It was after Laurence Candy lost most of his dairy herd to bovine tuberculosis that he decided he would no longer send animals to the slaughterhouse. "It made me wonder if we can justify the industrial slaughter of sentient beings," says the 50-year-old looking back on the event in 2017. "As a society, we have to question this."

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?”

Big meat and food conglomerates threaten to push out smaller producers of meat alternatives in the same way they have affected other food industries, according to two recent reports. Meat companies such as JBS and Cargill have invested heavily in plant-based proteins and laboratory-grown meats in recent years and bought out several smaller companies, according to a report published Tuesday by the non-profit Food & Water Watch and a March report from IPES-Food, a coalition of food systems experts.

Plant-based dairy alternatives have been around for decades. But now, one California company is making real dairy without the cows.

In a grueling race of man against machine, Robbie Balenger, an ultra-runner known for competing in unique races, recently went up against a Tesla Model 3 electric car in a first-of-its-kind endurance race.

Vegan alternatives to leather could save much more than just animal lives. A group of scientists has high hopes for mushroom leather, which they believe will be a new replacement for animal leather. Mushroom mycelium can be a great replica of animal leather and predictions include a solution to our planet. What exactly is mushroom leather and how exactly is it supposed to save our planet already?

Healthy Vegan Carrot Cake Baked Oats is a nourishing, easy to make and incredibly scrumptious recipe that you can make ahead of time for pre-made breakfasts

New data revealed that eating plant-based twice a week is equivalent to planting 13.88 billion trees per year.

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.

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%.

Until I read the release form, I wasn’t concerned that the bite of sautéed chicken breast I was about to eat had taken less than three weeks to grow from a few cells inside a laboratory tank to a thick sheet of meat.

More than 160 million vegan chicken wings will be eaten during Super Bowl LVI this year, according to farmed animal protection organization Compassion in World Farming. It has also estimated that more than 10 million Americans will pass on animal-based chicken wings and eat vegan wings instead.

To win over consumers, vegan meat brands will need to underprice their animal-based competition. New reports show this could happen sooner than expected. 

You might have seen a lot and heard a lot about Bone Broth and its “gut healing” properties in the news and media, as it seems to be a health trend at the moment. So, in addition to creating a vegan bone broth alternative (recipe below) I decided to look into what exactly it is about bone broth is apparently so fascinating…

MycoWorks is investing $107 million to build its first full-scale mushroom leather production plant in South Carolina, where it will create 400 new jobs. 

Veganism has gone mainstream, so it’s easy to forget what life used to be like for us plant-munchers. In restaurants we had to endure awkward conversations with bewildered waiters, who would disappear to the kitchen and return saying they could do us the salad with the cheese picked out and the dressing left off. We’d go home hungry.

Young women who consume little to no red meat and dairy are at risk of developing vitamin deficiencies that could lead to health problems later in life, a scientist has said. Professor Ian Givens, director of the Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health at Reading University, told a briefing at the Science Media Centre that half of young women aged between 11 and 18 were consuming below the minimum recommended level of iron and magnesium.

How to make a vegan deep pan pizza. If you can make bread, you can make pizza dough. If you never made bread, don't worry; this is so easy! I used to love pizza, so creating my own vegan pizza is something I have dreamed about for a long time. Obviously, there are different types of base, but this recipe uses a deep pan base, which is very bready. One of my main worries was finding the right vegan cheese. I remember seeing a post on Twitter stating how good Applewood vegan cheese was, so when I saw it in the shop I jumped at the chance.

Yum Brands Inc's KFC restaurants will start selling plant-based fried "chicken" from Beyond Meat Inc across the United States on Jan. 10 for a limited time, KFC said on Tuesday.

Choosing vegan cheese instead of dairy is a sustainable move according to Violife’s new life cycle analysis.