Business Green

JULY 16, 2020

IKEA is to begin offering a plant-based alternative to its popular meatballs across its UK stores from next month, in a bid to "make it as easy, accessible and affordable as possible to enable more sustainable choices" among its customers, the company announced yesterday.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 7, 2020

In fact, dollar sales of plant-based products are growing double digits across the country, and you can now find meat alternatives in Burger King, White Castle and Carl’s Jr, among other chains. Demand for meat is growing. So is the demand for sustainability. Per the USDA , per capita meat consumption in 2018 was 219.5

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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

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. Micro-nutrients will also provide fantastic health benefits as well as giving us a unique selling point," Keeble added. "We

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Greentown Labs

MAY 18, 2021

May 18, 2021 — Greentown Labs , the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America, and Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation (MCHC) have selected six startups for the KAITEKI Challenge that are innovating in the areas of alternative proteins, plastics, and packaging. Somerville, Mass.,

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2022

M&S, Volkswagen, Harrods, Superdrug and Sky among firms that have vowed to encourage staff to embrace more sustainable diets this January. It's a fun way to unite their teams in a shared experience while demonstrating their commitment to reducing their impact on the planet and improving the health and wellbeing of their employees.".

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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

MAY 17, 2022

A traffic light labelling system and making sustainable dishes the default menu option boosted their popularity, according to research. More people cutting back on meat would be good news for the planet , but humans have ingrained habits that are tricky to change. Other strategies might include: 1. A smorgasbord of options.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Answering other consumer demands for nutritional value and health foods, other startups in the innovative food category are manufacturing novel ingredients such as algae, novel supplements with custom nutritional profiles for women and children, and replacements for unhealthy and less popular ingredients such as sugar. Insect-based foods.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Answering other consumer demands for nutritional value and health foods, other startups in the innovative food category are manufacturing novel ingredients such as algae, novel supplements with custom nutritional profiles for women and children, and replacements for unhealthy and less popular ingredients such as sugar. Insect-based foods.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The plant-based food sector has been experiencing huge growth recently, with higher quality, more visible meat alternatives on offer and companies such as the plant-based substitute Beyond Meat becoming household names. That's around one portion of red meat and two of poultry - or one steak and two chicken sandwiches.

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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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GreenBiz

AUGUST 27, 2020

Basic human health principles tell us that we should diagnose before we treat and that we should test before we diagnose. . Today, by leveraging advancements in technology and new medical discoveries, we are able to treat and prevent diseases and enhance our quality of life, health and wellness. Poornima Param….

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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. They are used to having accurate data at their fingertips in order to facilitate decision-making, such as health data on their phone or watch.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2020

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

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Business Green

MAY 21, 2020

She further argues there is "a big scientific difference of opinion" on the issue, citing as an example work by Professor Michael Lee from Rothamsted Research, who has argued livestock is unfairly castigated by the anti-meat lobby for its greenhouse gas impact , and in fact plays a key role in maintaining soil health. "If

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AGreenLiving

JULY 10, 2020

But even as these shifts expose inequities in the health and food systems, many experts hope that the current moment offers an opportunity to build a new, more sustainable food system. “Plucked” makes it clear that food choices matter and show how consumers’ desire for meat, especially chicken, has affected human health.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Since then, meat industry players have shifted from emphasising the supposed sustainability of organically-produced meat to painting meat as an answer to ecological challenges like climate change. Meat companies themselves have also stepped up their climate-friendly advertising.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 27, 2020

Applying science and healthcare principles to soil wellness can help our planet Poornima Param… Thu, 08/27/2020 – 01:00 Basic human health principles tell us that we should diagnose before we treat and that we should test before we diagnose. Undoubtedly, soil is foundational to human life, yet we know very little about the soil itself.

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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

JULY 29, 2020

The post-Covid-19 landscape has made 2020 a watershed year for the sustainable protein market: the sector has attracted double the investment of last year in just six months," says Jeremy Coller, the founder of the FAIRR initiative. FAIRR's Sustainable Proteins Engagement initiative first launched in 2016, and has since grown ten-fold.

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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. Even if they’re moderately successful, they’ll have an opportunity to capture a meaningful portion of the $1.5

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 10, 2019

(If you include seafood in your definition of meat — jury out over here at AgFunder! T he CEO of major meat alternative producer Monde Nissin, Henry Soesanto , also invested alongside Chinese agri-foodtech VC Bits x Bites, Tyson Ventures, and Manta Ray Ventures, a UK-based venture capital firm.

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