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

GreenBiz

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 Yet GFI has positioned the market for fake fish to become bigger, or at least more diverse, than those for beef and poultry alternatives.

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Reducing Food System Emissions, One Bite At A Time

Energy Innovation

For instance, use of plastic packaging has increased sharply in recent decades, from 2 million tons in 1950 to 381 million tons in 2015. Demand for livestock products like beef and milk must be reduced by 10-25 percent to attain low-emissions or net-zero goals (Costa et al., Environmental impacts of plastic packaging of food products.

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

Grist

The New York City startup will likewise provide “green bubbles” for sodas and use carbon to make plastic bottles. She said the startup aims to help feed the world’s growing population and tap into rising consumer demand for sustainably produced foods. Beverages are just the beginning.

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

AGreenLiving

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 Yet GFI has positioned the market for fake fish to become bigger, or at least more diverse, than those for beef and poultry alternatives.

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SDG14: How to develop a cleaner ocean strategy

Business Green

For their part, officials have often been more than happy to accede to industry representatives demands for higher quotas, according to Professor Callum Roberts from York University. "In Marine scientist Marcus Eriksen says such an attitude is also urgently needed in the context of plastic pollution.

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Why technology could make animals obsolete

AFN Sustainable Protein

And despite its many shortcomings, plastic continues to take market share from leather. The market demands them, but it shows little allegiance to their mode of production. In just 15 years and with 30,000 production plants, they could match the global demand for meat. . Food may be next. And switch fast.