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The Growing Appetite for Meat Alternatives in China

AFN Sustainable Protein

Editor’s Note: Bits x Bites is China’s first accelerator VC to invest in early-stage food tech startups. Here the Bits x Bites team breaks down key trends and milestone announcements that have been happening in China—the world’s biggest market for meat. . Demand growth in beef has dropped from 10% in 2000 to under 2% in 2017.

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The Growing Appetite for Meat Alternatives in China

AFN Sustainable Protein

Editor’s Note: Bits x Bites is China’s first accelerator VC to invest in early-stage food tech startups. Here the Bits x Bites team breaks down key trends and milestone announcements that have been happening in China—the world’s biggest market for meat. . Demand growth in beef has dropped from 10% in 2000 to under 2% in 2017.

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Can Bumble Bee and Nestlé hook the world on fishless fish?

GreenBiz

The startup space is buoyant with cash and targeting a blend of retail, direct-to-consumer and food service channels, playing with ingredients such as kelp, koji and mung beans. Overall, businesses creating all sorts of meat alternatives raised $3.1 Alternative meat, dairy and egg products make up more than half of that, at $2.1

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Impossible Foods makes retail debut as Tim Hortons pulls Beyond Meat

AFN Sustainable Protein

“Impossible Foods’ retail debut will prompt a rapid acceleration in plant-based meat market growth. Plant-based meat has an enormous growth opportunity and currently commands less than 1% of the US meat market. The funding brings the startup’s funding to $50 million. Find out more in a brief from Joe here.).

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

Grist

Now private investors are pouring money into startups and moonshot projects — in the hope of making money while also helping to curb rising global temperatures. Organizers said the turnout was surprising; a few years ago, proponents were mostly talking among themselves. General Assembly in New York City.

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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. As such, startup business AKUA is set to enhance the sustainability of the snack industry with its product line of kelp-based jerky and pasta. “I

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Can Bumble Bee and Nestlé hook the world on fishless fish?

AGreenLiving

The startup space is buoyant with cash and targeting a blend of retail, direct-to-consumer and food service channels, playing with ingredients such as kelp, koji and mung beans. Overall, businesses creating all sorts of meat alternatives raised $3.1 Alternative meat, dairy and egg products make up more than half of that, at $2.1

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