2021

A new climate documentary narrated by Oscar award-winning actress Kate Winslet is set to spotlight the true cost of our food choices. Debuting next month, Eating Our Way To Extinction addresses the “hard truths” of what’s driving…
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Hong Kong-based OmniFoods is continuing its global expansion, with shoppers in the U.S. now able to purchase its famous vegan pork alternatives at Sprouts Farmers Market and Whole Foods. All three of the brand’s OmniPork products—Ground,…
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One billion children globally are facing “extreme” risk from the impacts of the climate crisis, experts from Unicef warn.
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China's biggest online grocery platform Pinduoduo says it's going to set aside 10 billion RMB (US$1.5 billion) for sustainable ag-tech.
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A new vegan meal delivery platform, Insane Meals, has launched in Singapore, with a focus on vegan meat from top-named brands.
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British plant-based brand Squeaky Bean is getting a second 48,000-square-foot factory to ramp up production of its vegan chicken.
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There’s a new cellular agriculture startup on the block, but unlike many others, it doesn’t want to make a name for itself as a brand of cultivated meat. Instead, it wants to help other companies that are using cell-ag to scale up and…
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This week in Alt Food, a Michelin-starred chef gets into cultured meat, Chipotle debuts plant-based chorizo, and a new vegan butter hits store shelves.
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Amid the pandemic-driven global awareness over health, sustainability and wellness, Asia’s leading regional tradeshow, Natural and Organic Asia (NOA), is returning to Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre for the eighth…
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Leading climate summit COP26 isn't promoting a fully plant-based menu this year even though it's the key to slowing climate change.
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Vegware, a British biobased industrially compostable food packaging company, has been acquired by American packaging firm Novolex. While it will be joining Novelex's sustainable packaging subsidiary Eco-Products, Vegware’s label will…
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Sonalie Figueiras talk to Larissa Zimberoff about her new book Technically Food: Inside Silicon Valley’s Mission to Change What We Eat.
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Crafty Counter, a Texan startup known for its plant-based Wunder Nuggets, has debuted what it claims to be the world’s first 100% plant-based hard-boiled egg. The alternative, WunderEggs, which cooks, looks and tastes like a real chicken…
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Jackfruit is all the rage right now, with herbivores and the plant-curious alike dubbing it the perfect natural vegan substitute for everything from pulled pork burgers to meaty stews. But one startup, based in Malaysia, believes…
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Worldwide, we consume around 7 million tons of chocolate every year. But as with other sectors of the food industry like meat and dairy, mainstream chocolate is under a lot more scrutiny these days for unsustainable production methods and…
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Eating more plant-based foods is linked to reduced risk of heart disease among adults and in older middle-aged women, new research has found. The findings, based on two studies published as part of an American Heart Association report,…
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Quorn, the British legacy meat-free brand, has announced the opening of its new culinary facility in Dallas. The move is part of the firm’s expansion plan into the U.S. market, as its Manila-based parent company Monde Nissin shifts the…
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During a pre-Food Systems Summit forum hosted by the dairy industry, Genesis Butler was removed for asking about climate change. So the UN gave her a platform.
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In a new report on global inequality in water pollution, fast fashion brands in Europe, the U.S., and U.K. were highlighted as major drivers of water pollution across Africa’s rivers. While also a source of revenue and job creation for the…
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Melt&Marble, a Swedish company tapping precision fermentation to make sustainable animal-free fats, has bagged €750,000 in seed funding.
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Pangaia, the London-based sustainable brand, has added two new bio-based alternatives dubbed PlntFiber and FrutFiber to its material line-up.
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