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Who’s bringing China its bacon now that it’s running low?

AFN Sustainable Protein

“We see a good opportunity for Thailand to ship more pork and gain more market share in other countries,” Pimchanok Vonkorpon, the Commerce Ministry’s director-general of trade policy and strategy, told Bloomberg in an interview. Vonkorpon added it would take some time for Thai producers to boost supply for exports.

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

Business Green

Alexander Popp, leader of the land use management group at PIK and a co-author of the new study, said biotechnologies such as microbial meat production therefore needed to be fuelled by green energy in order to ensure the climate impacts are kept to a minimum. "A said Popp.

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Should we genetically edit the food we eat? Two experts offer their thoughts

Business Green

We also work to improve plant biotechnologies and have contributed to proof-of-concept studies demonstrating that genome editing can be used to develop useful traits in barley, brassica and potatoes by deleting just a few letters of DNA. Smallholder farmers, who generally do not grow proprietary seeds, produce more than half of global food.

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The 2020 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

Six years later, he is CEO of Clara Foods, a biotech food company that uses fermentation to create egg proteins without involving chickens. That’s when the idea for Mi Terro, his social impact biotechnology company focused on turning milk waste into fibers that can be used in apparel and packaging, started to bubble up. .