All Future of meat articles – Page 4
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NewsThis targets profitability after heavy losses
Meat alternative producer This is targeting profitability by 2025 as it shifts focus from hyper-growth to improving margins following heavy losses.
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NewsBetter Nature appoints non-exec as it launches fresh funding round
Plant-based challenger Better Nature has strengthened its board and kicked off a crowdfunding campaign as it continues to push tempeh into the mainstream
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Comment & OpinionConsolidation in the plant-based meat market is inevitable
Plant-based is following the trend of any exciting, high-growth nascent category, says Mark Turner, MD at This
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NewsThis sells stake to ITV for TV ad campaign
Plant-based brand This has sold a minority stake to ITV in return for up to £4m worth of advertising across the station’s channels
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Analysis & FeaturesFour things affecting fmcg following Rishi Sunak’s green rowback
PM Rishi Sunak’s recent rowback on the government’s green plans have stirred up significant discussion
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Comment & OpinionIntensive animal farming is killing the planet. The solution is in our hands
We need to reduce the number of animals farmed and move to higher-welfare regenerative farm systems, says Dr Tracey Jones, global director of food business at Compassion in World Farming
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Analysis & FeaturesCan Enough save the reputation of plant-based alt meats?
The food tech business plans to produce masses of mycoprotein
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Category ReportIs there still an appetite for plant-based meat?
Despite some high-profile exits from alt meat, a wealth of big brands remain ambitious – and smaller players are also aiming to make a mark
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NewsEnough secures €40m to produce cheaper meat-free products
The sustainable meat-free ingredients group has raised the funding to boost capacity at its factory
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InterviewsHow Napoleon inspired Mighty Earth founder Glenn Hurowitz to tackle Big Meat
Growing up, Glenn Hurowitz believed he could save the planet. Now, the founder of climate action group Mighty Earth is taking on Big Meat, which he feels does more environmental harm than any industry
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Comment & OpinionCell meat is a hard sell. I hope Brits reject it
While Brits might initially embrace fleeting food fashions, at the end of the day our food instincts are sound, says Joanna Blythman, food journalist and author of Swallow This
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Comment & OpinionThe Oxford study on meat emissions misses the point
For a study of such significance there are some seriously simplistic and misleading conclusions being drawn here, says Jeff Webster, co-founder and CVO at Hunter & Gather
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NewsLoveSeitan throws in the towel as shoppers renounce seitan
LoveSeitan, which supplied plant-based products to the likes of Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Aldi, has ceased trading after slower-than-expected take-up of seitan as a meat alternative
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NewsBeyond Meat shares hammered as sales plummet in Q2
Beyond Meat cut losses in the second quarter thanks to lower costs following mass redundancies made in 2022
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Comment & OpinionFood Matters Live Podcast: juicy chat on lab-grown chicken
‘Cultivated meat: World watches after American approval’ is satisfyingly free of pearl-clutching over ‘frankenmeat’
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NewsMeatless Farm European losses totalled €20m, new bankruptcy report reveals
Meatless Farm racked up losses of almost €20m (£17.1m) in just more than three years of operating in Europe, a new bankruptcy report in the Netherlands has revealed
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Comment & OpinionGregg Wallace serves Swift in Channel 4’s ‘Miracle Meat’ satire
Some 85 years after Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds and many of us are still vulnerable to falling for mock-media
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NewsPlant & Bean owed creditors £6m at time of administration
Failed meat alternative manufacturer Plant & Bean ran up losses of at least £7m in just two years of trading and owed creditors more than £6m when it collapsed earlier this year, new documents have revealed.
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News3D-printed Redefine Meat seals major wholesaler deals
The Israeli business has partnered with eight wholesalers to expand its availability across UK foodservice operators
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NewsFinnebrogue and Ivy Farm partner to create lab-grown wagyu beef
The two businesses have signed a letter of intent with the aim of developing cultivated meat for the UK retail market