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'Urgent priority': Can 2021 usher in a sustainable food system transformation?

Business Green

Nobody wants the food they consume to have destroyed forests, habitats, and wildlife on its way to their plate, and yet the system that underpins our global food supplies today continues to be one of the biggest drivers of biodiversity loss and climate change worldwide. These three levers are in part interdependent," it adds.

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Can Bumble Bee and Nestlé hook the world on fishless fish?

GreenBiz

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 Yet GFI has positioned the market for fake fish to become bigger, or at least more diverse, than those for beef and poultry alternatives.

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Study: Replacing fifth of beef in diets with fungi-based 'meat' could halve deforestation

Business Green

Climate impact of beef worldwide is far higher than that of microbial-meat alternatives, according to a new study from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

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Price and provenance: Does the UK have an appetite for eco-labels on food?

Business Green

That burgeoning market trend was further underscored by yesterday's announcement that Nestlé is partnering with hospitality giant Whitbread to rollout plant-based 'Garden Gourmet' meat products such as sausages and burgers to 1,200 hotels and pubs nationwide.

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Can Bumble Bee and Nestlé hook the world on fishless fish?

AGreenLiving

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 Yet GFI has positioned the market for fake fish to become bigger, or at least more diverse, than those for beef and poultry alternatives.

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

Business Green

The climate impact of meat is considerable, accounting for around 14.5 The report also highlights seafood as the next frontier for alternative proteins, amid growing concern over severely over-fished oceans and dwindling marine biodiversity. per cent of total greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, according to some estimates.

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Can animal-based agriculture ever be truly sustainable?

Business Green

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.