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Climate-friendly diet study suggests three burgers a week guideline

Business Green

Food manufacturers including Greggs, KFC and Subway have brought to market vegan and vegetarian products as demand has grown for meat alternatives, but the guidelines proposed by Greenpeace would suggest an order of magnitude expansion in flexitarian and plant-based diets.

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Carbon-negative snack company AKUA offers kelp jerky and pasta

AGreenLiving

In recent years, seaweed has been quite a catch for health-conscious consumers, in turn, making kelp, a brown macroalgae, one of the more in-demand types of seaweed offerings. That made me think, ‘Wow, what if we could create a line of meat alternative products from one of the most sustainable sources of food on the planet?’

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The resurgence of product CO2 labelling

Business Green

Late last year, Quorn, the world's biggest meat alternative brand, started putting 'farm to shop' carbon footprint data on packs of its top selling 30 products. This isn't the first time that carbon footprint labelling has been in demand. A period of consolidation. So, will we see more companies putting carbon on the label?

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Investigation: How the Meat Industry is Climate-Washing its Polluting Business Model

DeSmogBlog

DeSmog conducted a five-month investigation into the meat industry’s PR and lobbying, reviewing hundreds of documents and statements by companies and trade associations. Today’s meat industry is dominated by a few multinational giants, including JBS , Tyson Foods , Vion , and Danish Crown , with access to markets across the world.