The ‘Loss and Damage’ Fund Breakthrough Offers Hope, But COP27’s Overall Outcome Remains Inadequate
By: Matt McDonald, Associate Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
For 30 years, developing nations have fought to establish an international fund to pay for the “loss and damage” they suffer as a result of!-->!-->!-->…
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Melibio’s Bee-Free Honey to Launch in Europe Next Year
MeliBio's novel vegan honey will launch in Europe next year through organic food producer Narayan Foods.
Melibio's honey will see its retail launch in European stores next year; Narayan's products are available in more than 75,000!-->!-->!-->…
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Bel Group Will Bring Precision Fermentation to Laughing Cow, Babybel, and Boursin
Following its investment in Standing Ovation earlier this year, the Bel Group says it has entered into an exclusive partnership with the dairy producer to bring precision fermentation into its catalog of products.
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You’re Already Eating Foods With Ingredients Made Using Precision Fermentation, So Why The Fuss About Animal-Free Dairy?
Precision fermentation has been around for decades, and most of us eat foods that contain ingredients made using the technology on a daily basis. Animal-free dairy makers are now using it to bring you the cheese and milk you love without!-->…
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5 Simple Ways to Have a Greener Thanksgiving
A happy holiday also brings with it traditions of excess. Check out our simple guide for a greener pumpkin day!
Pumpkin centerpieces, sweet potato mash, caramel apples...not to mention pecan AND pumpkin pie! Thanksgiving is fast!-->!-->!-->…
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Indonesia’s Green Rebel Launches Into Plant-Based Dairy Category
Following the first-ever dairy-free festival in Jakarta, Indonesia-based Green Rebel Foods has launched into the plant-based dairy category.
Green Rebel is a leading producer of plant-based protein across Southeast Asia. Its new!-->!-->!-->…
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Is ‘Climate Fatigue’ Curbing Climate Action? New Research Points to a Troublesome Trend
Decades of calls to action to curb greenhouse gas emissions have led to 'climate fatigue' around the world as the crisis becomes direr, new research finds.
Scientists have been calling for climate action for decades—and that continued!-->!-->!-->…
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OmniFoods Unveils Patented Vegan Fat And New Product Lines Including Beef Cuts, Chicken Wings And Pork Cutlets
Asian alternative meat maker OmniFoods has debuted a new patented technology, dubbed OmniNano™️ Vegan Fat, that will provide the juiciness that consumers expect from animal meat and power a new line of vegan beef, chicken and pork!-->…
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With 8 Billion People To Feed, Does Alt Protein Need A Rebrand?
Alternative protein has a naming problem. As a burgeoning global population gets hungrier and hungrier for meat, do we need to reframe the industry's identity?
I've been covering the alternative protein industry for over 6 years. At!-->!-->!-->…
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George Monbiot, Climate Activists Urge COP27 to Rewild and Embrace Alternative Protein
Environmentalist and writer George Monbiot joins climate activists on a new manifesto that lays out a sustainable future where all of the world's food can be grown in an area the size of London.
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Breaking: Upside Foods Earns FDA GRAS Status for Its Cultivated Meat in ‘Watershed Moment’
California-based cultivated meat producer Upside Foods has received FDA GRAS status for its cell-based chicken, becoming the first company in the U.S. to have its products designated as safe to eat.
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There Is No Such Thing As Sustainable Dairy
Notes From the Frontlines of the Sustainable Food Movement – a new opinion column by Irina Gerry
Images of happy cows on pasture hide the ugly truth the dairy industry doesn't want you to know: dairy production can never be sustainable.!-->!-->!-->…
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Meatable and Love Handle Are Developing Meat Made From Plants and Cell Cultures
Cultivated meat brand Meatable has announced a 'Future of Meat' innovation center in partnership with plant-based meat brand Love Handle in an effort to bring the two sectors together to co-create the future of food.
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BioFluff Closes a $500,000 Pre-Seed Funding Round for Plant-Based Fur
BioFluff, the San Francisco-based company producing plant-based fur, has closed a pre-seed funding round of $500,000, with funding from SOSV/IndieBio fund, Joyance partners, and Ataraxia Partners Limited, among others.
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Thrilling Foods Patents Its Fat-Streaked Vegan Bacon
Portland-based Thrilling Foods says it has earned a patent for its 'world's first' fat-streaked vegan 'bakon'.
Patents are rare in the plant-based meat category, says Thrilling Foods, but the young company's "protein-bound fat" streaks!-->!-->!-->…
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Vow Sets a Funding Record Ahead of Becoming the World’s Second Approved Cultivated Meat Brand
Vow says its Series A funding round comes as it expects approval from Singapore to begin selling its cultivated meat in restaurants later this year.
Australian cultivated meat producer Vow has closed a record-setting $49.2 million!-->!-->!-->…
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Juicy Marbles Debuts Whole-Cut Loin, ‘The Biggest, Most Insulting Piece of Plant Muscle’
Juicy Marbles, the plant-based meat brand known for its whole-cut steak, says its newest product, a whole-cut loin, is the 'biggest, most insulting piece of plant muscle ever conceived.'
The new Juicy Marbles loin was launched in!-->!-->!-->…
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Beyond Meat Expands to 1,600 Locations In Germany
Beyond Meat scores a European win with retail placement in 1,600 German supermarket locations.
Despite recent layoffs and cooling sales in the U.S. across the vegan sector, Europe's demand for plant-based food continues. It's good news!-->!-->!-->…
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Gen Z Is The Climate Career Generation, and These 5 Stats Prove It
Born after 1996, Gen Z are eating vegan meat, ditching plastic and joining climate protests. Now, they are launching climate careers too.
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Why Climate Grief is the Next Mental Health Crisis
As climate change and environmental degradation intensify, our psychological health is at stake. Climate grief is a natural response to threats to our physical, cultural, and community well-being.
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Cultivated Fat Startup Cultimate Raises €700,000 Pre-Seed
With backing from Big Idea Ventures, ProVeg International, and Realum.cloud, cultivated fat startup Cultimate has raised €700,000 in a pre-seed funding round.
The German-based Cultimate Foods is working to upgrade meat alternatives!-->!-->!-->…
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