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‘Healing People and the Planet’: Triplebar Secures $20M to Expand Biomanufacturing Platform for Precision Fermentation and Cultured…
Green Queen talks to Californian biotech startup Triplebar's CEO Maria Cho about how the company's product design engine helps make precision fermentation and cultivated meat proteins more scalable and more affordable on a shortened!-->…
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‘Turning Sceptics into Believers’: Impossible Foods Receives Heart-Check Certification for its Lean Beef Lite
Impossible Foods has announced that its Beef Lite alternative has been certified by the American Heart Association’s (AHA) Heart-Check Food Certification Program, becoming just the second plant-based meat company to have an accredited!-->…
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Cultivated Pet Food Gains Steam as Czech Startup Says It Is Cleared For Sale After Listing On EU Feed Register
There have been a host of developments in the cultivated pet food sector of late, headlined by Czech startup Bene Meat Technologies officially listing its feed on the EU feed register, which it says clears it for sale.
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Half of Europeans are Eating Less Meat – But Taste & Price Are the Biggest Factors Affecting Plant-Based Alternatives
A new 10-country survey has found that 51% of Europeans are eating less meat annually, with health being the biggest reason for the decrease in consumption. However, taste and price are the largest detractors of plant-based intake for!-->…
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Nūmi: Cultivated Breast Milk Startup Raises €3M in Pre-Seed Funding to Expand R&D & Scientific Team
Nūmi, a French startup making breast milk from cell-cultured mammary glands, has raised €3M in pre-seed funding to expand its R&D and recruit new scientists. It plans to file for regulatory approval in the US first, followed by Europe!-->…
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Future Food Quick Bites: Dazzling Dairy, Amazing Awards & Poopy Water
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 a host of plant-based dairy news, a bunch of awards and a Chilean vegan!-->…
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Mandorla Mozzarella: Italy’s Dreamfarm Raises €5M for Healthy Fermented Vegan Cheese
Italian vegan cheese startup Dreamfarm has closed a funding round of €5M aimed at building a production hub for its patented process to make a healthier plant-based cheese alternative. Its fermented almond mozzarella and spreadable cheese!-->…
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Meati Expands Mycelium Meat Range with Nuggets, Spicy Takes & Holiday Bundles
Weeks after opening its D2C online marketplace, Colorado-based mycelium meat startup Meati has expanded its line of meat alternatives with new vegan chicken nuggets and spiced takes on its existing steaks and cutlets. The brand has also!-->…
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Exclusive: Vegan Celebrity Chef Matthew Kenney Expands His Plant City Empire to China
Matthew Kenney, the vegan author and celebrity chef behind Plant Food + Wine, is expanding his empire to China with food halls inspired by his Plant City F&B concept, with the help of global scale-up firm The Wellness Agency.
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Top 20 Meat & Dairy Producers: GHG Emissions Up 3%, Majority Still Don’t Have Net Zero Science-Based Targets – Report
Greenhouse gas emissions from the world's 20 largest meat and dairy producers increased by 3.28% in the last year, according to new analysis from the investor network FAIRR Initiative. The findings come just as global leaders prepare for a!-->…
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Beyond Meat: 26.5% Q3 Sales Decline Leads to Revised Annual Forecast and Additional Layoffs
Despite hopes for a better second half of 2023, Beyond Meat has announced a 26.5% decline in quarterly sales to $75M, while further cutting its annual sales forecast and employing a cost-cutting programme that will see 8% of its workforce!-->…
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Mush Foods CEO on Blended Meat: ‘We Don’t Need the Entire World to Go Vegan’
Shalom Daniel, CEO of mycelium meat company Mush Foods, tells Green Queen about why the brand's ingredient is ideal for blended meat applications, why anti-meat investors believe flex meat is the solution, and its mission to halve global!-->…
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Precision Fermentation Egg Leader The EVERY Co: ‘Our Purpose is to Remake the Food System from Within’
Silicon Valley startup The EVERY Co, which makes precision-fermented egg proteins, recently collaborated with Colombia's largest CPG food company. It signposts the company's increased retail focus, which its CEO Arturo Elizondo and!-->…
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Cutting Out Meat Twice a Week Can Offset Almost All Your GHG Emissions from Flights: Report
Replacing 30% of meat consumption with plant-based alternatives could offset almost all of global aviation emissions, free up a carbon sink the size of India, and save all the cows alive in the US today, according to a new report by!-->…
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Singapore Trade Minister on Food Tech Ecosystem: ‘Come to the Best Place in the World for Food Innovation’
Singapore is host to Rethink's Asia-Pacific Agri-Food Innovation Summit this week, where it's bolstering its role as a leader in the APAC food tech ecosystem. Off the back of a newly announced food safety bill that will advance novel food!-->…
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Future Food Quick Bites: Pasta Partnerships, Killer Commercials & Christmas Incoming
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 an upcycled pasta partnership at Cambridge, the UK getting into!-->…
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Out of This World: Growing Meat in Space for the Better for the Planet
Two projects funded by the European Space Agency have looked at the viability of producing cultivated meat in space to provide more sustainable food for astronauts. The results are promising.
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New Singapore Food Safety Bill To Offer More Clarity for Novel Foods Like Cultivated Meat
Singapore is working on a Food Safety and Security Bill that would offer greater clarity on regulatory frameworks for novel foods like cultivated meat and help prevent foodborne illnesses like the ones suffered from raw seafood, which!-->…
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Can Industry Collaboration Help Accelerate the Regulatory Approval of Cultivated Meat in APAC?
Launching this week, a new platform of industry stakeholders across nine Asia-Pacific countries is looking to facilitate collaboration to advance the regulatory approval of cultivated meat in the region.
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90% of Koreans are Willing to Try Cultivated Meat, with Price & Taste Key Targets for Producers
A new report by the APAC Society for Cellular Agriculture (APAC-SCA) has revealed that an overwhelming majority of South Koreans are willing to try cultivated meat at least once, while price and taste remain key barriers. Regulatory!-->…
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APAC AgriFood Report: Funding Hits A Low, But Farm Tech & Novel Foods Are On the Rise
Agrifood tech startups in Asia-Pacific saw an investment of $6.5B in 2022, a 58% fall from the year before – but agtech funding for farmers and primary novel food production increased by 24% year-on-year, according to a new report by!-->…
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