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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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Why technology could make animals obsolete

AFN Sustainable Protein

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

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

AFN Sustainable Protein

Vinocur (formerly VP R&D at computational biology company Evogene ), and Dafna Gabbay (who previously founded a startup making copper-based antimicrobials), Finally Foods leverages AI-powered technology from Evogene it claims will speed up and optimize the process of developing plants expressing high levels of casein proteins.

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