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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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Reducing Food System Emissions, One Bite At A Time

Energy Innovation

Most of the low-emissions interventions analyzed (70 percent) utilize existing know-how and technologies: reducing deforestation, better managing manure, improving feed and breeding (which can reduce methane emissions from livestock), reducing nitrogen fertilizer overuse and runoff, and adopting renewable energy and energy efficiency.

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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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Investors are betting billions on carbontech. Will it pay off?

Grist

She said the startup aims to help feed the world’s growing population and tap into rising consumer demand for sustainably produced foods. Analysts say the market for plant-based protein and meat alternatives could balloon to $85 billion by 2030.

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

DeSmogBlog

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. In step with rising global demand, meat production has more than quadrupled in the past sixty years. We all have to demand more than just words.

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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 Despite significant growth in investment, interest and innovation, however, alternative proteins still equate to less than one per cent of the size of the global meat market at present, according to the report.

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Can animal-based agriculture ever be truly sustainable?

Business Green

Over the past decade, the world has woken up to the urgency of the climate crisis and consumers, governments, and investors are demanding that carbon intensive industries take action. This creates something of a perilous situation for companies that source and sell agricultural products, particularly beef, dairy, pork, and poultry.