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Resource efficiency and vertical farming: Solutions for a sustainable future?

Business Green

While two vertical farms have achieved substantial scale in the US, vertical farm products have not yet gained significant shelf space in the UK and Europe. All the nutrients are delivered in a water solution - requiring no soil. Insects are emerging as a potential solution to this problem.

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A plant-based recovery? The Vegetarian Butcher's Hugo Verkuil on shifting diets during a pandemic

Business Green

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. Having celebrated its 10 year anniversary this year, the company could be classified as something of a veteran in a young industry.

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Price and provenance: Does the UK have an appetite for eco-labels on food?

Business Green

Moreover, more than half of respondents to the Savanta ComRes survey claimed to be aware that the current food system had negative impacts on climate change, air, water and soil pollution, and that it can drive destructive land-use changes such as deforestation. It has been getting easier.

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Why technology could make animals obsolete

AFN Sustainable Protein

Environmental : Plant-based products are also going to have trouble escaping problems and criticism faced by conventional agriculture, which include monocropping, chemical and fertilizer use, and top-soil depletion. 6] Zlati Meyer, Missouri becomes first state to regulate use of the word ‘meat’ , USA Today, 2018 ( URL ).