Burger King Austria Ditches Dairy for Oatly’s Oat Milk in All Hot Drinks
Burger King Austria has announced that all hot drinks will now be made exclusively with Oatly's Baristamatic oat milk, phasing out cow's milk while retaining the price.
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Vegan Cheese Startup Stockeld Dreamery Shuts As Plant-Based Decline Foils Funding Plans
Swedish-American startup Stockled Dreamery, known for its fermented vegan cheese, has shut up shop, after deciding against raising capital amid the slowing momentum for plant-based products.
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Exclusive: With $8M In Funding, France’s Nutropy Eyes 2027 Launch of Animal-Free Cheese
French precision fermentation startup Nutropy has raised €7M ($8.1M) to scale up its casein proteins, targeting a launch of its "cheeseable milk" powder in 2027.
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Global CEOs Urge Governments & Businesses to Set Ambitious Climate Policies
The world's largest climate alliance of CEOs has called on governments and businesses to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy through ambitious environmental strategies.
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Dutch Meat Consumption Falls to Lowest Levels on Record, But Not Low Enough
In the Netherlands, individuals ate 74.4kg of meat on average in 2024, the lowest since records began two decades ago. But experts are calling for a faster transition.
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Patent Filings for Sustainable Proteins Continue to Fall, Shows New Study
Amid the slowdown in sales of plant-based meat and investment in alternative proteins, innovation is losing a little momentum too, according to a new patent analysis.
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Future Food Quick Bites: Just Chicken, Tesco & Crowdfunding Galore
Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Eat Just's vegan chicken, Beyond Meat's Walmart expansion, and Tesco's collab with La Vie.
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Bel, Standing Ovation Turn Whey Waste Into Recombinant Casein at Industrial Scale
French dairy giant Bel Group and precision fermentation firm Standing Ovation have completed an industrial-scale production run of casein by upcycling dairy industry waste.
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Parima Set to Receive FSANZ Approval for Cultivated Duck Under Gourmey Brand by August 2026
Food Standards Australia and New Zealand has formally accepted a dossier by French firm Parima to sell cultivated duck products, which is expected to be approved next year.
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Fungi Funding: Matr Foods Bags $23M to Scale Up Clean-Label Mycelium Meat
Danish food tech startup Matr Foods has raised €20M ($23M) in Series A funding for its mycelium meat alternatives, adding to the €20M debt funding it received from the EU in 2024.
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Beyond Meat Launches Test Kitchen to Give At-Home Cooks a Taste of Its New Products
Plant-based giant Beyond Meat has kicked off the Beyond Test Kitchen, releasing its clean-label Ground products and whole-cut mycelium steak to quick success.
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How A Former USDA Stalwart & White House Advisor is Leading the Plant-Based Fight
Sanah Baig, who has years of experience working for the US government, explains why she chose to join the Plant Based Foods Institute, and her thoughts on the MAHA and livestock lobby.
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How Knitup is Shedding Fashion Industry Waste with A Custom Knitwear Platform
Through its on-demand manufacturing platform, Knitup is helping clothing companies curb waste with data-driven design and rapid production timelines.
The future of fashion is less.
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Top Meat & Dairy Companies Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Saudi Arabia: Study
Combined emissions from the world's top meat and dairy producers are on par with those of the biggest fossil fuel companies, and higher than those of Saudi Arabia.
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Spanish Sustainable Protein Startups See 550% Jump in Funding: Report
Spain's alternative protein ecosystem is thriving, with investments rising by nearly 550% in 2024. Now, experts are calling for public funding and a national plant-based action plan.
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New Partnership Aims to Beef Up South Korea’s Future Food Sector
GFI APAC and the World FoodTech Council have signed a new partnership to accelerate innovation in South Korea's alternative protein ecosystem.
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GFI Buys SciFi Foods’s Cell Lines, Releases Them to Advance Cultivated Meat Research
The Good Food Institute has acquired cell lines and growth media from defunct startup SciFi Foods and partnered with Tufts University to make them available for cultivated meat researchers.
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As Some Back Out & Others Double Down, Hybrid Dairy Remains A Mystery
Dutch supermarket Albert Heijn has launched a blended yoghurt combining dairy with fava beans, just as Kerry has discontinued its hybrid Smug Dairy range in the UK.
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In Texas, Central Market is Selling Beef Blended with Mushrooms
Fable Food Co has launched its omnivore-favourite blended meat range at Central Market stores in Texas, the US's largest beef-producing state, and to great success.
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The Latest Sustainability Trend in Plant-Based Milk? Regenerative Farming
British oat milk maker Minor Figures has partnered with Wildfarmed to launch its first barista-style product with regeneratively grown oats.
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Factory Farming is the Leading Cause of Food Waste That Could Feed Two Billion People
A new report suggests that growing human-grade crops to feed animals in factory farms wastes more food than any other sector, threatening nutrition security and climate targets.
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