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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Climate Doomism Is Bad Storytelling – If We Want To Trigger Action, We Need To Lead With Hope
Climate doomism, the view that humanity has lost the climate battle, makes us feel helpless and anxious. It also stops us from taking action.
By: Anastasia Denisova, Senior Lecturer in Journalism, University of Westminster
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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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Zero Cow Factory Raises $4 Million for Its Precision Fermentation Casein
Zero Cow Factory, India's first precision fermentation dairy producer, has secured $4 million (INR 32 crore) in a Seed funding round led by Green Frontier Capital, GVFL, and Pi Ventures, with participation from Pascual Innoventures.
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Danone Drops $2 Million Into Wilk’s Cultured Breast Milk
French dairy conglomerate Danone has agreed to a strategic $2 million investment deal with Israeli cell-based breast milk startup Wilk.
Danone's investment into Wilk is part of a $3.5 million financing round for the food tech startup.!-->!-->!-->…
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Supplant’s Second Product Upcycles Wheat Stalks Into Sustainable, Fiber-Rich Flour
The Supplant Company has launched Grain & Stalk Flour — a flour blend that uses more of the wheat plant by deriving matter from both the grain and the stalk.
According to Supplant, its new flour maintains the taste and texture of!-->!-->!-->…
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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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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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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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Climate Change Is Coming for Big Meat in a Big Way, New FAIRR Report Finds
A new analysis by FAIRR's Climate Risk Tool has found that half of the world's largest livestock firms may be at risk of operating losses by 2030 due to climate-related cost increases.
According to the new FAIRR report, 20 of the 40!-->!-->!-->…
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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.
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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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Cauldron Raises AU$10.5 Million to Scale Australia’s Precision Fermentation ‘Fermaculture’
Australian precision fermentation company Cauldron, has raised AU$10.5 million to build Asia-Pacific's largest network of precision fermentation facilities using a revolutionary hyper-fermentation platform.
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