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Beyond Meat Bets On Consumers Wanting To Keep Up With New Chief Taste Consultant Kim Kardashian
Beyond Meat has announced reality television superstar Kim Kardashian as its new "chief taste consultant". Kardashian has lent her ambassadorship to the somewhat embattled brand, citing that she has used the products at home regularly. In!-->…
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Orbillion Says It Will Achieve Price Parity With Conventional Meat By 2026
San Francisco-based startup cultivated meat Orbillion has announced that it projects reaching price parity with conventional meat by 2026, with commodity pricing for beef to follow by 2030. The declaration comes as CEO and co-founder!-->…
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This New Zealand Startup Is Making Plant-Based Mortadella From Microalgae
Auckland-based NewFish has come out of stealth to close a NZ$1.3 million (approx. US$816,000) pre-seed funding round. Outset Ventures led the round with participation from domestic investor Tangaroa Ventures, basketball player Steven Adams!-->…
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Serena Williams and Jake Gyllenhaal Star In JUST Egg Advertising Campaign
Eat Just’s JUST Egg has attracted a number of celebrity investors. Now, two of the most prominent, Serena Williams and Jake Gyllenhaal, are starring in satire-rich advertising campaigns to promote the health benefits and taste of the!-->…
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Project Pollo Accelerates Efforts To Drive Chick-fil-A Out Of Business With ‘Shark Tank’ Appearance
Texas-based Project Pollo was recently represented by founder and CEO Lucas Bradbury in the season finale episode of Shark Tank. He pitched the vegan chicken chain to residents ‘sharks’ Mark Cuban, Lori Greiner, Kevin O’Leary and Barbara!-->…
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New Lawsuit Seeks To Make Accommodation Of Vegan Students A Human Right In Turkey
The Vegan Association of Turkey has taken aim at the Turkish Council of Higher Education. The former has launched a lawsuit claiming that the latter has systematically overlooked vegan university students’ right to source nutritious and!-->…
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Motif FoodWorks Unveils First Commercial Plant-Based Meat Line
Boston-Based Motif FoodWorks has announced a new range of plant-based meat products. Dubbed Motif MoBeef, MoPork and MoChicken, launches will be staggered from now through to 2023. The products are aimed squarely at foodservice providers,!-->…
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Peace of Meat & Enough Partner To Create Hybrid Mycoprotein Chicken Flavored With Cultivated Fat
Israel-based MeaTech has confirmed its wholly-owned Belgian subsidiary, Peace of Meat, will be working with Scotland’s Enough, an innovator in the mycoprotein sector that specializes in fungi fermentation using renewable feedstocks.!-->…
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NotCo Enters US Foodservice Sector With Dairy-Free Shake Shack Collaboration
Chilean food tech NotCo has partnered with U.S. fast casual burger chain Shake Shack. The two have developed a dairy-free chocolate custard and a chocolate shake to be tested in ten restaurant locations. The plant-based offerings will be!-->…
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Israel Startup Bringing Its Plant-Based Sunny-Side-Up And Poached Eggs To US Restaurants
Israeli food tech startup Yo! Egg has announced it will be launching into U.S. restaurants later this year. Its sunny-side-up and poached eggs are claimed to be the world’s first, by company CEO Eran Groner. The whole-egg analogues are!-->…
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GOOD Meat and ADM Confirm Strategic Partnership To Ramp Up Cultivated Meat Output
Californian-food tech Eat Just has announced that its GOOD Meat cultivated chicken brand is now partnering with food processing giant ADM to help accelerate commercial rollout of GOOD Meat products. The collaboration marks the first!-->…
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Willicroft’s Vegan Bean Cheese Nets $2.1 Million To Expand Across Europe
Dutch bean-based plant-based cheese startup Willicroft has closed its pre-seed funding round, securing €2 million. The round was led by PINC and Rockstart with Döhler and Feast Ventures participating. Funding has been raised to support!-->…
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This Chef Is Moving From Steakhouses To Sustainable ‘Symplicity Foods’ To Take On Beyond Meat
Neil Rankin, founder of London steakhouse Temper, is entering the plant-based food sphere. The chef claims that he is fed up with alternative protein not quite hitting the right mark and claims he can do better. His gripes include Beyond!-->…
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The FAO Spotlights Food Security On First International Day of Plant Health
Last week, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization celebrated the first annual International Day of Plant Health—a tentpole built around investment and innovation aimed at boosting food security.
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KFC Sets Its Sights On Vegan Chicken Buckets For European Restaurants
Following on from its original recipe Vegan Burger, KFC is looking to create a range of new products with Quorn including vegan chicken buckets. The first confirmed item is an animal-free tender. U.K.-based Quorn has been chosen as the!-->…
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Q+A w/ Sharon Cittone of Edible Planet Ventures: ‘It’s Time To Get Real and Go Beyond The Hype’
The stakes have never been higher for the future of food. From deforestation to the climate emergency, from our over-reliance on industrial animal protein to water scarcity, it's time for a complete rethink. Green Queen founder Sonalie!-->…
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Unlimeat Crowdfunds To Launch Sold-Out Plant-Based Jerky In The US
Korea’s leading plant-based meat company is leveraging the power of crowdfunding to launch its jerky line in the U.S. A pre-launch campaign on Kickstarter allows global backers to participate. The official launch is scheduled for May!-->…
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Cargill And Cubiq Team Up To Take On The U.S. Alternative Fats Market
Barcelona’s Cubiq Foods has been developing its omega-3-rich smart fats since 2020 and now, the startup has announced a $5.75 million funding round from Moira Capital Partners, SGEIC and Newtree Impact to help it bring its developments to!-->…
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Asian Food Companies Are Failing To Disclose Core ESG Sourcing Risks, New Study Finds
Asia Research and Engagement (ARE) has conducted a baseline study looking at the disclosure levels of Asia’s top animal protein companies, and according to its findings, only 16 percent of the biggest organisations put responsible sourcing!-->…
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WNWN Food Labs Debuting Cacao And Palm Oil-Free Ethical Chocolate On London Shelves
Chocolate without cacao might sound like science fiction but WNWN Food Labs is releasing its first dark variety this month and it says its product has 80% less emissions than convential chocolate. The startup wants to address what it!-->…
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Mooji Meats Nets $3 Million for 3D-Printed Vegan Meat Acceleration
Y Combinator alumnus Mooji Meats, which specialises in whole cut plant-based meats, has raised £3 million in a seed funding round. The Good Startup, Collaborative Fund, Lever VC and AgFunder all participated in the round.
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