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What do Americans think about fake meat products?

AGreenLiving

Report after report doles out alarming numbers regarding pollution related to the practice. The rise of fake meat With all of this in mind, it’s no wonder that food scientists have been investing copious research and development time, money and energy into finding meat alternatives. Why are people trying fake meat?

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Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation and Greentown Labs Announce the KAITEKI Challenge Startup Participants

Greentown Labs

Impactful Health R&D (Nova Scotia, Canada) is developing sustainable active packaging to prolong the shelf life of fresh fish. This approach can increase return on investment for the entire value chain, while reducing organic waste and plastics pollution.

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

DeSmogBlog

Campaigns run by the AAA and Danish Crown are just two examples of the way in which the meat industry is increasingly turning to a playbook long used by other polluting sectors such as Big Oil and pesticide manufacturers , with the campaigns ultimately causing “confusion and delay,” NYU’s Jacquet argues. Meat Industry Playbook.

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Price and provenance: Does the UK have an appetite for eco-labels on food?

Business Green

Whether driven by animal welfare, health, or environmental concerns - or a combination of all three - more and more people are either becoming vegan and vegetarian or reducing their meat consumption and eating greater proportions of plant-based food. There can be little doubt diets are steadily changing in the UK.

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

Business Green

The plant-based meat and dairy market is expected to balloon over the years to come, as consumers increasingly seek to reduce the environmental impact of their diet while tapping the health benefits related to reducing meat consumption.

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SDG14: How to develop a cleaner ocean strategy

Business Green

After all, it is the private sector that is both the primary cause of many of the pollution pressures placed on life under water and one of the main beneficiaries of the many economic benefits that flow from marine resources. Marine scientist Marcus Eriksen says such an attitude is also urgently needed in the context of plastic pollution.