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Reducing Food System Emissions, One Bite At A Time

Energy Innovation

Consumers should also consider the end-of-life consequences of waste: pollution, millennia-long breakdown times, and overflowing landfills (Qin and Horvath, 2022). Development of new plant proteins is one way to shift consumer diets to meat alternatives and meal substitutions (Costa et al., Srivastava, M.S.K., and Gupta, A.K.,

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A plant-based recovery? The Vegetarian Butcher's Hugo Verkuil on shifting diets during a pandemic

Business Green

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. This year there has been quite a big shift," Verkuil says. "On

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Why technology could make animals obsolete

AFN Sustainable Protein

This may not be the meat our fathers will eat, but with no antibiotics, chemicals, or ethical objections, it may be the meat our children will eat. The invention of the car came with urban sprawl, pollution, and over 1.25 Social: And let’s not forget the farmers in this equation. million fatalities each year.