American grocery store shoppers became accustomed to limits on certain household staples during the first half of 2020. The quest for toilet paper, ground beef and hand sanitizer sparked panic buying and supermarket aisle scuffles, while overzealous bread bakers desperately searched for flour and a drop in carbon dioxide supply threatened the soda industry.

Ignore the naysayers. For anyone who cares about the footprint of industrial animal agriculture, we should applaud KFC’s plans

U.S retailer Target's vegan offering has been branded a 'sign of major progress' by animal advocates. Target announced its Good and Gather line - which is not vegan but includes a number of vegan items - in 2019. Yesterday, the retail giant announced it was expanding the label with new plant-based protein products including beef-style patties and crispy chickenless tenders among others.

And we are back to this debate. I know this is a touchy subject, but I really wanted to address it. Two days ago I listened to a podcast about veganism. It was all about how vegans should stick to the diet, and if once in a while they ate oysters or tuna they had it all wrong and had to ethical commitment.

Shifting to plant protein foods—like lentils, beans, and nuts—can offset greenhouse gas emissions in the process, according to a new study in the journal Nature Sustainability.

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Fancy a burger made from meat grown in a laboratory? Lab-burgers are coming to a supermarket or restaurant near you soon and are going to be big business, predicts entrepreneur and author Paul Cuatrecasas. “The next major revolution–on a scale with moving from the horse and cart to the automobile–is going to be in food,” says Cuatrecasas, CEO of mergers and acquisitions and strategic advisory firm Aquaa Partners.

Is veganism the future of our planet? Netflix sci-fi series Travelers says yes. The sci-fi show, which originally aired on Canadian network Showcase, takes place “many centuries into the future, [when] the Earth’s population has dwindled to almost nothing — but the survivors have discovered the key to time travel. Desperate to save humanity, a group enters the 21st century on a mission to avert disaster.” Although there are no animals left on earth at this time, fans of the show say that the future is almost certainly an entirely vegan one.

Furniture giant IKEA is set to launch a vegan version of its popular meatballs. Although IKEA already has vegan meatballs on sale, the new dish has the “look and taste” of animal meat. From August 3, UK customers can enjoy the meatballs in IKEA bistros, priced at £1.50 for eight balls. Bags of the new product can also be purchased from the food market, priced at £2.75 for 500g. The meal will be on sale in IKEA restaurants from October 26.

KFC will sell Beyond Fried Chicken at over 50 restaurants in Southern California, the chain announced on Thursday in a press release emailed to Business Insider. The plant-based chicken will be sold in greater Los Angeles and San Diego, as well as Orange County, starting July 20. It will be available in six-piece or 12-piece packs or as part of a combo meal, while supplies last.

An Israel-based startup is shaking up the plant-based protein industry. Redefine Meat has unveiled a new plant-based alternative to steak- the Alt-Steak. The company utilizes 3D printing technology to mimic the texture, flavor, and appearance of beef steak.

In a new survey, more people than ever say they are eating plant-based for the environment. Health is still the primary reason but climate concerns are rising.

Beyond Meat is going beyond another border. The plant-based-meat company today announced its expansion into Brazil, where it will debut its Beyond Burger, Beyond Sausage, and Beyond Beef products. The meat alternatives will appear in the aisles of upscale supermarket chain St. Marche, at 19 of its locations across São Paolo.

KFC will test chicken nuggets made with 3D bioprinting technology in Moscow, Russia, this fall, the chain announced in a July 16 press release. The chicken chain has partnered with 3D Bioprinting Solutions to create a chicken nugget made in a lab with chicken and plant cells using bioprinting. Bioprinting, which uses 3D-printing techniques to combine biological material, is used in medicine to create tissue and even organs.

Despite the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic, more than 500 new vegan restaurants have opened around the world during this time. Data from online vegetarian and vegan food review service HappyCow has highlighted the boom in meat-free businesses.

"The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations estimates that meat production—a decent proxy for consumption—dropped in 2019, and it forecasts a decline again this year," Bullard wrote. "Last year was only the second since 1961 in which production fell; two consecutive years of decline is unprecedented and could be the start of something durable."

One study found that sitting in a discussion section on the ethics of meat led students to lower their meat consumption.

Figures show that sales of tofu grew by almost 82 percent in the UK during the coronavirus lockdown. Consumer insight company Kantar Worldpanel investigated the boom in plant-based eating, and discovered the rising interest in tofu. In line with this growing trend, a number of UK supermarkets have reported an increase in sales for vegan meat substitutes.

The key to the company’s growth isn’t with vegetarians, but those Beyond Meat can convince to eat less meat.

While many types of veggie burgers are made with thought and care, most come out like a weirdly textured, flavorless puck that tastes like anything but real meat. But one company has done what used to seem like the impossible: create an entirely plant-based burger that could probably fool most carnivores. Appropriately called the "Impossible Burger," the beefy, but beef-free creation is available at chef David Chang's New York City restaurant Nishi.