Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

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.

Meat alternatives 99

Meat alternatives Retail Sustainability South America 99

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.

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Meat alternatives Demand Health Europe 91

Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

"Our current food system is a double edged sword - shaped by decades of the 'cheaper food' paradigm, aimed at producing more food, quickly and cheaply without taking into account the hidden costs to biodiversity and its life-supporting services - and to our own health," argues Susan Gardner, director of UNEP's ecosystems division.

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Sustainability Biodiversity Meat alternatives Agriculture 97

Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2020

BusinessGreen takes a look at what businesses in a range of industries - from fishing to financial services - can do to develop an effective SDG14 strategy and better support the health of the world's marine ecosystems. Shift perspective on the seas. As fish stocks have plummeted, so has the profitability of the commercial fishing industry.

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2020

Back in Europe, Unilever has built a $94m innovation centre in the Netherlands. In total, the research finds, seven of these 15 retailers now sell, or plan to sell, plant-based meat alternatives. Housing 500 employees, it focuses on plant-based innovations for brands like Hellman's and Knorr.

Retail 78

Retail Meat alternatives Innovation Packaging 78

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.

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Carbon-negative Meat alternatives Innovation Biotech 85

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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