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Replacing half of meat and seafood production with plant proteins could save 100,000 lives lost from air pollution in Thailand, a new study has found. Thailand's annual crop-burning season causes air pollution lethal enough to…
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Tom Johansson, co-founder and CEO of Swedish vegan meat maker Hooked Foods, says underperforming big players have "scared" investors interested in the plant-based sector. The slow sales progress of leading plant-based companies in…
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With a number of cultivated meat startups hosting public tastings of their products, three taste testers take us behind the scenes of what it's like to bite into the future from cultivated fois gras to cell-cultured salmon. It was a…
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Unilever has agreed to sell The Vegetarian Butcher to fellow plant-based meat business Vivera, with the deal expected to be completed by Q3 2025. Four months after it first emerged that Unilever was planning to offload The Vegetarian…
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South Korea's largest Muslim organisation has issued a fatwa recognising that cultivated meat can be Halal if it meets certain requirements, with one startup already pursuing the certification. Cultivated meat can be considered Halal…
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In our interview series, we quiz future food investors about the solutions that excite them the most, their favourite climate-forward restaurant, and what they look for in successful founders. Simon Newstead is a Founding Partner at…
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McDonald's Canada is trialling the McVeggie, featuring a patty that ditches plant-based meat for vegetables. After the Beyond Burger failure in Canada, McDonald's is banking on vegetables for its latest meat-free main. The Golden…
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Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Benexia's new chia seed milk, Violife's campaign with Chrishell Stause, and Holy Carrot's upcoming restaurant in London. …
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A nation known for its meat-free culture, India's plant-based food market is on the "brink of transformation" as healthy eating and protein intake take centre stage. While many have spelt doom on the vegan food industry, its most…
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Slovenian whole-cut meat analogue maker Juicy Marbles has released Pork-ish, the second product in its Meaty Meat lineup, its cheapest offering ever. Building on its new Meaty Meat range, Juicy Marbles has released a whole-cut pork…
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In our interview series, we quiz future food investors about the solutions that excite them the most, their favourite climate-forward restaurant, and what they look for in successful founders. Martin Davalos is a Partner and Head of…
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None of the world's 20 largest retailers have set methane reduction targets, despite meat and dairy making up a third of their emissions, a new analysis has found. According to a new report focused on methane emissions, the world's…
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Marin Vandamme, a fellow at the School for Moral Ambition in Amsterdam, argues why the EU's food strategy must emphasise protein diversification. Let me take you to a familiar scene: a family dinner where everything is going smoothly –…
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Meat-eaters find most plant-based alternatives inferior to animal protein in taste and texture, but some industry-leading products show how to bridge the gap. Vegan meat alternatives have a taste and texture problem, and it is what's…
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Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Diageo's newest non-dairy Baileys, Beyond Meat's mycelium steak, and Minor Figures's 'Hyper' oat milk. New products and…
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House and Senate representatives in Mississippi have unanimously passed a bill to ban the sale of cultivated meat in the state, which is on the way to the governor's desk now. Sell cultivated meat, go to jail. Mississippi has…
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Colorado-based Meati Foods faces an uncertain future after its lender swept most of its cash reserves due to a technical default, but the company is fighting to save the business and 150 jobs. Mycelium protein startup Meati Foods is…
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US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has directed the country's food regulator to close a 'loophole' that allows companies to self-affirm their ingredients as safe. What does it mean for future protein firms? In the latest blow to…
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Finland's S Group witnessed heightened sales of vegan food across its retail stores in January, aiding its long-term plant-based sales goal amid a wider government push to eat less meat. More and more plants are on dinner plates in…
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The UK's Food Standards Agency has launched a regulatory 'sandbox' to accelerate the regulatory approval pathway for cultivated meat, with eight startups participating in the two-year programme. Weeks after cultivated meat hit pet food…
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Californian food tech startup Mission Barns has become the third cultivated meat firm to receive regulatory approval in the US, with a planned rollout at Sprouts and Bay Area restaurant group Fiorella. Mission Barns has earned US…
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