Post: Green Queen's resident news reporter. Originally from India, he worked as a vegan food writer and editor in London, and is now travelling and reporting from across Asia.
Infinite Roots and the Hamburg University of Technology have received a €2.6M grant from the German government to develop tech that transforms whey into a feedstock to grow mycelium.
Many have drawn parallels between alternative proteins and electric vehicles, but their disruption of conventional industries is far from the same. So how can the former learn from the latter?
French dairy giant Danone is part of a consortium that aims to scale up precision fermentation via a new open platform – in an interview, the company explains its thinking behind the move.
The US Department of Agriculture has just updated its supplemental food as medicine programme for women and children, providing access to more produce and plant-based dairy products to nearly seven million low-income Americans.
During Starbucks’ annual shareholder meeting this month, 94.7% voted against PETA’s proposal to drop the extra charge for plant-based milk in the US, with the board of directors stating that prices are dictated by country-specific market conditions.
New York-based Pureture has teamed up with South Korean food giant Namyang Dairy Products to create products using the biotech startup’s vegan casein ahead of an upcoming $12M seed funding round.
New data reveals that meat alternatives were among Britain’s fastest-falling grocery categories this year, with the cost-of-living crisis squeezing consumer budgets. The sales decline for plant-based dairy leader Alpro, meanwhile, reflected the overall drop in volume for the UK milk market, which was masked by inflation-induced price hikes.
A British High Court judge has sided with Oatly in a court case filed by Dairy UK, which objected to the use of the word ‘milk’ in its ‘Post-Milk Generation’ slogan on its product packaging and merchandise (citing consumer confusion), in what is a rare labelling win for a vegan brand.
Analysis by alternative protein think tank the Good Food Institute (GFI) Europe reveals how value-added tax (VAT) on plant-based milk alternatives creates a disparity with their conventional counterparts. But there are calls to level the playing field.
In the EU and the US, livestock farming receives about 1,000 times more funding than plant-based and cultivated meat, with the “gigantic” power of the animal agriculture industry blocking the development of sustainable proteins, finds a new study. The money meat producers spend on lobbying governments is 190 times higher than alt-meat in the US, and three times as high in the EU.
