anay Mridul Nov 19, 2024

Swedish oat milk giant Oatly has teamed up with British rapper Giggs for a limited-edition drop of dairy-free cake and custard kits. A ceramic plate, a steel spoon, a textile napkin, and some custard – all are on the table in a giveaway…
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Cell-Based News

Israeli Cultivated Meat Pioneer Reveals How It Can Produce Chicken At $12 Per Pound

Anay Mridul Nov 19, 2024

Israeli startup SuperMeat has revealed how it can cut production costs of its cultivated chicken to under $12 per pound, on par with conventional poultry. Just shy of its nine-year anniversary, Israeli food tech startup SuperMeat has…
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Future Foods

Duckweed Protein Pioneer Plantible Foods Grows Budget with $30M Investment

Anay Mridul Nov 18, 2024

California's Plantible Foods has closed a $30M Series B round to expand production of its duckweed-derived Rubi Protein. Among the constantly evolving search for nutritionally sound, climate-friendly, palate-appealing foods, a wave of…
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Alt Protein

Japanese Cell Ag Specialist Develops Cultivated Meat Starter Kit for Startups & Researchers

Anay Mridul Nov 18, 2024

Tokyo-based startup Integriculture has launched a starter kit to drive innovation and accelerate R&D in the cultivated meat sector. In a bid to make cultivated meat prototyping easier, Japan's IntegriCulture has created a starter…
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Seafood

HealthyGirl Kitchen: Why the Internet’s Most Famous Vegan Influencer Invested in A Plant-Based Salmon Startup

Anay Mridul Nov 18, 2024

Danielle Brown, the face behind HealthyGirl Kitchen, tells Green Queen why she chose to invest in vegan seafood company Oshi. Plant-based seafood startup Oshi, which makes a whole-cut salmon alternative, is tapping the world's…
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Alt Protein

Impossible Foods Inches Closer to EU Launch As Regulator Deems GMO Protein Safe

Anay Mridul Nov 18, 2024

After a years-long deadlock, Impossible Foods has received a positive safety assessment by the EU for its genetically modified heme ingredient. Europeans could be eating the Impossible Burger soon, with the California-based company…
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Climate Change

COP29 Digest, Vol 2: Everything You Need to Know in Food and Climate News Today

Anay Mridul Nov 16, 2024

Welcome to Volume 2 of Green Queen's #COP29 Digest. Here, our editorial team curates the must-reads, the must-bookmarks and the must-knows from around the interwebs to help you ‘skim the overwhelm’. Catch up: VOLUME 1 Headlines You…
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Climate Change

Modest Cuts in Beef Production Can Remove 3 Years’ Worth of Fossil Fuel Emissions

Anay Mridul Nov 15, 2024

Scientists suggest that if rich countries make small reductions in meat production, the climate benefits would be massive. While scientific consensus calls for sharp reductions in livestock farming to lower emissions and battle climate…
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