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13 Bipartisan Lawmakers Demand FDA Set Guidelines for Animal-Free Drug Testing Methods
A group of 13 bipartisan lawmakers just sent a demand letter to the FDA, asking it to release guidelines to help drug makers meet regulatory approvals using animal-free testing methods.
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Why 10 Percent of Meat, Eggs, and Dairy Will Come from Alternative Proteins by 2035
A new report on Canada’s alternative proteins industry reveals that one in 10 servings of meat, eggs, and dairy will come from alternative proteins by 2035.
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Dairy-Free Milkshakes Arrive at All 220 Smashburger Locations
Eclipse Foods partners with Smashburger to add six vegan milkshakes to its menus nationwide in the largest launch of its kind.
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Veganz Opens Vegan Salmon Factory as Demand for Seafood Alternatives Rises
European vegan food brand Veganz has opened its second manufacturing plant—this time for vegan salmon.
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Mark Cuban-Backed Vegan Bacon Made From Seaweed Just Launched in These 3 Restaurants
Berkeley, CA-based Umaro Foods has launched its first product, vegan bacon made from red seaweed, at restaurants in New York, Nashville, and San Francisco.
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Mars’ New Vegan Chocolate Bar Is as Smooth as Dove Thanks to Perfect Day’s Animal-Free Whey
Made using Perfect Day’s animal-free whey, Mars is launching its first vegan milk chocolate bar in the United States under new brand CO2COA—a nod to cocoa with a lower carbon footprint.
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How Do You Make Whole-Cut Cultivated Meat? You Exercise It, Of Course.
IP Australia has granted Israel’s MeaTech a patent for the development of systems that physically manipulate cultivated muscle tissue in a way that mimics cow movement without the cow.
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This Vegan Fast-Food Chain’s Burgers Just Got 38 Percent Cheaper to Compete With McDonald’s and Burger King
Plant Power has reduced the prices of its vegan burgers and cheeseburgers in an effort to remove price as a barrier to plant-based fast food.
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How SuperMeat’s New Open-Source Platform Will Make Cultivated Meat Cheaper for Everyone
Israel-based SuperMeat is working to lower the cost of cell growth medium—a pricey component of cultivated meat—using a new discovery platform.
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Coolhaus Perfects Vegan Ice Cream Sandwiches with Perfect Day’s Animal-Free Whey
Queer-founded ice cream brand Coolhaus is releasing its first Brave Robot collaboration: vegan ice cream sandwiches made with Perfect Day’s animal-free whey.
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Eat Just to Make 30 Million Pounds of Cultivated Meat Annually at Historic US Facility
GOOD Meat—the cultivated meat subsidiary of Eat Just—plans to open its first US facility where 250,000-liter bioreactors will take the place of cows and chicken in making 30 million pounds of meat every year without slaughtering a single animal.
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Plant-Based Meat Is Moving Beyond Burgers as Vegan Steaks Hit the Plate
The plant-based meat movement is pressing on to replace every part of the cow. Next stop? Vegan steak.
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A Serving of These Tomatoes Has as Much Vitamin D3 as 2 Eggs
Vitamin D3 is found in either the sun or animal products. British scientists are now using CRISPR gene-editing technology to develop tomatoes that close the nutrition gap for vegans and others who do not consume meat, dairy, or eggs.
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This Is the World’s First “Real” Chocolate Milk Made with Precision Fermentation
New food-technology company Tomorrow Farms uses Perfect Day’s animal-free whey to make dairy-identical chocolate milk that’s kind to cows.
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How Robert Downey Jr. Is Helping to Improve Vegan Meat
Actor Robert Downey Jr.’s latest investment in the plant-based industry is in Motif FoodWorks, a food-tech company working to improve the taste, nutrition, and texture of vegan meat.
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This Startup Will Soon Produce 45 Million Pounds of Vegan Mushroom Steak Every Year
Colorado startup Meati has launched a whole-cut vegan steak made from the mycelium mushroom root and it’s available for delivery directly to consumers.
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Why Starbucks’ Newest Vegan Milk Is Made Using Artificial Intelligence
The international coffee giant recently launched NotCo’s vegan milk, created using artificial intelligence, at all Colombia locations.
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This Startup is Disrupting the $89 Billion Cheese Industry With the Same Technology as Perfect Day
Change Foods is on a mission to replicate casein—the main dairy protein in cheese making—by using precision fermentation instead of cows.
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Leonardo DiCaprio Invests in Startup That Is Growing Leather From Cells
VitroLabs has raised $46 million with the help of Leonardo DiCaprio to make the world’s first pilot production of cell-cultivated leather.
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Why Drew Barrymore Is the “Chief Mom Officer” for this Meatless Chicken Brand
Award-winning actress Drew Barrymore is “doing something of real substance” as the new Chief Mom Officer at Quorn, maker of fungi-based meatless chicken.
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Replacing 20 Percent of Beef with Mushroom Meat Can Cut Deforestation in Half by 2050
A new study finds that replacing one fifth of the world’s beef with proteins made using fungi-based microbial fermentation can help slash deforestation by 50 percent by 2050.
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New Whole-Cut Vegan Smoked Salmon Is Made From One Ingredient: Spirulina
Food-tech startup SimpliiGood is extending the benefits of spirulina by using it as the sole ingredient for its new whole-cut vegan salmon.
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How This Vegan Chicken Nugget Startup Became the First to Outprice Meat
Seattle startup Rebellyous Foods has reached a key milestone that will help scale production of its plant-based chicken and offer it at the same price as animal meat.
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The World’s Largest Animal-Free Dairy Factory Will Make As Much Milk Protein as 50,000 Cows
Israeli company Remilk will open the world’s largest animal-free dairy factory in Denmark where it will produce as much milk protein as 50,000 cows every year without exploiting a single animal or harming the environment.
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From Vegan Chicken to Plant-Based Bacon: The Top 5 Vegan Food Trends of 2022
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