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Anay is Green Queen's resident news reporter. Originally from India, he worked as a vegan food writer and editor in London, and is now travelling and reporting from across Asia. He's passionate about coffee, plant-based milk, cooking, eating, veganism, food tech, writing about all that, profiling people, and the Oxford comma.

Food & Nutrition

Land Grabs & Carbon Offset Schemes are Threatening Farmers & Food Production: New Report

Anay Mridul May 28, 2024

Land grabs and carbon offsetting schemes have sent land prices soaring, putting a strain on farmers, rural communities and food production, and threatening food security globally. Since the financial crash of 2007-08, global land prices…
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Alt Protein

Incubate & Commercialise: Two New Alternative Protein Centres Signal Industry’s Potential in India

Anay Mridul May 27, 2024

In the last week, two new centres dedicated to smart proteins have opened in Bengaluru, India, aimed at incubating alternative protein startups and helping them manufacture and commercialise their products. India has the third-largest…
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Cell-Based News

UK to Evaluate Novel Foods Based on Track Record of Regulatory Approval in Other Countries

Anay Mridul May 27, 2024

The UK's Food Standards Agency is set to announce plans to introduce a "sliding scale" mechanism for the regulatory approval of novel foods, which will take into account products' track record internationally. As regulation around…
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Human Rights

Hospital Didn’t Violate Human Rights with Lack of Vegan Food for Pregnant Woman, Rules Court

Anay Mridul May 27, 2024

A Danish court has thrown out a case brought by a woman who claimed her rights were violated after a hospital did not offer adequate vegan options during her pregnancy. Despite one district court recognising veganism as a protected…
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Climate Change

EU Cracks Down on ESG Investment Fund Names with New Greenwashing Rules

Anay Mridul May 27, 2024

The EU's corporate watchdog has finalised its guidelines on the requirements for investment funds to use environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) in their names, in an effort to combat greenwashing. The European…
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Alt Protein

Lidl Boosts Plant-Based Meat Sales by 7% by Putting Them in the Meat Aisle

Anay Mridul May 24, 2024

Lidl Netherlands has completed a successful pilot experiment by placing plant-based analogues next to meat in stores. The results? A 7% sales growth. Discount retailer Lidl is continuing its recent efforts to ramp up its vegan product…
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Consumer Trends & Insights

The Foodservice Playbook: How to Nudge Diners Into Picking Sustainable, Plant-Based Dishes

Anay Mridul May 24, 2024

People's decisions when eating out are heavily impacted by the dining environments they're in – here's how foodservice operators can nudge plant-based choices. A host of trials recently have shown the power of behavioural science…
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Consumer Trends & Insights

Business Guru Scott Galloway on the Four Things Plant-Based Meat Businesses Should Do

Anay Mridul May 24, 2024

Speaking on his Prof G Pod, marketing expert and professor Scott Galloway laid out the steps plant-based meat brands need to take to secure their future. Scott Galloway is a man known for being right when it comes to the business world.…
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Climate Change

Only 1% of Climate Reporting in Czech Media Tackles Animal Agriculture: Study

Anay Mridul May 24, 2024

Czech media outlets are vastly underreporting the link between food and climate change, despite the sector contributing to 7.6% of the country's emissions. The food system is responsible for a third of global greenhouse gas emissions,…
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Alt Protein

No Meat On the Riviera: Cannes Film Festival Bans Beef to Reduce Carbon Footprint

Anay Mridul May 23, 2024

Beef is on the chopping block (so to speak) at Cannes, one of the world's biggest film festivals, whose organisers acknowledge it is the "biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions" in the food system. While there may be some beef over…
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Future Foods

PoLoPo Submits Molecular Farming Platform for USDA Approval to Grow Egg Proteins in Potatoes

Anay Mridul May 23, 2024

Israeli startup PoLoPo has filed for USDA approval of its molecular farming platform, which genetically engineers potatoes to produce egg proteins within the plant. PoLoPo is pursuing regulatory approval in the US for its molecular…
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Fermentation-Based Alt Protein

Enifer Gets €24M in New Funding to Build Mycoprotein Factory That Will Feed 40,000 People Each Year

Anay Mridul May 23, 2024

Finnish biotech startup Enifer has received €24M in new investments to support the construction of a commercial-scale facility for its Pekilo mycoprotein. It expects to receive EU novel food approval by 2026. The latest set of funding…
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Climate Change

The Beef Tallow Trend is Bad for the Planet – Why’re We Doing This?

Anay Mridul May 23, 2024

Beef tallow is on a resurgent streak, thanks in part to the apprehension against seed oils. But have we forgotten about the planet? If you, like me, grew up outside America, but still loved going to McDonald's as a kid, the fries were…
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Zero Waste

CHOMP & TMS Founders Carla Martinesi & Krystal Lai on Tackling Food Waste in Hong Kong

Sonalie Figueiras May 22, 2024

Two food waste warriors let us in on their efforts to turn surplus food into a sustainable dining experience in a city that throws out over a million tonnes of food each year. Hong Kong may be known as Asia's World City, a melting pot…
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Future Foods

Future Food Quick Bites: Vegan Doner Kebabs, Wild Salmon & Mayor Battles

Anay Mridul May 22, 2024

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 Revo Foods' new salmon analogue, a new vegan doner kebab, and Good…
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Climate Change

Economic Impact of Climate Change Six Times Worse Than Previously Thought: Report

Anay Mridul May 22, 2024

The global economic damage brought by climate change is six times greater than previously thought, according to a new white paper. If the world continues on its current path of consumption and planetary destruction, it will lead to…
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Climate Change

South Korea: Climate Inaction Hearing Could Set Precedent in Case Brought by Children – and An Unborn Baby

Anay Mridul May 21, 2024

South Korea's constitutional court today held its final hearing on four landmark cases brought by the public against the government's inaction on climate change. Experts say this could set a precedent. The South Korean government is…
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Fermentation-Based Alt Protein

ScaleUp Bio Obtains Food Manufacturing Licence for Precision Fermentation in Singapore

Anay Mridul May 21, 2024

The Singapore Food Agency has granted a food production licence to ScaleUp Bio's commercial-scale facility for submerged- and precision-fermented ingredients. ScaleUp Bio has received a food manufacturing licence from Singapore's…
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Alt Protein

In Israel, Alternative Proteins Could Create 10,000 Jobs & Contribute $2.5B by 2030: Report

Anay Mridul May 21, 2024

Israel is becoming a major hotspot for alternative proteins, accounting for 10% of the sector's investments last year, and expected to net $2.5B to the national economy by 2030, according to a new report. A robust research landscape,…
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Climate Change

Shell Sold $200M Worth of ‘Phantom’ Carbon Reduction Credits That Never Happened

Anay Mridul May 21, 2024

British fossil fuel producer Shell's flagship carbon facility – built on taxpayer money – has sold over $200M worth of emissions credits for reductions that never happened. Shell, one of the world's largest oil and gas companies, has…
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Alt Protein

In Germany, Plant-Based Meat Production Rose By 17% in 2023

Anay Mridul May 20, 2024

Germany – Europe's largest vegan market – produced nearly 17% more plant-based meat last year than in 2022, according to federal data. Two months after the German Society for Nutrition updated its dietary guidelines to recommend halving…
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