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Food Industry Is ‘Leaning In’ to Alternative Proteins, Good Food Institute Reports
Three new reports from the nonprofit The Good Food Institute detail a shifting landscape across the global food system as the plant-based, precision fermentation, and cultivated meat sectors show significant growth and widespread!-->…
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$8 Billion U.S. Plant-Based Food Sector Shows ‘Momentum and Resilience’, PBFA Report Finds
In its State of the Marketplace 2022 Summary Report, the Plant Based Foods Association takes a deep dive into the category and identifies key trends ahead.
Despite inflation over the last year and lackluster sales for several!-->!-->!-->…
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Germany Drops ‘Completely Unreasonable’ Meat Consumption To Record Low
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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Mycorena’s Sustainable Fungi-Based Fat Mycolein Makes Its Market Debut
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
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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70% of Gen Zers Interested In a Vegan Diet for Their Health, Not the Environment
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
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.
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Aqua Cultured Foods Raises $5.5 Million in Seed Funding to Disrupt ‘Big Fish’ With Fungi
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?
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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The Raging Pig’s Vegan Bacon Gets a National Rollout In Germany
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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Europe Sees 22% Growth In Plant-Based Food Since 2020, Report Finds
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.
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Israel’s PMO Committed To ‘Solidifying’ The Country’s Leadership In Alternative Protein
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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Vow Founder On That Mammoth Meatball: “We Needed To Do Something So Outrageous That It Would Break Through Into Mainstream Media.
Green Queen's Sonalie Figueiras shares her reservations about Vow's global headline-grabbing cultivated mammoth meatball event with company founder and CEO George Peppou in this exclusive interview.
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OpEd: What The Anti-Cultivated Meat Brigade Aren’t Telling You About Italian Pork & Beef Production
"You can literally smell the pig and cow sh*t all around you": A food technologist and Italian transplant living in one of Italy's main pork production regions shares her feelings about the government's push to ban cultivated meat.
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South Korea’s Cellular Agriculture Support Center Opens With a Bang: The World’s Largest Piece of Cultivated Meat
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
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
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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Because Animals Sells Off “Discontinued” Products To Former Co-Founder To Accelerate Cultivated Pet Food Technology
Cultivated meat innovation company CULT Food Science says it has acquired consumer brand assets and product formulations from cultivated pet food startup Because Animals. Because CEO Shannon Falconer says the company sold "discontinued"!-->…
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Vow Debuts Cultivated Meat Made From Extinct Wooly Mammoth DNA
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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Lypid Debuts Pork Belly Made With Patented PhytoFat
Taiwanese-U.S. food-tech company Lypid unveiled vegan pork belly made from its patented PhytoFat at the recent Future Food-Tech summit held in San Francisco earlier this month.
The product ist the first release of Lypid's upcoming line!-->!-->!-->…
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The White House Issues Guidelines to ‘Harness the Full Potential and Power of Biotechnology’
The Biden-Harris Administration revealed new priorities detailed in a report last week that will trigger actions to advance American biotechnology and biomanufacturing.
The move follows an Executive Order signed by President Biden last!-->!-->!-->…
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