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Tech Startup Begins Year-Long Project to Make Vegan Cheese Melt Better
Motif FoodWorks will explore novel technologies to create plant-based fats as the building blocks for better vegan meat and cheese.
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Startup Develops Vegan Egg Whites to Revolutionize French Pastries
Vegan egg-white replacer YUMGO Blanc was developed specifically to create classic French desserts such as macarons, meringues, mousses, and financiers.
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Japanese Startup Raises $6 Million to Produce 3,000 tons of Vegan Meat Annually
Plant-based startup DAIZ—which aims to become “the fourth meat,” alongside beef, chicken, and pork—will open one of the largest plant-based meat factories in Japan.
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Vegan Brand Oatly Becomes Even More Sustainable by Switching to Electric Transport Vehicles
The oat milk company partners with Swedish transport technology company Einride to reduce its carbon footprint by 87 percent by using all-electric commercial vehicles.
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San Francisco Artisan Shop Now Serves Dairy-Identical Vegan Ice Cream
Silicon Valley startup Perfect Day partners with artisan shop Smitten Ice Cream to launch N’Ice Cream in four vegan flavors: Brown Sugar Chocolate, Fresh Strawberry, Coconut Pecan, and Root Beer Float.
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Singapore Company Raises $8 Million to Launch Vegan Shrimp, Squid, and Crab Made From Chickpeas
Amid disruptions in the animal agriculture industry due to COVID-19, manufacturing company Growthwell Group aims to create a secure food system with innovative plant-based meat, seafood, and dairy products.
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Vegan Chicken Nugget Startup Raises $6 Million to Build “Pandemic-Proof” Food System
Seattle-based Rebellyous Foods will use the funding to advance its equipment manufacturing, making cheaper, more abundant vegan meat with the urgent goal of wiping out disease-ridden factory farms.
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New Cultured-Meat Documentary Meat the Future Debuts Online in Canada Next Month
From the director of animal-rights film The Ghosts in Our Machine, the new documentary spotlight the burgeoning cellular agriculture industry with a focus on Silicon Valley company Memphis Meats.
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New Vegan Egg to Replace Chicken Eggs in Baked Goods in 2021
After five years in development, California-startup Clara Foods is getting ready to debut its vegan egg ingredients, which will replace animal-derived eggs in protein drinks, supplements, and, eventually, baked goods.
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Food Advocacy Group Grants $4 Million to Researchers Working on Animal-Free Meat Innovations
Nonprofit Good Food Institute’s competitive research grant is supporting 21 researchers in nine countries working to advance the plant-based and cell-based meat industries.
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NASA Screens Vegan Film The Game Changers to Prepare for Vegan Future in Outer Space
Scientists prepare for the future—as only plant-based foods can be grown in space—by watching the popular vegan documentary.
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Vegan Pork Sausages to Launch Across Brazil and Europe
Food technology startup Fazenda Futuro’s vegan Future Sausage is encased in a seaweed-based “skin” that sizzles like its animal-based counterpart.
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