Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2021

Liverpool Football Club has teamed up with Quorn to serve up meat-free pies at for fans at its Anfield homeground in a bid to encourage more climate-friendly dietary choices, the meat-alternative food brand announced yesterday. Quorn's marketing director, Gill Riley, called on Liverpool fans to get behind the new campaign.

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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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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. Micro-nutrients will also provide fantastic health benefits as well as giving us a unique selling point," Keeble added. "We

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Eco-Business

APRIL 21, 2022

The rise of alternative proteins in India could come with an array of health, environmental and social benefits. But this transition must happen in a manner that is equitable and just, writes Dr Preethi Jain.

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2022

It's a fun way to unite their teams in a shared experience while demonstrating their commitment to reducing their impact on the planet and improving the health and wellbeing of their employees.". "It's great to have so many businesses putting their values into action by taking part in Veganuary's workplace challenge," Vernelli said.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

The UN describes the health and environmental implications of consuming animal products as “complex” and works to ensure that low-income groups have access to animal-based foods but argues that other, wealthier populations need to eat less of them. Meat producers’ fears about the rise of alternatives is understandable.

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Business Green

JULY 25, 2021

However, for a report claiming to be against ultra-processed foods and in favour of biodiversity, soil health and food security, they've failed us in their solution for national meat reduction. Many have waited for years, decades even, for a report of this kind to address the challenges facing our food system.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Answering other consumer demands for nutritional value and health foods, other startups in the innovative food category are manufacturing novel ingredients such as algae, novel supplements with custom nutritional profiles for women and children, and replacements for unhealthy and less popular ingredients such as sugar. Insect-based foods.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Answering other consumer demands for nutritional value and health foods, other startups in the innovative food category are manufacturing novel ingredients such as algae, novel supplements with custom nutritional profiles for women and children, and replacements for unhealthy and less popular ingredients such as sugar. Insect-based foods.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 7, 2020

In fact, dollar sales of plant-based products are growing double digits across the country, and you can now find meat alternatives in Burger King, White Castle and Carl’s Jr, among other chains. For the vast majority of consumers, increasing plant-based protein consumption is not about the rejection of traditional animal protein.

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Greentown Labs

MAY 18, 2021

Impactful Health R&D (Nova Scotia, Canada) is developing sustainable active packaging to prolong the shelf life of fresh fish. STARFIELD (Shenzhen, China) uses innovative technology to create plant-based meat alternatives that are delicious, affordable, and healthy.

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2020

Today, it includes 88 investors managing over $13 trillion in assets, and aims to encourage 15 food retailers and ten food manufacturers - including Nestle, M&S, Sainsbury's, Carrefour, Costco, Amazon and Walmart - to diversify their protein sources away from a reliance on intensively farmed meat.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The rise of fake meat With all of this in mind, it’s no wonder that food scientists have been investing copious research and development time, money and energy into finding meat alternatives. Some have already been around for decades, while new alternatives are consistently hitting the market.

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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

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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EDF + Business

JANUARY 7, 2020

In fact, dollar sales of plant-based products are growing double digits across the country, and you can now find meat alternatives in Burger King, White Castle and Carl’s Jr, among other chains. For the vast majority of consumers, increasing plant-based protein consumption is not about the rejection of traditional animal protein.

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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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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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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.

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Business Green

MAY 17, 2022

In both cafeterias and in online surveys, we have found when people are offered a greater proportion of meat-free meals (from one in four, to two or even three in four), the number of people opting for the vegetarian choice can increase substantially. Making plant-based options more prominent elsewhere.

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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. They are used to having accurate data at their fingertips in order to facilitate decision-making, such as health data on their phone or watch.

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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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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The plant-based food sector has been experiencing huge growth recently, with higher quality, more visible meat alternatives on offer and companies such as the plant-based substitute Beyond Meat becoming household names. That's around one portion of red meat and two of poultry - or one steak and two chicken sandwiches.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

We anticipate that many consumers will shift to animal-free food products if those products begin to meet or exceed their animal-based alternatives on key areas like cost, taste, functionality, convenience, and health. Particularly among millennials, Gen Z, and parents. Questions or comments, email us at funds@agfunder.com.

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Business Green

MAY 21, 2020

She further argues there is "a big scientific difference of opinion" on the issue, citing as an example work by Professor Michael Lee from Rothamsted Research, who has argued livestock is unfairly castigated by the anti-meat lobby for its greenhouse gas impact , and in fact plays a key role in maintaining soil health. "If

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 27, 2020

Applying science and healthcare principles to soil wellness can help our planet Poornima Param… Thu, 08/27/2020 – 01:00 Basic human health principles tell us that we should diagnose before we treat and that we should test before we diagnose. Undoubtedly, soil is foundational to human life, yet we know very little about the soil itself.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Whether driven by animal welfare, health, or environmental concerns - or a combination of all three - more and more people are either becoming vegan and vegetarian or reducing their meat consumption and eating greater proportions of plant-based food. There can be little doubt diets are steadily changing in the UK.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 10, 2020

But even as these shifts expose inequities in the health and food systems, many experts hope that the current moment offers an opportunity to build a new, more sustainable food system. “Plucked” makes it clear that food choices matter and show how consumers’ desire for meat, especially chicken, has affected human health.

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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. Tesla yesterday issued a statement confirming it has decided to temporarily suspend production at its factory in Fremont, California, from March 23.

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CleanTechnica

MARCH 11, 2020

It was 3 something in the morning and I couldn’t sleep, so I scrolled through Twitter and saw this tweet about 3D-printed meat. Did you know that there is a 3D printed steak that you can eat?

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