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She sells sea cells: Frozen food giant explores plans to bring cell-cultured seafood to European market

Business Green

Nomad Foods has partnered with BlueNalu to explore bringing the sustainable seafood products to Europe. The partnership aims to explore the potential role of lab-grown products in helping meet demand for sustainable seafood products and safeguard the availability of seafood amid continued overfishing.

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Asia is too often overlooked in the alt protein conversation. It’s time to change that

AFN Sustainable Protein

It’s true that plant-based meat sales are flat in the US, UK and some of Europe. In the rest of the world (ROW), Asia particularly, it’s an entirely different story. This is not the case in Asia. The future is Asia. ” Well, Asia is where the action is, folks. What the headlines (don’t) say.

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DeSmog Launches Industrial Aquaculture Project

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At least the seafood farming (or ‘aquaculture’) industry would have you see it that way. They are harvested by the tonne off the coast of West Africa and pulverized into fishmeal and fish oil that’s exported to Europe and Asia. Right now the market for farmed fish like salmon is booming.

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Covid-19 and meat plants in Asia: A contrast in fortunes to the United States?

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Unlike in the United States and some parts of Europe, no major coronavirus outbreaks have been reported so far in Asia’s meat and seafood industry. Some companies believe early preventive measures played a role.

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Plant-based potential: Report warns UK risks missing out on alternative protein boom

Business Green

The report, titled Putting British success on the menu , details how retail sales of plant-based meat in western Europe grew by almost 20 per cent in 2021 with sales of vegetable and plant-based alternatives equivalent to four per cent of total meat sales in 2021.

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How Forsea is avoiding the “scaffolding challenge” of cultivated meat and seafood

AFN Sustainable Protein

Global demand for aquatic foods — that’s fish and seafood — is expected to double by 2050, according to estimates that base the rise mostly on population growth. Forsea claims that eels have become an endangered species, after demand for the delicacy surged in Asia and Europe in particular. Saving the eel.

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2022’s 5 biggest foodtech deals

AFN Sustainable Protein

billion and were split across North America, Asia and Oceana. As opportunities for LanzaTech’s technologies emerge in Europe and North America, Brookfield will reportedly be financing them moving forward. The California-based startup also acquired Cultured Decadence , a seed-stage cultivated seafood startup from Wisconsin.