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Impossible Foods debuts plant-based pork at CES

AGreenLiving

According to the Impossible Foods website, “Animal agriculture uses a tremendous amount of the world’s natural resources,” particularly land, water and energy. It reduces not only the deforestation associated with animal agriculture but also minimizes carbon emissions and water usage. Impossible Foods Image via Impossible Foods.

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Reducing Food System Emissions, One Bite At A Time

Energy Innovation

For example, when a forest—which naturally absorbs and stores carbon dioxide as trees grow—is logged and converted to grazing or agricultural land, GHGs are released as trees decompose. Additional emissions result from tilling soils and applying fertilizers for agricultural production. Resources, Conservation and Recycling , 180 , p.106156.

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Report: Lab-grown meat investment tops $350m worldwide in 2020

Business Green

Good Food Institute report details record-breaking year for the fledgling sector, amid growing interest in greener, more ethical alternatives to livestock-reared meat. As such, the report paints a bullish picture for the future of the burgeoning lab-grown meat industry.

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Casein… from potatoes? Molecular farming startup Finally Foods emerges from stealth

AFN Sustainable Protein

“We are not aiming to supply the market with a mixture of casein proteins and other proteins from the host plant [unlike Moolec Science for instance, which plans to sell soy proteins with animal protein embedded in the matrix for ‘meatier’ meat alternatives].

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Why technology could make animals obsolete

AFN Sustainable Protein

Today we’re announcing AgFunder’s upcoming alternative protein fund to invest in animal protein alternatives, including plant-based alternatives, cellular agriculture, and the picks and shovels technologies required to enable this emerging industry. . Here there be Dragons. billion consumers by 2050.