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Impossible Foods makes retail debut as Tim Hortons pulls Beyond Meat

AFN Sustainable Protein

The company’s retail launch is behind its main competitor Beyond Meat, which has been in retail stores for months with its burgers and sausages and launched a similar ground protein substitute for retail sale in June. . Impossible Foods’ retail debut will prompt a rapid acceleration in plant-based meat market growth.

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

GreenBiz

The startup space is buoyant with cash and targeting a blend of retail, direct-to-consumer and food service channels, playing with ingredients such as kelp, koji and mung beans. 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

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Reducing Food System Emissions, One Bite At A Time

Energy Innovation

Emissions from farm to table to landfill Emissions are generated at every stage of the food system, from the production of food on farms to transport and refrigeration to processing and packaging to consumer dietary choices and, ultimately, to food waste. Seventy percent of total food system emissions come from land-use change.

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Innovative Food: Startups Raise $206m to Meet Consumer Demand for Protein & Novel Ingredients

AFN Sustainable Protein

Though venture funding for consumer packaged goods generally is booming , with smaller companies gaining marketshare from the large food brands quickly, food and ingredients that truly buck against convention are still relatively slow to get investor attention compared to other categories of agrifood tech; the whole sector raised $4.4

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Innovative Food: Startups Raise $206m to Meet Consumer Demand for Protein & Novel Ingredients

AFN Sustainable Protein

Though venture funding for consumer packaged goods generally is booming , with smaller companies gaining marketshare from the large food brands quickly, food and ingredients that truly buck against convention are still relatively slow to get investor attention compared to other categories of agrifood tech; the whole sector raised $4.4

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

AFN Sustainable Protein

Joining SBP only two weeks ago, Karuna boasts 25 years of marketing expertise in consumer brands, retail, and innovation, and was the Lead Strategist behind Proctor & Gamble’s #LikeAGirl campaign, making her a hot commodity in the marketing world. And there’s the fact that only 5% of the US population is vegetarian and only 3% is vegan.

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

AGreenLiving

The startup space is buoyant with cash and targeting a blend of retail, direct-to-consumer and food service channels, playing with ingredients such as kelp, koji and mung beans. 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

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