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The Growing Appetite for Meat Alternatives in China

AFN Sustainable Protein

China now leads the world in obese children, and the World Health Organization has reported that one in three diabetes diagnoses is in China. Could innovations in plant-based alternatives, cultured meat, and edible insects play a part in China’s food future? So what is the state of play in China’s diet transition?

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The Growing Appetite for Meat Alternatives in China

AFN Sustainable Protein

China now leads the world in obese children, and the World Health Organization has reported that one in three diabetes diagnoses is in China. Could innovations in plant-based alternatives, cultured meat, and edible insects play a part in China’s food future? So what is the state of play in China’s diet transition?

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Tesco targets major plant-based meat sales growth in UK first

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Tesco is plotting a major increase in plant-based meat products in its stores over the coming years in order to capitalise on the growing trend towards vegan, vegetarian and flexitarian diets, as it today became the first UK retailer to set a sales target for meat alternatives.

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

GreenBiz

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

Greentown Labs

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Carbon-negative snack company AKUA offers kelp jerky and pasta

AGreenLiving

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?’ In fact, today, Kelp Jerky is the world’s first meat alternative snack made from ocean-farmed seagreens and the only high-protein, soy-free vegan jerky in the market,” explained Myers.

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This volcanic microbe startup is taking on Beyond Meat and Impossible in plant-based race

AFN Sustainable Protein

After a trip to Yellowstone, SBP observed how certain extremophile organisms can survive in the National Park’s volcanic streams sparking a quest to create edible proteins with nutritional value from these hearty microbes. And there’s the fact that only 5% of the US population is vegetarian and only 3% is vegan.