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Venture Studio Green Planet Foods Launches To Bring ‘Affordable Wellness’ To Mainland China
Green Planet Foods, a Singapore-based venture studio focused on plant-based food and advanced farming technologies, has just launched its venture studio. It will act as both a product innovator and an incubator that invests in solutions!-->…
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Impact Snacks: World’s First Carbon Positive Plant-Based Superfood Bars With Compostable Packaging
Impact Snacks is the newest plant-based startup in town and is the world’s first snack company that reclaims 100% of its carbon footprint. Based in Boston, the company will launch this month its first product, a plant-based superfood bar!-->…
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‘Meat Should Cost 3 Times More’: German Grocer Shows Consumers Hidden Environmental Price Of Food
If the environmental cost of food production were factored into the price tag of products on supermarket aisles, then the prices of meat, dairy and cheese would be far higher. Now, a discount retailer in Germany is showing the “true cost”!-->…
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Japan’s Largest Chemical Giant Enters Plant-Based Meat Supply Chain
Shin-Etsu Chemical, one of the world's largest suppliers of plastics and chip-making materials and the biggest chemical company in Japan, has just made its first entry into the plant-based meat supply chain. It has developed a new binding!-->…
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5 Things I Learnt While Writing My Book On Agrifood Tech & Alt Protein
By: Shen Ming Lee
Hungry For Disruption offers a futuristic vision for embracing the scientific and technological advances in food for the coming decades. The book explores how breakthrough innovations in smart agriculture, novel!-->!-->!-->…
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6 Reasons Why Miley Cyrus Is Wrong About Veganism
Singer-songwriter and actress Miley Cyrus recently revealed that she is no longer a vegan, claiming that she has felt “sharper” after reintroducing fish into her diet in 2019 in a recent episode of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. She!-->…
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Study: Choose Nutrient Dense Whole Plant-Based Foods For A Healthy Diet
A new study finding variable nutritional quality of different plant foods highlights that not all plant-based options are “created equal” and that replacing meat consumption with whole plant foods is the best way to ensure a healthy diet.!-->…
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Healthy Food Subsidies & Processed Meat Levies: New Survey Shows Consumers Want More From Government & Retailers
Consumers are calling for healthy foods to be cheaper and more available in grocery shops, a new poll finds. The survey, which explored public attitudes about healthy eating, finds that the current food market poses barriers for shoppers!-->…
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Bernie Sanders & Elizabeth Warren Co-Sponsor Cory Booker Bill To Phase Out Factory Farming
As the coronavirus pandemic exposes the dangers and vulnerabilities in the meat supply chains, U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have co-sponsored a bill put forward by Senator Cory Booker to phase out factory farms. The!-->…
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Singapore Startup Alchemy Foodtech Targets China For International Expansion Of Its GI-Lowering Powder
Alchemy Foodtech recently revealed that it is eyeing China as its next potential market opportunity after launching its first product, Alchemy Fibre, in its home base in Singapore. The product, which comes in powder form, lowers the!-->…
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Choux Dreams: Welcome To Bien Caramélisé, Hong Kong’s First 100% Plant-Based Pâtisserie
Hong Kong-Australian Chef Jessica Chow had the idea to explore plant-based pastries during her time in Berlin, the vibrant vegan-friendly city that she describes as a “place where anything can happen”. After moving back to Hong Kong and!-->…
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Report Shows Plant-Based Meats Perform Better Than Animal Meat On Multiple Health Indices
A new report by Australia and New Zealand-based non-profit think tank Food Frontier finds that plant-based meats are on average healthier than their animal meat counterparts. For the study, the analysts examined the nutritional profile and!-->…
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Flora Parent Company To Carbon Label 100 Million Plant-Based Products
Upfield, the parent company of multiple brands of plant-based spreads, butters and creams including Flora, Proactiv and Becel, has announced that it will be introducing on-pack carbon labelling to 100 million products by the end of 2021.!-->…
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Where To Find The Best Vegan Mooncakes In Hong Kong
It might feel surreal, especially given the strange year we are living through, but we are only a weeks away from this year’s Mid-Autumn Festival! Despite all the hardships brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, celebrating this very!-->…
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Q&A w/ FMCG Gurus: Plant Based Consumer Attitudes in 2020
In the past couple of years, plant-based foods have become more popular amongst the masses. This is being driven by consumers changing their diets to lead healthier and more sustainable lifestyles and associating plant-based ingredients!-->…
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New Canada Guidelines First To Approach Obesity As Chronic Disease
New guidelines published in Canada are challenging the conventional treatment of obesity and urging doctors to approach the health problem as a complex chronic illness, rather than a weight loss issue. These guidelines on obesity!-->…
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Hong Kong Consumers Can Now Buy Impossible Foods To Cook At Home
Impossible Foods, the Silicon Valley-based food tech famous for its plant-based “bleeding” burgers, has just launched a new initiative in Hong Kong to allow its restaurant partners to resell its plant-based meat to consumers. It comes amid!-->…
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Real Life Vegan: My Loved Ones Kept Asking Me If My Vegan Diet Was Healthy, So I Got Certified In Plant-Based Nutrition
Welcome to our new series, in which we offer real life Asian vegans a platform to tell their plant-based story in their words. In our first edition, UX Designer Beth Liang shares how she pursued a plant-based nutrition certification after!-->…
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Is India’s Food Bowl Going To Run Out Of Water? Experts Say It’s Likely.
By: Gurpreet Singh
Water-guzzling rice consumes more water than Punjab can recharge. If current irrigation rates continue, the state will empty its groundwater reserves within 20 years.
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InBloom: Kate Hudson To Debut New Plant-Based Nutrition Brand
Hollywood actress Kate Hudson has announced that she will be launching a new plant-based natural body nutrition company this August. Called InBloom, the brand will offer non-GMO, plant-based, synthetic-free and eco-friendly wellness!-->…
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Joaquin Phoenix & Rooney Mara To Produce Film On Animal Ag & Zoonotic Pandemics
Hollywood actors Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix are producing a new documentary movie called The End of Medicine, which will focus on the link between animal agriculture and zoonotic diseases. The production of the film began in October!-->…
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