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We INFORM. We INSPIRE. We EMPOWER. Founded by serial entrepreneur Sonalie Figueiras in 2011, Green Queen is an award-winning sustainability & impact media platform advocating for social & environmental change in Asia. Our mission is to shift consumer behaviour through our authentic, original and ground-breaking content.

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Germany Drops ‘Completely Unreasonable’ Meat Consumption To Record Low

Green Queen Team Apr 11, 2023

Germans keep reducing their meat consumption, a new report finds. New data released by the Federal Information Centre for Agriculture in Germany shows that meat consumption per capita decreased by approximately 4.2 kg in 2022, dropping…
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Alt Materials

Mycorena’s Sustainable Fungi-Based Fat Mycolein Makes Its Market Debut

Green Queen Team Apr 10, 2023

Following its release in 2021, Sweden's Mycorena says its fungi-stabilized sustainable fat dubbed Mycolein, is now available for sale. Mycorena first announced its fungi-based fat that mimics animal fat in late 2021. The product earned…
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FAO and WHO Weigh In on Cultivated Meat Safety With New Report

Green Queen Team Apr 10, 2023

As the industry gets closer to widespread regulatory approval, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) released their first report on the safety aspects of the nascent…
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Climate Change

Climate Doomism Is Bad Storytelling – If We Want To Trigger Action, We Need To Lead With Hope

Green Queen Team Apr 8, 2023

Climate doomism, the view that humanity has lost the climate battle, makes us feel helpless and anxious. It also stops us from taking action. By: Anastasia Denisova, Senior Lecturer in Journalism, University of Westminster When news…
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70% of Gen Zers Interested In a Vegan Diet for Their Health, Not the Environment

Green Queen Team Apr 7, 2023

Gen Z is driving the rapidly growing plant-based food market. According to a recent survey, 70 percent of Gen Zers say they plan to pursue a vegan diet in the next five years but the reasons don't necessarily track with their climate…
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10 Companies Awarded China’s First Vegan Food Standard Certification

Green Queen Team Apr 7, 2023

China's shift to a more sustainable food system took a significant step forward with the introduction of the country's first domestic vegan food certification program and the first ten recipients. The China Vegan Society and the China…
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Alt Protein

Aqua Cultured Foods Raises $5.5 Million in Seed Funding to Disrupt ‘Big Fish’ With Fungi

Green Queen Team Apr 6, 2023

Aqua Cultured Foods has announced $5.5 million in a Seed funding round to accelerate its mycoprotein-based seafood. The new funding was led by Stray Dog Capital, a venture capital fund that specializes in investing in alternative…
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Overlooked and Underfunded: Are Climate Tech Investors Missing Out On Precision Fermentation?

Green Queen Team Apr 6, 2023

By: Beatriz Franco, Managing Partner at Vita Vera Ventures, and Maya Benami, PhD, Advisor to Vita Vera Ventures & Technical/R&D Consultant. Climate tech investors are missing out on a food technology solution with major GHG…
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Alt Dairy

Zero Cow Factory Raises $4 Million for Its Precision Fermentation Casein

Green Queen Team Apr 6, 2023

Zero Cow Factory, India's first precision fermentation dairy producer, has secured $4 million (INR 32 crore) in a Seed funding round led by Green Frontier Capital, GVFL, and Pi Ventures, with participation from Pascual Innoventures. …
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Alt Dairy

Danone Drops $2 Million Into Wilk’s Cultured Breast Milk

Green Queen Team Apr 5, 2023

French dairy conglomerate Danone has agreed to a strategic $2 million investment deal with Israeli cell-based breast milk startup Wilk. Danone's investment into Wilk is part of a $3.5 million financing round for the food tech startup.…
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Alt Materials

Supplant’s Second Product Upcycles Wheat Stalks Into Sustainable, Fiber-Rich Flour

Green Queen Team Apr 5, 2023

The Supplant Company has launched Grain & Stalk Flour — a flour blend that uses more of the wheat plant by deriving matter from both the grain and the stalk. According to Supplant, its new flour maintains the taste and texture of…
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The Raging Pig’s Vegan Bacon Gets a National Rollout In Germany

Green Queen Team Apr 4, 2023

The German food tech startup, The Raging Pig Company, has partnered with Vincent Vegan, Germany's largest plant-based burger chain, on a nationwide launch of Raging Pig’s plant-based bacon. The Hamburg-based Raging Pig Company, which…
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Alt Protein

Europe Sees 22% Growth In Plant-Based Food Since 2020, Report Finds

Green Queen Team Apr 4, 2023

Sales of plant-based foods in 13 European countries hit a record high of €5.7 billion last year, with a growth rate of 22 percent since 2020, according to a report by the Good Food Institute Europe. The Good Food Institute Europe (GFI…
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Alt Protein

Israel’s PMO Committed To ‘Solidifying’ The Country’s Leadership In Alternative Protein

Green Queen Team Apr 3, 2023

The Israeli Prime Minister's Office (PMO) says promoting alternative proteins is a national goal as the office considers it a solution for food security and a means to strengthen the economy. PMO Director General Yossi Shelley and…
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Health

Women’s Health Market Set to Explode As Millennials Hit Their 40s

Green Queen Team Apr 3, 2023

New data point to an untapped market potential for female nutrition. But more work is needed to address the full range of women's health requirements. The findings about women's health come from sector specialists at consultancy…
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Climate Change

Climate Change Is Coming for Big Meat in a Big Way, New FAIRR Report Finds

Green Queen Team Mar 31, 2023

A new analysis by FAIRR's Climate Risk Tool has found that half of the world's largest livestock firms may be at risk of operating losses by 2030 due to climate-related cost increases. According to the new FAIRR report, 20 of the 40…
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South Korea’s Cellular Agriculture Support Center Opens With a Bang: The World’s Largest Piece of Cultivated Meat

Green Queen Team Mar 31, 2023

TissenBioFarm debuted a giant piece of cultivated meat at the opening of South Korea's Cellular Agriculture Support Center in the North Gyeongsang Province. This story has been updated at 13.00 on 31 March 2023 with additional…
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Australia’s Magic Valley Debuts Cultivated Pork Meat

Green Queen Team Mar 30, 2023

Cultivated pork meat is Magic Valley’s latest achievement, following the launch of its lamb meat last year. Melbourne-based Magic Valley says its cultivated pork meat comes from skin cells retrieved humanely from a living pig. The…
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Food Tech Investments In Europe are Down, But Not Out, Report Finds

Green Queen Team Mar 30, 2023

Just how robust is funding for food tech startups in Europe? A new report takes a deep dive. A new report on the European food tech industry shows a decrease of 36 percent in investments between 2021 and 2022. But according to…
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Alt Dairy

Cauldron Raises AU$10.5 Million to Scale Australia’s Precision Fermentation ‘Fermaculture’

Green Queen Team Mar 29, 2023

Australian precision fermentation company Cauldron, has raised AU$10.5 million to build Asia-Pacific's largest network of precision fermentation facilities using a revolutionary hyper-fermentation platform. Cauldron says its new…
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Alt Protein

Vow Debuts Cultivated Meat Made From Extinct Wooly Mammoth DNA

Green Queen Team Mar 29, 2023

Australian cultivated meat company, Vow, has created a meatball using cells from the extinct wooly mammoth as part of a project to showcase the potential of cellular agriculture. Vow's mammoth meatball is a token product showing not…
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