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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.

Cell-Based News

Ivy Farm Targets 2025 Cultivated Meat Launch After Deal to Produce at World’s ‘Largest’ Alt-Protein Facility

Anay Mridul May 20, 2024

UK food tech startup Ivy Farm has inked a manufacturing partnership to scale up at a new alternative protein facility in Finland. After hosting a tasting of its cultivated beef yesterday, it's aiming to launch its first sales next year. …
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Alt Protein

Analysing Impossible Foods CEO’s Bloomberg Interview, and What It Implies for Plant-Based Meat

Anay Mridul May 17, 2024

Impossible Foods CEO Peter McGuinness sat down with Bloomberg Television to talk about the struggles of plant-based meat, consumer preferences, and a potential IPO. The plant-based meat category was launched incorrectly, there are too…
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Alt Materials

Insempra Raises $20M Series A Round to Expand Precision-Fermented Lipid Production

Anay Mridul May 17, 2024

German biotech startup Insempra has closed a $20M Series A funding round to expand the production of its yeast-fermented lipids for food and cosmetics. Led by EQT Ventures, the Series A round builds on Insempra's 2021 seed funding to…
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Coffee

Nestlé Brings Plant-Based & Upcycled RTD Coffee Products to China

Anay Mridul May 17, 2024

Nestlé has introduced six new coffee lines to China, which include plant-based beverages and a first-of-its-kind upcycled innovation. Already a market leader for 36 years now, global CPG giant Nestlé has invigorated its coffee portfolio…
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Alt Dairy

The World’s Largest Dairy Company Just Launched A Plant-Based Milk Brand

Anay Mridul May 17, 2024

Lactalis Canada, a subsidiary of the French dairy giant, has introduced a new plant-based milk brand to the market, just after converting one of its facilities into a fully vegan hub. In a huge sign of the plant-based industry's…
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Policy & Regulation

Iowa Restricts Labelling & SNAP Purchases of Meat and Egg Alternatives – and Extends Tax Break for Livestock

Anay Mridul May 16, 2024

Iowa governor Kim Reynolds has just signed a bill that restricts the labelling of meat and egg alternatives, as well as excludes them from federal food assistance programmes. Plant-based and cultivated meat and eggs are now subject to…
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Cell-Based News

Simple Planet Eyes 2025 Regulatory Approval in South Korea After $8M Government Grant for Cultivated Meat

Anay Mridul May 16, 2024

Korean food tech startup Simple Planet has received ₩11B ($8.1M) for a government project to boost food security, and targets regulatory approval for its cultivated meat ingredients next year. South Koreans could be eating cultivated…
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Alt Protein

The Vegetarian Butcher to Use The Every Company’s Animal-Free Egg Whites for Plant-Based Meat

Anay Mridul May 16, 2024

Dutch plant-based meat startup The Vegetarian Butcher has teamed up with Californian precision fermentation pioneer The Every Company to use its animal-free egg whites in meat analogues. Unilever-owned The Vegetarian Butcher will make…
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Cell-Based News

Eat Just Debuts Cultivated Meat in Retail at Singapore’s Huber’s Butchery

Anay Mridul May 16, 2024

Californian cultivated meat pioneer Eat Just has hit a major milestone in the sector, debuting Good Meat chicken in the freezers of Huber's Butchery in Singapore – the first time these proteins are available in retail. You can now…
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Alt Protein

2023 State of the Marketplace: 8 Takeaways for Plant-Based Brands from PBFA’s Latest Report

Anay Mridul May 15, 2024

Health, e-commerce and almond milk are vital in a sector that shows long-term potential despite recent headwinds, according to a new report by the Plant-Based Foods Association. In spite of a rough year for sales and investment in the…
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Food & Nutrition

Europeans Are Less Trusting of Their Food Now, and Care Less About Sustainability Too

Anay Mridul May 15, 2024

Fewer people in Europe have trust in their food system and are taking sustainability into account, and the lack of progress in improving their diets is "worrying", according to a new report. European consumer confidence in the health…
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Future Foods

Future Food Quick Bites: Delicious Salads, Vegan Lidl & EU Support

Anay Mridul May 15, 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 a vegan salad partnership, a plant-based cheese rebrand and EU funding…
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Climate Change

Industry Execs & UK Government Form ‘Resilience Group’ to Discuss Climate Risks to Food Supply

Anay Mridul May 15, 2024

In the UK, food industry heads and the government have agreed to meet for a series of discussions about the impact of the climate crisis on the food supply chain. As the climate crisis threatens crops, farmers and the food supply, a…
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Health

Better Juice Earns Self-Affirmed GRAS Status to Reduce Sugars in Fruit Products by 80%

Anay Mridul May 14, 2024

Israeli startup Better Juice, which has developed a device that reduces sugar in fruit products by 80%, has obtained self-determined GRAS status in the US. In the world of Ozempic and GLP-1, sugar innovations are booming. The latest…
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Alt Dairy

New Culture Strikes Deal with CJ CheilJedang to Drive Down Animal-Free Casein Costs

Anay Mridul May 14, 2024

San Francisco startup New Culture has partnered with South Korean food giant CJ CheilJedang on a manufacturing deal to enable low-cost production of its precision-fermented casein. New Culture, the first precision-fermented casein…
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Travel

Q&A with Ethos Santorini’s Artemis Sorotou: ‘Our Ultimate Goal is to Attract Non-Vegans to Our Hotel’

Anay Mridul May 14, 2024

There's a new luxury vegan hotel in Santorini, with biodegradable toiletries, bamboo slippers, and, of course, a plant-based breakfast. Co-owner Artemis Sorotou spills the beans on the Ethos Vegan Retreat. While the world of ethical and…
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Food & Nutrition

Tesco Takes the Whole-Food Route with New Plant-Forward Private-Label Range

Anay Mridul May 14, 2024

First announced in November, Tesco has rolled out its newest private-label ready meal range – it's all about the vegetables. The meat-free category in the UK fell hard last year, as consumer concerns about ultra-processed foods…
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Climate Change

Only 6% of Climate Scientists Think We’ll Meet Our 1.5°C Target

Anay Mridul May 13, 2024

A majority of the world's top climate scientists say we're on our way to breaching the 2.5°C barrier this century – and only 6% believe we'll meet our 1.5°C budget. The only way we stand a chance is through heavily accelerated action. …
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Coffee

Inside Starbucks’ Farmer Support Centers to Secure the Future of Coffee

Anay Mridul May 13, 2024

Starbucks buys 3% of all coffee in the world – so its responsibility to safeguard the future of the industry, which is being ravaged by climate change, can't be understated. Here's how it's helping coffee farmers adapt and thrive. It's…
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Alt Protein

Policy Support for Alternative Proteins Could Free Up 44% of European Land & Boost Self-Sufficiency

Anay Mridul May 13, 2024

In the least optimistic scenario, alternative proteins could displace a sixth of meat and dairy consumption in Europe. In the best-case outcome, they could replace two-thirds of animal proteins by 2050 and make the region self-sufficient. …
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Climate Change

COP29 to Utilise Green Issues to Ease Global Tensions & Prevent Climate-Fuelled Conflicts

Anay Mridul May 13, 2024

This year's UN climate conference could ask nations to observe a "COP truce" and focus on preventing future conflicts charged by climate change, COP29 host country Azerbaijan has said. After an intense COP28 that delivered and…
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