Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The crops will allow Heck Foods to "continue creating unique and interesting flavours" for its recently-launched plant-based meat-alternative range, which includes vegan sausages and burgers, the company said. What's most interesting is that we can do this in a sustainable way, year-round, on demand, and with absolutely no chemicals.

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2023

The shift towards more sustainable diets, farming, and food supply chains therefore offers a major investment opportunity for financial firms, according to the think tank. From halving food waste to stopping deforestation, six steps by investors could take 60 per cent of food's emissions off the table," added Elwin.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2020

kilograms per week, EU citizens currently consume around double the global average amount of meat per week. Greenpeace EU agriculture and forest campaigner Sini Eräjää said: "The science is overwhelming at this stage - overconsumption of meat and dairy is wrecking forests, crushing nature and heating the planet.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2020

A major new report from the Environmental Defense Fund asks some challenging questions about the limited progress the agricultural sector has made in tackling its out-sized climate and biodiversity impacts - and offers some invaluable guidance on how up its sustainability efforts. Livestock farming produces around 14.5

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Business Green

OCTOBER 25, 2022

New report reveals how retailers are committed to increasing their volume of sales of meat and dairy alternatives. The report predicted that plant-based proteins and meats could reach parity with conventional meats in terms of taste, texture, and cost between 2023 and 2031.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Mackey’s former partner Walter Robb told our editor Louisa he was also skeptical about processed meat alternatives on her podcast Future Food earlier this year.). Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger boasts 18 ingredients while the Impossible Burger packs 21, including a GMO derived yeast called heme as the main ingredient.

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Elemental Excelerator

DECEMBER 1, 2022

This is aligned with rising consumer demand for more sustainable products, as well as pressure for innovation to address supply chain disruptions , which were intensified throughout the pandemic. Food & Agriculture: The Alt Protein Scene. Circular Economy: Shifting Upstream. Mobility: EVs Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Protein-rich foods are in particular demand, and with the meat industry responsible for more than 15% of greenhouse gas emissions, innovators are finding alternative ways to give consumers what they want. Innovative food saw very little M&A activity this half with only two deals in the growing field of alternative protein.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Protein-rich foods are in particular demand, and with the meat industry responsible for more than 15% of greenhouse gas emissions, innovators are finding alternative ways to give consumers what they want. Innovative food saw very little M&A activity this half with only two deals in the growing field of alternative protein.

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Business Green

MAY 21, 2020

Precisely how the agriculture sector delivers net zero emissions within 20 years, however, remains a major bone of contention in some critical areas, most obviously livestock and land use. That rotation of grass and livestock grazing, and the muck that they put back into the soil, is what sustains all biodiversity.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 22, 2020

Amidst the growing awareness about our planet’s climate crisis , there is now a burgeoning need for more sustainable food resources. As such, startup business AKUA is set to enhance the sustainability of the snack industry with its product line of kelp-based jerky and pasta.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 9, 2020

According to the Impossible Foods website, “Animal agriculture uses a tremendous amount of the world’s natural resources,” particularly land, water and energy. By comparison, creating a plant-based pork substitute is a more sustainable process.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 27, 2020

Healthy soil is critical for environmental sustainability, food security and the agricultural economy — even large food companies are starting to fold soil health efforts into their sustainability programs as they understand the impact it has on creating a viable, cost-effective supply chain. . percent year over year.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

In February last year, the head of a leading global meat industry body gave a “pep talk” to his colleagues at an Australian agriculture conference. Despite this tremendous growth, forecasts indicate that the world is still far from reaching “peak meat”.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 8, 2021

Overall, businesses creating all sorts of meat alternatives raised $3.1 Alternative meat, dairy and egg products make up more than half of that, at $2.1 “We want to offer people the best plant-based meat alternatives in terms of taste, texture, flavor and nutrition,” Pohl said.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 10, 2020

But even as these shifts expose inequities in the health and food systems, many experts hope that the current moment offers an opportunity to build a new, more sustainable food system. Mares Agriculture, immigration and Central American and Mexican farm workers may conjure ideas of the Mexico-U.S.

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Grist

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Despite major strides in renewable electricity and transportation, other significant sources of emissions like steel mills and industrial agriculture still have no clear paths to decarbonization. She said the startup aims to help feed the world’s growing population and tap into rising consumer demand for sustainably produced foods.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2021

Investment in the nascent field topped $350m - almost double the entire cumulative investment in the sector - and the number of alternative protein companies grew by 43 per cent to 76, a report by the sustainable proteins non-profit launched this week estimates.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Applying the latest technologies from biotech, tissue engineering, artificial intelligence, and food science, entrepreneurs are trying to create new animal-free products that are cheaper, healthier, tastier, and more sustainable. Even if they’re moderately successful, they’ll have an opportunity to capture a meaningful portion of the $1.5

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AFN Sustainable Protein

APRIL 2, 2024

“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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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 24, 2019

Recent headlines have triumphantly proclaimed that it is all but “inevitable” that plant-based meat will become cost-competitive with the products of industrial animal agriculture in short order. For instance, climate change is an inevitable outcome of human inaction, as it’s driven by a self-sustaining feedback loop.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 27, 2020

Healthy soil is critical for environmental sustainability, food security and the agricultural economy — even large food companies are starting to fold soil health efforts into their sustainability programs as they understand the impact it has on creating a viable, cost-effective supply chain. percent year over year.

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2020

The post-Covid-19 landscape has made 2020 a watershed year for the sustainable protein market: the sector has attracted double the investment of last year in just six months," says Jeremy Coller, the founder of the FAIRR initiative. FAIRR's Sustainable Proteins Engagement initiative first launched in 2016, and has since grown ten-fold.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 10, 2019

T he CEO of major meat alternative producer Monde Nissin, Henry Soesanto , also invested alongside Chinese agri-foodtech VC Bits x Bites, Tyson Ventures, and Manta Ray Ventures, a UK-based venture capital firm.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

MAY 31, 2017

When the lab-grown meat industry is fully mature, production facilities will look very similar to breweries, according to Michael Selden, cofounder of Finless Foods , an early-stage cultured fish startup. The cellular agriculture process contains two main phases and the second phase, according to Post, is labor intensive.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

MAY 31, 2017

When the lab-grown meat industry is fully mature, production facilities will look very similar to breweries, according to Michael Selden, cofounder of Finless Foods , an early-stage cultured fish startup. The cellular agriculture process contains two main phases and the second phase, according to Post, is labor intensive.

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