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Female-Led Food Tech, Cultivated Meat Take the Spotlight at Vegan Women Summit
New Yorkers are getting a taste of cultivated meat and other novel food tech products at the Vegan Women Summit coming to Brooklyn next month.
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Women’s Health Market Set to Explode As Millennials Hit Their 40s
New data point to an untapped market potential for female nutrition. But more work is needed to address the full range of women's health requirements.
The findings about women's health come from sector specialists at consultancy!-->!-->!-->…
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Exclusive: Former Outcast Foods CEO Darren Burke Named In Wrongful Termination Lawsuit Alleging Discrimination On The Basis Of Sex
Canadian foodtech entrepreneur Marissa Bronfman says that after being recruited as co-founder for a new biotech mycelium fermentation company, she was subjected to a sexist work environment and was terminated by former Outcast Foods CEO!-->…
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How the E.U. — and Women CEOs — are Tackling Greenwashing
As the European Commission takes new steps to crack down on greenwashing in product labels and advertisements, research points to a foolproof way to avoid greenwashing in the first place: hire more women executives.
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OpEd: If We’re Going To Disrupt Food, Let’s Make More Sure Women Are In Charge – My Ask This IWD
Women control most household food purchasing decisions but almost none of the industry's production decisions. Meanwhile, men have had a (very!) long run and made a mess of things. If we’re going to disrupt the food system, we need to put!-->…
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Forget Princess, I Want To Be A Scientist: Celebrating Food Tech Researcher Maya Benami This IWD
If you're in the know in the food tech world, then you will surely have heard Maya Benami's name. The Israeli food-tech scientist is the secret research whisperer to the global alternative protein industry, consulting on all matters of!-->…
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10 Pro Vegan Female Olympic Athletes Redefining the Game
There’s a world of plant-based female-identifying Olympic competitors to be inspired by, across a broad spectrum of disciplines.
The rise of the professional vegan athlete is impossible to ignore, but step away from high-profile!-->!-->!-->…
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The Best Sustainable Fashion Brands For All (Plus) Sizes and All Occasions
It’s time to take the “either/or” out of inclusivity and sustainability. Consumers are demanding fashion brands to tick more than one box, telling them it’s not enough to preach about transparent supply chains and ethical sourcing if blind!-->…
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Want to create a better world? Empower more women investors.
By: Helena Wasserman Eriksson & Sonalie Figueiras
Empowering more women to become investors will unlock billions into ESG investing and help fight the climate crisis.
You may have seen the recent headlines about Adam Neumann,!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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Prakriti Varshney Becomes India’s First Vegan Woman To Conquer Everest
On May 12, 2022, Prakriti Varshney made history. Aged 26, she became the first vegan Indian woman to scale Mount Everest. Setting out from the Everest Base Camp on May 7, the expedition team took just five days to reach the peak, following!-->…
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Slutty Vegan Gets $25 Million in Funding Led By Shake Shack Founder To Open 20 New Burger Restaurants
Atlanta’s Slutty Vegan burger chain has closed a $25 million Series A funding round, led by New Voices Fund and restauranteur Danny Meyer’s Enlightened Hospitality Investments. The funding will be used to open 10 new restaurants in 2022!-->…
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The Vegan Women Summit Brought 800 Women Together for One Day. This Is What It Was Like Being One of Them.
On a sunny and very hot Friday this past April, I attended the Vegan Women Summit (VWS) in downtown Los Angeles. The all-day event took place at the City Market Social House and brought together 800 vegan female powerhouses, from!-->…
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Are Condoms Eco-Friendly? & Other (Green) Safe Sex Questions
Condoms help protect against pregnancy and many sexually transmitted infections (STIs), are relatively inexpensive and widely available for purchase. However, when it comes to being as conscious about our environmental impact in every!-->…
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This German Women-Led Startup Just Closed A Seed Round To Make Periods More Sustainable With Seaweed Tampons
Berlin-based Vyld, which makes seaweed-based menstruation products, has closed a seed round to take the startup’s stigma-busting seaweed-based tampons from small scale to mass production. Participants in the round included The Case for!-->…
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IWD 2022: Celebrating the Queens Of Alt Protein Who Are Forging The Future Of Food
The two biggest plant-based protein startups in the world are run by men. The majority of the rising cell-based protein startups are also run by men, alongside most of the vegan investment groups that fund them. The leader of the NGO think!-->…
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Why We Can’t Fix The Climate Crisis Without Women
I often get asked what the connection between women and sustainability is and this continually surprises me. It seems fairly obvious, no? Without lifting women up, what chance do we have of creating a fairer, kinder, greener world?
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#IWD2022: 10 Women Changing The Future Of Impact In Asia
International Women’s Day is internationally recognised on the March 8th every year, and represents a focal point for women’s rights and is a celebration of the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. At times, it!-->…
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‘It’s Not About Overnight Results’: A New DEI Program Designed For Food Tech Leaders Wants Startups To Build Better, More Diverse…
Vegan Women Summit (VWS) has announced a new leadership initiative, to be run alongside Black History Month. The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Program is designed for key figures and leaders within the plant-based and food tech!-->…
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Vegan Women Summit Reveals Increase In Bias Faced By Female-Identifying Company Founders
The 2021 Women Founder Report, compiled by the Vegan Women’s Summit (VWS), highlights concerning trends facing female-identifying leaders. Despite the plant-based business world experiencing vast growth, attitudes towards non-male figures!-->…
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Climate Change Is A Feminist Issue Not Just an Environmental One
By: Sara London
In 2015, Botswana experienced its worst drought in history. Since then, families have had to move, taking their children out of schools; farmers have lost crops, leaving communities hungry and desperate.
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The Climate Crisis Is Forcing Women and Girls to Sell Their Bodies
By Anya Zoledziowski
A family fell on such hard times after a cyclone that when a man offered their daughter, 17, a job, they agreed. They later learned she was forced into the sex trade.
In May 2020, when the catastrophic!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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