Business Green

APRIL 8, 2021

Targeting individual consumer behaviours, or making greener brands aspirational, can create compelling campaigns that drive revenue and trigger sustainable behaviour change, writes Dentsu International's Anna Lungley. Creating a 'pull' for a more sustainable product is critical. Many organisations struggle to put this into practice.

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2021

Unilever has announced a partnership with Scottish food tech start-up Enough in a bid to expand its range of plant-based food products, with the consumer goods giant eyeing growing demand for meat alternatives over the coming decades.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Consumer demands are changing at a faster pace than ever as our understanding of nutrition evolves. . Protein-rich foods are in particular demand, and with the meat industry responsible for more than 15% of greenhouse gas emissions, innovators are finding alternative ways to give consumers what they want.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Consumer demands are changing at a faster pace than ever as our understanding of nutrition evolves. . Protein-rich foods are in particular demand, and with the meat industry responsible for more than 15% of greenhouse gas emissions, innovators are finding alternative ways to give consumers what they want.

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Startups Innovation Demand Meat alternatives 52

Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2022

As the hospitality industry continues to pursue an eco-friendlier future, Veganuary presents the ideal opportunity to put sustainability at the forefront of the agenda for 2022 and beyond. The ethical and sustainable principles of Veganuary are valuable and viable causes that food businesses should seek to uphold on a year-round basis.

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Meat alternatives Sustainability Ethics Demand 73

Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The crops will allow Heck Foods to "continue creating unique and interesting flavours" for its recently-launched plant-based meat-alternative range, which includes vegan sausages and burgers, the company said. What's most interesting is that we can do this in a sustainable way, year-round, on demand, and with absolutely no chemicals.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2022

Plant-based 'meats' tend to have a far smaller impact on both the climate and the environment than animal products, while typically proving more nutritious, according to the findings of a major first-of-its-kind study that assessed tens of thousands of processed food products on sale in the UK and Ireland.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2020

kilograms per week, EU citizens currently consume around double the global average amount of meat per week. Greenpeace EU agriculture and forest campaigner Sini Eräjää said: "The science is overwhelming at this stage - overconsumption of meat and dairy is wrecking forests, crushing nature and heating the planet.

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Meat alternatives Agriculture Policy Demand 56

AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

“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.

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Elemental Excelerator

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Between policy drivers, consumer demand and falling costs, there’s less risk around funding new climate technologies. This is aligned with rising consumer demand for more sustainable products, as well as pressure for innovation to address supply chain disruptions , which were intensified throughout the pandemic. Why is that?

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 22, 2020

Amidst the growing awareness about our planet’s climate crisis , there is now a burgeoning need for more sustainable food resources. 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.

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Business Green

APRIL 23, 2020

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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Carbon Meat alternatives Demand Retail 48

Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Business interest in plant-based food is growing, but many consumers are still in the dark over the environmental sustainability of their eating habits. Fortunately, fresh research published today by WWF UK suggests the vast majority of British people do want to eat healthier, more environmentally sustainable food.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2020

A major new report from the Environmental Defense Fund asks some challenging questions about the limited progress the agricultural sector has made in tackling its out-sized climate and biodiversity impacts - and offers some invaluable guidance on how up its sustainability efforts. The EDF guide is divided into two parts.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2020

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. Three years ago, people who ate plant-based meat were the exception.

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Carbon-negative Meat alternatives Innovation Biotech 85

AGreenLiving

JUNE 8, 2021

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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Grist

OCTOBER 23, 2019

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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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

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.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2021

Investment in the nascent field topped $350m - almost double the entire cumulative investment in the sector - and the number of alternative protein companies grew by 43 per cent to 76, a report by the sustainable proteins non-profit launched this week estimates. The climate impact of meat is considerable, accounting for around 14.5

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 24, 2019

Recent headlines have triumphantly proclaimed that it is all but “inevitable” that plant-based meat will become cost-competitive with the products of industrial animal agriculture in short order. For instance, climate change is an inevitable outcome of human inaction, as it’s driven by a self-sustaining feedback loop.

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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2020

As the UN reflected in its most recent progress report , "increased efforts and interventions are needed to conserve and sustainably use ocean resources at all levels." Similarly, the fledgling 'fake meat' alternative protein sector - as well as the fast expandingf aquaculture industry - could yet play a crucial role in curbing over-fishing.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

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. The market demands them, but it shows little allegiance to their mode of production. And switch fast.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Improved Nature , a Raleigh, NC-based protein and meat alternative innovator, has raised $3 million in a convertible note round led by Concentric Capital. The company’s products include the Improved Meat portfolio, that “mimics meat in all cooking methods and forms of distribution,” according to the website.

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Meat alternatives Investment Retail Technology 52

AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Improved Nature , a Raleigh, NC-based protein and meat alternative innovator, has raised $3 million in a convertible note round led by Concentric Capital. The company’s products include the Improved Meat portfolio, that “mimics meat in all cooking methods and forms of distribution,” according to the website.

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