Plant-based meat alternatives will have to come up with new terminology in France. The country adopted a measure banning plant-based products from using the same names as food from dead animals.

Team call in Michelin-starred chefs to help crack challenge of mimicking texture of seafood

A higher intake of plant protein is associated with a reduced risk of frailty in women over 60, says a new study published in the Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia, and Muscle.

The plant-based meat movement is evolving rapidly to deliver animal-free alternatives to every type of meat. While plant-based brands such as Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods initially set their sights on replacing ground beef, which is easier to replicate given its lack of structure, now, whole cuts of beef are getting the plant-based treatment.

A Finnish company says it has found a way to incorporate bone into ground chicken, lowering the production cost and environmental impact of the meat. But will anyone eat it?

The Austrian-based start-up ATTA wants to make mushrooms a serious meat alternative - by building mushroom-growing facilities that are smart, simple and affordable.

I cover the plant-based food industry for Vox, so I get a lot of free food samples. A lot. Some of the products that startups mail me are delicious, many are just okay, and a few have been downright awful, bad enough to make me wonder out loud, “Why are they letting people eat this stuff?”

The building of the world’s largest bioreactors to produce cultivated meat has been announced, with the potential to supply tens of thousands of shops and restaurants. Experts said the move could be a “gamechanger” for the nascent industry. The US company Good Meat said the bioreactors would grow more than 13,000 tonnes of chicken and beef a year. It will use cells taken from cell banks or eggs, so the meat will not require the slaughter of any livestock.

Conglomerates have bought out several smaller companies as the meat substitute market is predicted to grow rapidly

Burger King aims to become 50% meatless by 2030. What does that mean for the industry at large?

Every EU citizen consumes around 80 kilograms of meat per year. But every juicy steak, every delicious sausage has a price that we do not pay at the counter, because livestock farming damages the climate and the environment. Ruminants, for instance, produce methane, which accelerates global warming.

Every year, the meat industry raises billions of chickens on factory farms to meet consumer demand.

Your diet affects climate change. Here’s what you need to know about eating meat, dairy, seafood and produce, and preventing food waste in a warming world.

California-based Beyond Meat continues its drive to satisfy plant-based consumers by expanding the presence of its chicken tenders in high-profile retailers. Beginning April 12, Beyond will add Albertsons, CVS, Sprouts, and Whole Foods Market stores nationwide to its roster. Krogers and its brands (Fry’s, Food 4 Less, QFC, Ralph’s) will add the product throughout April. Beyond’s September 2021 announcement of the new product revealed an initial slate of retail partners led by Walmart.

It’s official: JUST Egg is finally coming to Europe. Made by California-based brand Eat Just, JUST Egg is renowned in the US for its ability to mimic the taste and texture of real chicken eggs. Instead, the brand uses mung beans to get that egg-like consistency. It offers scramble, folded, and even sous vide plant egg bites. All made from plants, no chicken required.

Burger King has announced one of their restaurants will go 100% plant-based for an entire month. It didn’t take long for meat-lovers to rally outside the restaurant to show their anger toward this decision.

In 2013, the world’s first lab-grown burger was served at a London news conference, and it cost $330,000 to create.

Better Dairy is using precision fermentation to produce cheeses that are molecularly identical to traditional dairy.

Food tech company Better Dairy is closer to getting its aged and hard cheeses into the testing phase after securing $22 million in Series A funding. The U.K.-based company, founded in 2019 by Jevan Nagarajah, is still in the R&D phase of developing animal-free cheeses using precision fermentation. We initially got to know Nagarajah and Better Dairy back in 2020 when the company raised £1.6 million in seed funding in a round led by Happiness Capital.

About 10% of Americans over the age of 18 consider themselves vegan or vegetarian as of January 2022. That’s the main finding of an online survey we administered to 930 Americans, selected to be representative of the U.S population in terms of gender, education, age and income. The margin of error is plus or minus 2%.