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A plant-based recovery? The Vegetarian Butcher's Hugo Verkuil on shifting diets during a pandemic

Business Green

Unilever recently set out its plan to significantly expand its plant-based range, with a view to securing €1bn in annual sales from alternative meat and dairy products within the next seven years. Products are just tastier now than ever before, thanks to leaps in food technology innovation, he says.

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

AFN Sustainable Protein

Finally Foods —an Israeli molecular farming startup producing dairy proteins in potatoes—has emerged from stealth with pre-seed funding from The Kitchen FoodTech Hub by Strauss Group and the Israeli Innovation Authority. Founded by Dr. Basia J.

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Why technology could make animals obsolete

AFN Sustainable Protein

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. Wherever we look, humans have consistently built technologies that surpass their animal predecessors.