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The Growing Appetite for Meat Alternatives in China

AFN Sustainable Protein

China’s declaration is not only significant in the global fight against climate change, it also speaks to the government’s commitment to curtail a looming health crisis. China now leads the world in obese children, and the World Health Organization has reported that one in three diabetes diagnoses is in China.

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The Growing Appetite for Meat Alternatives in China

AFN Sustainable Protein

China’s declaration is not only significant in the global fight against climate change, it also speaks to the government’s commitment to curtail a looming health crisis. China now leads the world in obese children, and the World Health Organization has reported that one in three diabetes diagnoses is in China.

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'Investors are watching closely': How Covid-19 is accelerating the plant based 'meat' trend

Business Green

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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Plant-based foods are booming, but we need sustainable meat, too.

EDF + Business

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. Consumer demand for sustainably grown food is clearly on the rise, but at the same time, so is the demand for meat.

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

AFN Sustainable Protein

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

AFN Sustainable Protein

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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SDG14: How to develop a cleaner ocean strategy

Business Green

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.