AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Consumer demands are changing at a faster pace than ever as our understanding of nutrition evolves. . Protein-rich foods are in particular demand, and with the meat industry responsible for more than 15% of greenhouse gas emissions, innovators are finding alternative ways to give consumers what they want.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Consumer demands are changing at a faster pace than ever as our understanding of nutrition evolves. . Protein-rich foods are in particular demand, and with the meat industry responsible for more than 15% of greenhouse gas emissions, innovators are finding alternative ways to give consumers what they want.

Startups 52

Startups Innovation Demand Meat alternatives 52

Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

In an investor update yesterday, the company said it would test its new McPlant burger in key markets next year, as it looks to respond to growing customer demand for meat alternatives. He added that the pace of the roll out would be dictated by consumer demand.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2021

The climate impact of meat is considerable, accounting for around 14.5 Despite significant growth in investment, interest and innovation, however, alternative proteins still equate to less than one per cent of the size of the global meat market at present, according to the report.

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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. What's most interesting is that we can do this in a sustainable way, year-round, on demand, and with absolutely no chemicals.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Improved Nature , a Raleigh, NC-based protein and meat alternative innovator, has raised $3 million in a convertible note round led by Concentric Capital. The company’s products include the Improved Meat portfolio, that “mimics meat in all cooking methods and forms of distribution,” according to the website.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Improved Nature , a Raleigh, NC-based protein and meat alternative innovator, has raised $3 million in a convertible note round led by Concentric Capital. The company’s products include the Improved Meat portfolio, that “mimics meat in all cooking methods and forms of distribution,” according to the website.

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Meat alternatives Investment Technology Retail 52

Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Moreover, soaring demand for the likes of palm oil, soy, and meat continues to drive clearances of forests and natural ecosystems for plantations and livestock is also pushing more CO2 into the atmosphere. Fortunately the opportunities for change are growing rapidly.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2022

With the vast majority of caterers now offering at least one meat-free option, vegetarianism and veganism have become part of the norm, and made the all-important cross-over into mainstream dining. Sustainability works best when it's considered within the wider context of seasonality and local provenance.

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Meat alternatives Sustainability Ethics Demand 73

EDF + Business

JANUARY 7, 2020

The statistics on plant-based proteins are eye opening: Beyond Meat’s shares have more than tripled in value since its IPO in May, Impossible Foods can now be found in about 10,000 restaurants, and the market for meat substitutes is expected to reach $2.5 Per the USDA , per capita meat consumption in 2018 was 219.5

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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

“Impossible Foods’ retail debut will prompt a rapid acceleration in plant-based meat market growth. Plant-based meat has an enormous growth opportunity and currently commands less than 1% of the US meat market.

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Retail Meat alternatives Organic Demand 52

Business Green

MARCH 15, 2020

kilograms per week, EU citizens currently consume around double the global average amount of meat per week.

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Meat alternatives Agriculture Policy Demand 56

Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2020

Over the past decade, the world has woken up to the urgency of the climate crisis and consumers, governments, and investors are demanding that carbon intensive industries take action. This creates something of a perilous situation for companies that source and sell agricultural products, particularly beef, dairy, pork, and poultry.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 7, 2020

The statistics on plant-based proteins are eye opening: Beyond Meat’s shares have more than tripled in value since its IPO in May, Impossible Foods can now be found in about 10,000 restaurants, and the market for meat substitutes is expected to reach $2.5 Demand for meat is growing. So is the demand for sustainability.

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Sustainability Meat alternatives Demand Agriculture 40

Business Green

APRIL 8, 2021

When brands do eventually and inevitably pivot their business models and products to low-carbon, sustainable options, they need marketing teams to have nurtured and cultivated demand from consumers to receive these new products well.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Today’s meat industry is dominated by a few multinational giants, including JBS , Tyson Foods , Vion , and Danish Crown , with access to markets across the world. In step with rising global demand, meat production has more than quadrupled in the past sixty years. We all have to demand more than just words.

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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2020

For their part, officials have often been more than happy to accede to industry representatives demands for higher quotas, according to Professor Callum Roberts from York University. "In

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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. This isn't the first time that carbon footprint labelling has been in demand. A period of consolidation. So, will we see more companies putting carbon on the label?

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Carbon Meat alternatives Demand Retail 48

Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2020

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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Grist

OCTOBER 23, 2019

She said the startup aims to help feed the world’s growing population and tap into rising consumer demand for sustainably produced foods. Analysts say the market for plant-based protein and meat alternatives could balloon to $85 billion by 2030.

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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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Elemental Excelerator

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Between policy drivers, consumer demand and falling costs, there’s less risk around funding new climate technologies. This is aligned with rising consumer demand for more sustainable products, as well as pressure for innovation to address supply chain disruptions , which were intensified throughout the pandemic. Why is that?

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 24, 2019

If you’ve been following the ever-growing number of investments, acquisitions, and product launches in the still-nascent plant-based meat industry, it might seem as though the meat alternative sector is starting on its path to self-sustaining scale. Recent comments from Tyson provide some insight.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

So finding alternative food sources really is the most important ESG issue to tackle for food producers.". The profile and resource demand of producing plant-based meat alternatives is a fraction of traditional meat, Barrs flagged. Want to find out more about how the net zero transition will impact your business?

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2023

Low carbon hydrogen has increasingly been touted as a potential solution for decarbonising a raft of industries and processes, yet production capacity is far from scaling up to meet demand at present. Governments have been reluctant to date to encourage people to eat less meat or introduce policies such as meat taxes.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 22, 2020

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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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

The market demands them, but it shows little allegiance to their mode of production. In just 15 years and with 30,000 production plants, they could match the global demand for meat. . Whether or not you support animal agriculture, there are major scale-up challenges in meeting the protein demands of another 2.5

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 8, 2023

Demand for livestock products like beef and milk must be reduced by 10-25 percent to attain low-emissions or net-zero goals (Costa et al., But ultimately, consumer demand for livestock products must be curbed to lower overall emissions. Dietary shifts are another significant way consumers can limit their personal food emissions.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 8, 2021

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 Yet GFI has positioned the market for fake fish to become bigger, or at least more diverse, than those for beef and poultry alternatives.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

That burgeoning market trend was further underscored by yesterday's announcement that Nestlé is partnering with hospitality giant Whitbread to rollout plant-based 'Garden Gourmet' meat products such as sausages and burgers to 1,200 hotels and pubs nationwide.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 6, 2025

Disinformation Trend #1: Meat Is Natural One of the more popular PR messages regarding meat in 2024 was that animal products are healthier and more natural compared to ultra processed plant-based meat alternatives. This messaging is not new.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2020

The meat-free burger pioneer has now raised over $1.3bn over eight years, as it has carved out a leading position in the boomingmarket for plant-based meat alternatives. We have a long standing demand that public investments should benefit the future development of society, not counteract it. per cent year-on-year to 17.01

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