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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.

Climate Change

More Heat, More Inflation: Study Confirms That Climate Change is Driving Up Food Prices

Anay Mridul Mar 28, 2024

Climate change and related extreme weather events will speed up global inflation and lead to higher prices for food, goods and services in the coming years, according to a new study. The food industry's emissions are heating up the…
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Fermentation-Based Alt Protein

Berkeley Researchers Earmark Koji Mould as Game-Changer for Meat Alternatives

Anay Mridul Mar 28, 2024

A centuries-old ingredient that has been underutilised, according to researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, koji mould could hold the key to better-tasting meat analogues with a superior texture. In Japan, it's known…
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Alt Protein

Shicken Secures Additional £4M Funding from Veg Capital to Scale Up Asian Alt-Meat Portfolio

Anay Mridul Mar 28, 2024

UK startup Shicken has raised £4M in funds from Matthew Glover's Veg Capital, which has tripled its investment in the plant-based meat brand. The financing will go into a manufacturing facility to scale up production of its Asian-inspired…
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Fermentation-Based Alt Protein

Aqua Cultured Foods to Roll Out Fish-Free Seafood in Chicago Restaurants After Tapping Ginkgo’s Microbial Expertise

Anay Mridul Mar 27, 2024

Chicago-based startup Aqua Cultured Foods has partnered with Boston's synbio firm Ginkgo Bioworks to optimise the production of its fermentation-derived whole-cut seafood. It will soon launch its first analogues at Michelin-starred…
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Fermentation-Based Alt Protein

The Protein Brewery Earns US & Singapore Regulatory Approval for Fermotein Ingredient

Anay Mridul Mar 27, 2024

Dutch food tech startup The Protein Brewery has received regulatory approval from US and Singapore authorities to produce and market its fungi-derived fermented ingredient, Fermotein. Joining a growing list of alternative protein…
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Future Foods

Future Food Quick Bites: IKEA Hot Dogs, Blended Dairy & Expo West Awards

Anay Mridul Mar 27, 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 IKEA's cheaper-than-meat vegan hot dogs, a new range of blended dairy…
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Future Foods

Aloha Unveils Second Plant Protein Bar with Terviva’s Climate-Resilient Ponova Oil

Anay Mridul Mar 27, 2024

New York-based plant protein brand Aloha has launched the Pa'akai Bar, the second product born out of its collaboration with Californian company Terviva, which uses its edible pongamia bean oil called Ponova. A year after releasing the…
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Health

The Power of Portions: How Reducing Portion Sizes Can Cut Food Waste & Tackle Obesity

Anay Mridul Mar 26, 2024

Reducing portion sizes of food and beverage offerings in both the foodservice and packaged goods spaces can address the United States' growing food waste and obesity problems, according to a new report. In 2014, the McKinsey Global…
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Climate Change

How Can Investors Engage the Fossil Fuel Companies ‘Way Off Track’ from Paris Agreement Goals?

Anay Mridul Mar 26, 2024

Despite making big climate pledges, the world's largest oil and gas companies are "way off track" from reducing any emissions, with plans to instead increase production. Here's what investors need to consider. In Dubai last year,…
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Vegan

Rewe to Open First Fully Vegan Supermarket in Germany: Report

Anay Mridul Mar 26, 2024

German retail giant the Rewe Group is set to open its first 100% vegan supermarket in Germany, after introducing fully plant-based stores under its Billa supermarket chain in neighbouring Austria in 2022. Rewe is on the verge of opening…
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Future Foods

FoodTech 500: Plant-Based Companies Lead the Way in Forward Fooding’s Annual List of Food Innovators

Anay Mridul Mar 25, 2024

Described as the “Fortune 500 of agrifood tech”, food tech consultancy Forward Fooding has released its 2023 FoodTech 500 list, with the highest number of companies belonging to the plant-based sector. Other alternative protein startups…
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Future Foods

FoodTech World Cup: FoodHack & Givaudan Launch Global Tournament for Industry Disruptors

Anay Mridul Mar 25, 2024

Food tech community FoodHack and ingredient and fragrance giant Givaudan have teamed up to launch a FoodTech World Cup, a global competition aimed at finding disruptive technologies and consumer concepts. With investment in the agrifood…
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Climate Change

Death by Fossil: Oil & Gas Emissions Could Kill 11.5 Million People by 2100

Anay Mridul Mar 25, 2024

Emissions from burning the oil and gas produced by some of the largest fossil fuel companies could cause millions of deaths by the end of the century, according to new research. Air pollution from fossil fuel use kills five million…
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Climate Change

Consent Defence: UK Climate Activists Lose ‘Last Remaining’ Protection for Criminal Damage During Protests

Anay Mridul Mar 22, 2024

This week, climate protestors in England and Wales prosecuted for criminal damage lost the right to use the 'consent defence', which has been available to them since 1971 and led to a series of acquittals in the past. Four years ago,…
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Cell-Based News

Ahead of Singapore Launch, Meatable Can Now Make Cultivated Meat Quicker Than Anyone Else

Anay Mridul Mar 22, 2024

Dutch cultivated meat leader Meatable has cut the production time for its cultivated meat by half, making it the fastest process in the sector. This means its hybrid pork sausages are much cheaper to produce, months before their expected…
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Future Foods

Bee-Free Honey: MeliBio Partners with Pow.Bio to Scale Up Precision-Fermented Sweetener with AI

Anay Mridul Mar 22, 2024

One of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies for 2024, Californian food tech startup MeliBio has teamed up with Pow.Bio to scale up production of its bee-free honey made from precision fermentation. After a year of multiple product…
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Alt Protein

Q&A with Max Elder: ‘Alt-Protein Needs to Engage the Cultural & Political Elephants’

Anay Mridul Mar 22, 2024

Max Elder, co-founder of former plant-based meat company Nowadays and managing director of Food System Innovations, reflects on the journey of his vegan chicken nugget startup, explains why it was forced to cease trading, talks VC funding…
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Alt Protein

Meat Paradox: Americans are Eating More Plant-Based, But Also More Red Meat

Anay Mridul Mar 21, 2024

A majority of Americans recognise the health and environmental benefits of vegan food, yet only a quarter are willing to adopt plant-rich diets. Plus, there has been an increase in red meat consumption over the years, according to a new…
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Fermentation-Based Alt Protein

Sweet Protein: Oobli Receives FDA GRAS Letter for Game-Changing Precision-Fermented Sugar Alternative

Anay Mridul Mar 21, 2024

Californian food tech startup Oobli has received a 'no further questions' letter from the FDA for its Oubli Sweet Protein made from precision fermentation. The ingredient leverages West African fruits to make a sugar alternative that has…
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India

The Pure Veg U-Turn: The Zomato Debacle That Divided the World’s Largest Vegetarian Minority

Anay Mridul Mar 21, 2024

This week, Indian food delivery service Zomato launched a Pure Veg Mode in its app for people to order from 100% vegetarian restaurants – but it has sparked intense debate about casteism and religious discrimination after announcing a…
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Green Finance

Cash Cows: Banks Have Financed Over Half a Trillion Dollars to Increase Meat & Dairy Production Since the 2015 Paris Agreement

Anay Mridul Mar 21, 2024

Since world leaders signed the landmark Paris Agreement in 2015, banks and financial institutions have credited livestock producers with $615B to increase meat and dairy production, according to a new study. It's not just public funding…
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