Beyond Meat's stock market value hits $3.8bn as shares in the US firm start trading on Wall Street.

“We have been testing the marketing when it comes to vegan cheese for quite some time, and we’re just about ready to make the leap!” Pizza Hut told us in a recent e-mail exchange. “We plan to have vegan cheese available at all of our U.S. locations by the end of summer, most likely in August.” They note that “we’ll have an official announcement with a precise date in the very near future!”

Anne Hathaway first went vegan in 2012 as a way to lose weight for a movie role. Almost immediately, the actor struggled with low energy levels — a reality that prompted her to ditch the diet altogether nearly two years later. Hathaway recounts the moment she abandoned her veganism in a recent interview with Tatler magazine.

It’s important to include some high-calorie, high-protein foods in order to feel satisfied. Simply removing animal products from a typical American diet is going to leave you with mostly low-calorie foods such as salads, vegetables, and fruit. Eating only these foods could quickly leave you feeling hungry and weak, and thinking a vegan diet is a real challenge.

The series, executively produced by Harrelson, will feature vegan chefs, farmers and innovators from all over the world, exploring how we can work together towards a sustainable food system. Derek and Chad Sarno, vegan chefs behind the brand Wicked Kitchen, will be heavily involved in the docu-series, travelling the globe to find inspiring individuals who can teach us about the plant-based movement.

If you’re a vegetarian in the Dallas, TX, area, you’ll want to head to a Taco Bell near you ASAP. The chain is testing a menu that features some Taco Bell favorites catered to a meat-free diet, beginning Thursday, April 4. The menu will offer two new items: a Vegetarian Crunchwrap Supreme and a Vegetarian Quesarito, both of which are American Vegetarian Association-certified, according to Taco Bell. The 7-Layer Burrito is also featured on the menu.

After about 15 years working in the meat industry, butcher Brian Kavanagh found he was concealing a secret. Much of his adult life had been spent shaping, slicing and trimming animal products by the slab without a qualm - a career that began when he was just 16 in a small family-run butcher in Burnside, South Lanarkshire.

The broadcaster, who was interviewed for the upcoming issue of Radio Times magazine said people need to be responsible when it comes to trying to keep the planet healthy.

Sales of dairy milk plummeted by $1.1 billion in 2018 according to statistics revealed by the Dairy Farmers of America during its annual meeting. In 2017, sales of dairy products amounted to $14.7 billion and dropped by eight percent to $13.6 billion in 2018. Despite claims that low milk prices are to blame, the dairy industry is facing extinction due to a consumer shift toward plant-based alternatives.

Outrage has sparked after an anti-vegan ate from a raw pig's head, at Brighton's annual VegFest event. The raw-meat-eater, an infamous YouTuber called Sv3rige, performed the same stunt last year at a vegan food festival in Amsterdam, and is now planning an 'Anti-Vegan' tour across the UK and Australia.

A total of approximately 6.5 million Canadians (20 percent of the population) are actively reducing, or completely eliminating, their consumption of meat, according to a study conducted by Dalhousie University and the University of Guelph. The researchers were interested in discovering how Canadians were responding to the 2019 Canada Food Guide—which de-emphasizes the consumption of meat and dairy, instead recommending that Canadians focus on plant-based sources of protein.

Nothing will make you give up on your vegan diet if you’re feeling sick all of the time. Sadly, many people are not thriving after going vegan, despite eating a healthier diet than before. In recent years there have been a few high profile vegans who have reverted back to animal products even after many…

The makers of plant-based burgers and breakfast sausage is launching a vegan cheese burger.

Whether it’s scientists and food producers racing to get lab-grown meat on the shelves or big conglomerates like Unilever investing in plant-based animal product alternatives, the plant-based movement has been growing exponentially for the past couple of years. In light of our The Future of Meat event, I talked to Pablo Moleman, Co-Founder of The Netherlands branch of prominent international food-awareness organisation Proveg, about the present and future of the plant-based food movement.

It’s been just over one year since filmmaker Kevin Smith suffered a near-fatal heart attack that would eventually transform his health for the better. The filmmaker wrote on Instagram that he spent the one-year anniversary “living it up” with longtime friends and “Jay and Silent Bob” co-stars Jason Mewes and Jason Lee, to work on the upcoming reboot.

One common complaint I hear from non-vegans is, “Oh, I just don’t like vegan food.” It always makes me feel so sad for this person whose life is apparently free of chips and guac, juicy tangerines, and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

Nowadays, the majority of people encompassing the world are willing to be a vegetarian or vegan. The number of vegetarians and vegans increased rapidly within a few years. Additionally, studies have shown that it will continue to rise. On the other hand, the remaining population chooses non-veg food for taste and nutrition. There are plenty of reasons why you should try a vegetarianHawaii diet even though you don't want to become a vegan or vegetarian.

It took Impossible Foods years–and deep expertise in biotech–to develop a plant-based burger that looked and tasted like beef. Other companies, like Just, also have multimillion-dollar labs. But a new startup now wants to make it easier for the other companies to enter the world of plant-based or cell-grown meat, dairy, and eggs.

In 2017, the U.K. supermarket Sainsbury’s tried an experiment. The retailer had recently rolled out a vegetarian version of the classic English meal, sausage and mash, labeled “meat-free sausages and mash,” but it wasn’t exactly flying off the shelves. Suspecting the uninspired name might have to do with the lackluster sales, Sainsbury’s tried out a few different labels: “field-grown sausages and mash,” Cumberland-spiced veggie sausages and mash,” and “better sausages and mash.” Every alternative name sold better, but “Cumberland-spiced” brought sales up 76% in two months.

Sales of the “bleeding” Beyond Burger are soaring at Finnish vegan burger shop Bun2Bun. The chain became Finland’s first vegan burger shop in December, selling plant-based patties from Beyond Meat with dairy-free cheese and vegan sides.