The Net-Zero Challenge: Carbon Offsets Need to Stop
Stop pretending planting trees can justify fossil fuel emissions.
By Mark Schapiro, Capital & Main
Fossil fuel companies are no longer denying the realities of climate change — which many of them reported on privately!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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OMG GMO: Your Meat’s Hidden GMO Diet
Notes From the Frontlines of the Sustainable Food Movement – an opinion column by Irina Gerry
Have you ever smirked at the mention of a plant-based burger, deeming it unnatural because, well, #GMOs? Or perhaps you proudly fork into your!-->!-->!-->…
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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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Deep Dive: How the Livestock Lobby Sunk Its Teeth Into the EU’s Animal Welfare Legislations
Food and climate journalist Thin Lei Win shares more details and context about the Lighthouse Reports investigation she worked on with multiple journalists and co-published by The Guardian and IRPI exploring how meat lobby groups pushed!-->…
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California Just Passed a New Carbon Offset Law – Here’s What It Means for Businesses
The state of California has passed new climate laws that are meant to curb greenwashing linked with the voluntary carbon offsetting market, requiring companies and offset providers to be more transparent in their claims and disclosures.!-->…
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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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World Vegan Day 2023: 10 Key Stats on Progress, Problems and Potential
Today marks the 29th World Vegan Day, and the start of World Vegan Month. We'll see a host of announcements, launches, and releases, especially leading up to Veganuary – but how far has veganism come, and how far does it have to go? Here!-->…
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Vegan White Fish: Nestlé Adds to the Growing List of Plant-Based Seafood Launches
Nestlé has announced the launch of three new vegan white fish SKUs in Europe and Asia, as it becomes the latest brand to release a plant-based seafood product to cater to the growing demand for seafood and sustainable proteins.
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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.
There is so much regulatory red tape around!-->!-->!-->…
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Mushrooms For Climate: Urban Fungi Startup Tupu Reels in $3.2M in Seed Funding
Berlin-based agtech startup Tupu has raised $3.2M in a seed funding round to grow mushrooms directly in cities. The firm combines its patent-pending modular farming tech with bioscience, robotics and artificial intelligence to offer!-->…
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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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Climate-Resilient Coffee: Meet Amatera, The French Startup That Raised €1.5M to Accelerate Its Perennial Crop Tech
French biotech startup Amatera, which develops non-GMO, climate-friendly perennial plants using crop genetics technology, has closed a €1.5M pre-seed funding round to speed up production of its regulatory-compliant coffee varieties.
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Vegan Caviar: The 5 Best Plant-Based Brands to Make Your Next Ultra-Luxe Dinner Party Roe-markable
Molecular gastronomy is great and all that, but if you're looking for minimum fuss, some brands are making vegan caviar that will have your dinner guests doubting you.
Caviar isn't something that most of us eat on the regular – and!-->!-->!-->…
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APAC Countries Suffer from Increasing Food System Risks, According to a New Index
Food system risks are increasing in most Asia-Pacific countries despite higher production and better access to food, with market instability and slow climate improvements leaving many countries vulnerable to human health and nutrition!-->…
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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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Nutri-Score and Eco-Labels: Is Carbon & Nutrition Labelling the Future of Food Packaging?
Consumers are more focused on personal and planetary health than ever before, governments are clamping down on greenwashing, and businesses are offering services to cut climate impacts and provide better labelling – are labels like!-->…
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COP28: UN Climate Summit Confirms Two-Thirds of Food Will Be Meatless This Year
Months after confirming that this year's UN climate summit will have a "mostly vegan" menu, the COP28 Presidency has announced that two-thirds of the 250,000 meals served daily will be vegan and vegetarian. The move comes as experts!-->…
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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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