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In meat-loving South Africa, climate concerns whet appetite for veggie burgers

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Reuters – In South Africa, a country where all-day barbecuing is a national pastime, plant-based substitutes are making surprising inroads despite a deep cultural love of meat and hostility from the regulator. That could be heartening for climate scientists, who say shifting diets from emissions-heavy meat and dairy toward more plant-based foods is vital to
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Fake meat challenges name ban in Paris restaurant debut

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The arrival of veggie meat dishes on Parisian steakhouse menus with names such as “tenderloin” and “flank” poses a challenge to French government efforts to ban meat names for plant-based products. The global market for plant-based meat-like food has been booming, attracting major investment from global agri-food groups that hope to capitalize on a trend
The United Nations’ General Assembly Hall in Manhattan. (BWZenith/iStock/Getty Images)
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Food, farming, forestry must be transformed to curb global warming, UN says

Earlier draft of panel report called for reduced intake of meat

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Reuters — Protecting forests, changing diets, and altering farming methods could contribute around a quarter of the greenhouse gas cuts needed to avert the worst impacts of climate change, according to the United Nations’ climate panel. But the changes are unlikely to happen unless governments act to spur them along, the report from the Intergovernmental
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Impossible Foods sues startup Motif Foodworks over meatless burger patent

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Reuters – Meatless burger maker Impossible Foods is suing competitor Motif Foodworks, accusing the startup of copying its technology for imitating the taste of real meat. The U.S. lawsuit, filed in Delaware Federal Court, said Motif, a spinoff of biotech company Ginkgo Bioworks infringes an Impossible Foods patent by using the protein molecule heme in
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Beyond Meat shares fall on lower-than-expected revenue forecasts

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Reuters – Beyond Meat forecast annual revenue below estimates February 24, as the plant-based business pioneer wrestles with labour and supply chain disruptions and faces stiff competition in the United States. The plant-based meat space has become crowded in recent years with more traditional names, including Tyson Foods and Kellogg entering the fray and offering
Letters, Op/Ed

Letters: Anti-meat rhetoric too simplistic

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I read with dismay the recent article, “Meat and dairy gobble up subsidies worldwide,” in your op-ed section, January 20, 2022. Mr. Springmann states there that agricultural subsidies prop up a food system that is neither healthy nor sustainable referring specifically to those that go to the meat and dairy production sector. He advocates shifting
A hamburger made with a Mosa Meat patty.
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Comment: Why the cultured meat industry needs its own Elon Musk

Lab-grown meat looks like it could change the way animal protein is supplied to consumers

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Leonardo DiCaprio has just used his A-list magic powers yet again by investing in two American cultured meat startups, Aleph Farms and Mosa Meat, which use animal cells. This is the same actor who invested in a vegetable protein company even before the plant-based phenomenon was a thing. That company was Beyond Meat, now worth
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Beyond Meat brings back alt-chicken offering

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Beyond Meat has brought back a chicken offering to its product portfolio with the launch of plant-based chicken tenders. The faux-meat maker looks to capitalize on booming demand for meat alternatives amid a shift towards healthy eating in the pandemic. The company is launching the product in around 400 U.S. restaurants, more than two years
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Finnish startup eyes meatless schnitzel with new lab-made protein

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A Finnish tech startup hopes to produce protein out of thin air and not much more, creating a plant-based product it can put into healthy drinks and yogurts or even turn into a meatless schnitzel, the company said. Solar Foods has received nearly 25 million euros (US$30 million) in government and private funding to commercialize
Many consumers are revisiting their relationship with animal proteins, both at the meat counter and in the dairy products section.
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Comment: Plant based still a thing despite COVID-19

Sales are still growing quickly in this relatively new market space

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Think plant protein is just a passing fad? Think again. People are buying. Despite the pandemic and the chaos surrounding containment and vaccination rules, consumers are quietly enjoying the products made from plant proteins and milk alternatives. According to recent data offered by Nielsen, since the start of 2020 sales of vegetable protein products have

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