Men’s meaty diets are responsible for 40% more climate-heating emissions than those of women, according to a UK study. The research also found a quarter of diet-related emissions were from “optional” food and drink, such as coffee, alcohol, cakes and sweets. The scientists said policies to encourage sustainable diets should focus on plant-based foods but switching drinks and cutting down on sweet snacks presented further opportunities.

Plant-based meat has gone mainstream. The Impossible Burger, which debuted at a single restaurant five years ago, is now on Burger King’s permanent menu. And McDonald’s is testing its McPlant burger, featuring a Beyond Meat patty, in select US locations. Both plant-based startups are now veterans in a product category that did $1.4 billion in sales and grew 27 percent in 2020.

The list of meat mimics — plant-based, cultured, fungi-based — is mushrooming.

Our growing appetite for novel food tech - from lab grown meat to nano-packaging.

Our plant-based meat is delicious, healthy, and good for you. We use sustainable, and 100% plant-based approach to create an animal-free product.

Some analysts say they cannot determine if plant-based foods are more sustainable than meat because the companies are not transparent about their emissions.

In an Icelandic greenhouse barley is being grown which could help produce meat without animals.

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Fast-food giants might be the last you'd expect to cater to plant-based eaters. Their businesses are centered around the very antithesis of vegan food: animal-based meat and dairy, made fast and made cheap. But over the last few years, fast-food joints have been making a concerted effort to add meat-free, plant-based, and vegan options to their menus. But the people actually opting for those menu items may surprise you.

The power of the fork has never been so profound. As temperatures around the world continue to warm at alarming rates, individuals are asking themselves what lifestyle changes they can make to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.

Headlines have overshadowed inconvenient truths about biology and cost. Now, new research suggests the industry may be on a crash course with reality.

Get ready to step up your vegan fry up; black pudding from The Bury Black Pudding Company is launching from September in over 300 Asda stores. The vegan black pudding first launched in 2017 but could only be found online and in independent outlets… until now that is!

Olympic vegan boxer Cheavon Clarke recently caught up with Plant Based News and spoke about how his plant-based diet helps his athletic performance, and why he doesn’t try to push his lifestyle on to others.

We’ve grown used to oat milk and soya milk — now a food-tech startup is taking alternative milk to the next level. California-based Perfect Day uses fungi to make dairy protein that is “molecularly identical” to the protein in cow’s milk, says co-founder Ryan Pandya. That means it can be used to make dairy products such as cheese and yogurt.

Startups are joining the race to create first imitation cow’s milk by artificially reproducing proteins in curds and whey

Fast-food innovation hasn't reached a peak judging by the latest creation out of Beyond Meat and Pizza Hut.

Agroundbreaking new report has predicted that the plant-based food market will exceed $162 billion within the next decade. A growing preference for sustainable, healthier foods is pushing the movement.

Good Catch aims to capture consumers, using plant-based fish as a lure.

Customers are choosing plant-based meat for the environment and for their health. Would a meat tax help scale the industry even further?

From Singapore to the International Space Station, we're starting to see how cultured, or lab-grown, meat might soon make its way out of the lab and into everyday diets, and a newly opened factory in Israel should do plenty to help things along. Billed as the world's first industrial production facility for cultured meat, local company Future Meat Technologies sees it as a key stepping stone in efforts to scale up its operations.