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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.

Future Foods

Future Food Quick Bites: Dairy-Free Mozzarella Sticks, Vegan Wetherspoons & Indian Cultivated Meat

Anay Mridul Oct 2, 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 Sunday Supper's plant-based mozzarella sticks, M&S's new vegan…
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Cell-Based News

US Republicans Fear China’s Biotech Revolution – Are They Finally Embracing Cultivated Meat?

Anay Mridul Oct 2, 2024

China's potential biotech dominance – especially its progress with cultivated meat – has spurred Republicans to call for US action to ensure "continued leadership". What would it take for a Republican to support cultivated meat? …
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Chocolate

Choruba & the Chocolate Factory: Italy’s Foreverland Bites Into €3.4M for New Cocoa-Free Chocolate Products

Anay Mridul Oct 1, 2024

Cocoa-free chocolate maker Foreverland has raised €3.4M ($3.76M) in a seed funding round to open its first production facility for its carob-based Choruba alternative. Puglia-based startup Foreverland has got investors' tastebuds…
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Future Foods

LanzaTech Expands Gas Fermentation Tech to Recycle Waste Carbon Into Protein, Partners with US Military

Anay Mridul Oct 1, 2024

Synbio firm LanzaTech has extended its carbon recycling operations to human food applications with a new protein, and teamed up with the US military on a joint project. A company that turns waste carbon emissions into high-value…
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Alt Dairy

Those Vegan Cowboys Unveils Animal-Free Casein for Meltier, Stretchier Cheese

Anay Mridul Oct 1, 2024

Dutch-Belgian food tech startup Those Vegan Cowboys has debuted its precision-fermented casein protein, with plans to launch animal-free cheese in 2025. Animal-free casein is having a moment. From new startups pushing the envelope with…
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Fermentation-Based Alt Protein

Kinoko-Tech Inks Deal to Roll Out Fungi Products in Australia, From Zero-Waste Burgers to Mycelium Muesli Bars

Anay Mridul Oct 1, 2024

Israel's Kinoko-Tech has partnered with Australia's Metaphor Foods to commercialise a range of mycelium protein products – including sausages, flapjacks and chips – down under. How would you like some fungi in your morning granola…
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Alt Protein

US Think Tank Bets On Japan’s Protein Transition with New Tokyo Office

Anay Mridul Oct 1, 2024

To meet Japan's alternative protein potential, the Good Food Institute has opened an office in the country just as a new prime minister is sworn in. The Good Food Institute (GFI) has opened a new office in Japan, banking on the…
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Climate Change

Sweden, the Origin of ‘Flight Shame’, Scraps Aviation Tax – Despite Rise in Emissions

Anay Mridul Sep 30, 2024

The Swedish government has announced that it is abolishing the flight tax it introduced in 2018 to combat aviation emissions, in a move welcomed by the industry and heavily criticised by climate activists. Greta Thunberg has been let…
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Climate Change

How Food Companies Should Report & Reduce Their Emissions with Better Progress Markers for Investors

Anay Mridul Sep 30, 2024

Are corporate climate actions on par with their emissions targets and disclosures? A new report explores this very question. Food companies are making some progress on reducing their greenhouse gas footprints, but they’re slow to…
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Alt Protein

The Raging Pig Co Attracts Investment to Expand Vegan Pork Products & Launch Mycelium Meat

Anay Mridul Sep 30, 2024

German meat analogue maker The Raging Pig Company has closed a seed funding round ahead of its move into mycelium protein. As it gears up to enter the mycelium market, vegan pork startup The Raging Pig Company has secured an undisclosed…
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Alt Protein

Ahead of Opening World’s Largest Cultivated Meat Factory, Believer Meats Taps GEA to Drive Down Costs

Anay Mridul Sep 30, 2024

Israel's Believer Meats has joined forces with German engineering firm GEA to help scale up production of cultivated meat, ahead of opening the industry's largest facility next year. Early next year, the world's largest manufacturing…
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Alt Protein

Despite Declines, Plant-Based Meat is Selling Better Than It Did Pre-Pandemic

Anay Mridul Sep 27, 2024

Retail sales of plant-based meat have been shrinking, but they're still higher than pre-pandemic levels. Opportunities lie in price cuts and bundling these analogues with fresh produce. In 2023, sales of vegan meat and seafood fell by…
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Fermentation-Based Alt Protein

Estonia’s Äio Secures €6.1M for Demo Facility to Turn Sawdust Into Palm Oil & Animal Fat Alternatives

Anay Mridul Sep 27, 2024

Estonian startup Äio has closed a €6.1M ($6.8M) funding round to build a facility for its fermentation-derived alternatives to palm oil and animal fats. Transforming agricultural and woodworking waste into oils to replace planet-harming…
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Alt Protein

Amid NHS Blended Meat Deal, Sales Hit 6-Year Low for Quorn Maker Marlow Foods

Anay Mridul Sep 27, 2024

Marlow Foods, the parent company of Quorn and Cauldron Foods, saw pre-tax losses surpass £60M in 2023, four times higher than the year before. As the wider meat analogue category struggles, the company behind the UK's leading meat-free…
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Future Foods

Researchers Are Using Baker’s Yeast to Turn Carbon Dioxide Into Protein & Folate

Anay Mridul Sep 26, 2024

Scientists have discovered a way to turn gases into yeast that contains more protein than beef and enough folate to meet your daily requirements. What if acetate and carbon dioxide could help you meet your daily nutritional needs? …
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Climate Change

Big Oil Has Spent $5.6B in Global ‘Sportswashing’ Sponsorship Deals: Report

Anay Mridul Sep 26, 2024

Fossil fuel companies are spending billions on sponsorship deals with some of the world's biggest sports entities in an attempt to 'sportswash' their role in climate change. Manchester United's new part-owners Ineos, FIFA's primary…
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Climate Change

Qarbotech Gains $1.5M to Expand Photosynthesis Enhancing Tech Across Southeast Asia

Anay Mridul Sep 26, 2024

Malaysian climate tech startup Qarbotech has secured $1.5M in a seed extension round to help plants absorb carbon dioxide and increase yields by 60%. What if farmers could add something to their crops that would capture more sunlight,…
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Policy & Regulation

Tyson Foods Faces Greenwashing Lawsuit Over ‘Climate-Smart’ Brazen Beef

Anay Mridul Sep 26, 2024

US meat giant Tyson Foods has been sued by an environmental group for misleading consumers about the sustainability credentials of its "climate-smart" Brazen Beef. Tyson Foods, America's largest beef producer, is being accused of…
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Alt Protein

How Rebellyous Foods’s New Mock 2 Platform Makes Cost-Competitive Plant-Based Meat

Anay Mridul Sep 25, 2024

Seattle startup Rebellyous Foods has unveiled its Mock 2 Production System, which reduces the cost of manufacturing plant-based meat to reach parity with animal proteins. In February 2023, Rebellyous Foods closed a $9.4M Series B…
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Fermentation-Based Alt Protein

Helaina Raises $45M to Launch Effera Human Lactoferrin with Kroma Wellness, Mitsubishi & More

Anay Mridul Sep 25, 2024

US startup Helaina has closed a $45M Series B round to commercialise Effera Human Lactoferrin, its breast milk equivalent protein, in the US later this year. Helaina, the New York-based firm making breast milk alternatives with…
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Future Foods

Future Food Quick Bites: Slutty Vegas, Impossible Chicken Salads & A Vegan Cream Liqueur

Anay Mridul Sep 25, 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 Upside Foods' tasting event at a taqueria, Japan Airlines' sweet protein…
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