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The 50CUT Burger: US Butchery Pat LaFrieda Embraces Blended Meat with Mush Foods Partnership
US butchery Pat LaFrieda Meat Purveyors has partnered with mycelium meat startup Mush Foods to debut a burger made from the latter's 50CUT blend of mushroom root and beef.
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Flexitarian Diets Can Reduce Emissions & Help Meet 1.5°C Climate Goal: Study
Certain dietary shifts can bring carbon benefits, according to a new study, which notes how plant-heavy flexitarian eating patterns can reduce greenhouse gas emissions (especially methane) and help the planet meet its 1.5°C goal.
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Florida Will Soon Remove the Mention of Climate Change From Most Laws
The state is spending big on adapting to sea level rise, but Republicans don't want to name the cause.
By Kate Yoder
In Florida, the effects of climate change are hard to ignore, no matter your politics. It’s the hottest!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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‘Music to Our Ears’: Meat Lobby Celebrates ‘Positive Outcomes’ for Industry at COP28
As meat and dairy representatives turned out to COP28 in record numbers, the climate summit's promised food systems transformation policies fell short – and the livestock lobby is delighted.
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Voyage Foods Pens Deal with Cargill to Expand Cocoa-Free Chocolate & Nut-Free Spreads
Californian ethical pantry startup Voyage Foods has signed a commercial deal with food conglomerate Cargill to scale up the production and distribution of its cocoa-free chocolate and nut-free spreads.
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Food, Inc. 2 Sheds Light on Big Food, UPFs, Modern Slavery & Cultivated Meat – But Lacks Focus
The sequel to the Oscar-nominated documentary from 2008, Food, Inc. 2 shows just how much power Big Ag wields on the food system, tackles solutions like cultivated meat and seaweed, and highlights the problem with workers' rights and UPFs.!-->…
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Zara, H&M Linked to Illegal Deforestation & Human Rights Abuses with Brazilian Cotton Supply Chain
Industrial cotton farming in Brazil that's sold to Asian suppliers of Zara and H&M is destroying the Cerrado savanna and violating the rights of local communities, a new investigation has revealed.
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Swiss Government’s Climate Inaction Violates Human Rights, Rules Top European Court
In a landmark ruling, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled in favour of a group of Swiss women, who said their government violated human rights by taking inadequate action on climate change. However, the court also threw out two!-->…
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Exclusive: Australia’s Harvest B Unveils Blended Meat Range Ahead of US Expansion & Series A
Australian alternative protein startup Harvest B is entering the blended meat space with 50/50 slow-cooked beef and lamb SKUs, as it prepares for a US expansion and its Series A funding round.
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US Banks Have Provided $134B in Livestock Funding Since 2016, With Nestlé & ADM Biggest Beneficiaries
Despite net-zero plans, banks in the US are fuelling the expansion of industrial livestock production by financing corporations whose emissions are higher than all of Japan, according to new research.
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Educational Injustice: How Climate Stressors are Affecting Children’s Education
A review of climate studies has revealed how global heating and extreme weather events have affected children's education and performance in schools.
There is ample evidence about the effects of climate change on children's mental and!-->!-->!-->…
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Climate & Animal Activists Urge World Bank to Stop Financing Factory Farms
The World Bank's private sector arm is facing calls from climate and animal rights campaigners to phase out its financial support to industrial livestock farming.
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JBS Lawsuit: What New York’s Case Against the World’s Biggest Meat Company Means for the Livestock Industry
Brazilian meat giant JBS has faced plenty of lawsuits in its time – but the latest one could be the most damaging one of them all, given that it comes from a state attorney general. If the government intervention prevails, there will!-->…
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Meal Reveal: Hellmann’s Launches AI Recipe Tool to Cut Household Food Waste
Unilever-owned mayo brand Hellmann's has rolled out an AI-enabled tool that uses an ingredient scan to produce recipes that can help households use up food and reduce waste.
Launch your camera app, scan your fridge, and your phone will!-->!-->!-->…
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Eco-Friendly Retirement: Is Your 401(k) Fuelling Climate Change?
By one tally, 401(k)-type plans are providing $46.5 billion to Big Oil right now.
By Barbara Grady
People often debate the best things individuals can do to help solve the climate crisis — ditch your combustion engine car for an!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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Some of the Most Powerful Ad & PR Execs Have Links to Highly Polluting Industries: Report
Half of the executives at the six largest advertising and public relations firms have connections with heavily polluting industries, according to a new investigation by climate media outlet DeSmog and marketing activism group Clean!-->…
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Consumers Prefer Climate-Friendly Products, But Are Misled by ‘Low-Carbon’ Meat Labels Like Tyson’s Brazen Beef
The majority of consumers would pay more for products labelled as 'climate-friendly' or 'low-carbon', but the use of these labels on beef packaging breeds misunderstanding of its true climate impact, finds a new study.
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Carbon Majors: Fossil Fuel Emissions Have Increased Since the Paris Agreement, With State-Owned Companies in the Spotlight
Emissions from the world's biggest fossil fuel producers were higher in the seven years after the Paris Agreement than in the same period before, with nation-states and state-owned companies responsible for a growing chunk of this figure.
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82% of EU Subsidies Go to Livestock Farming – Four Times More Than Plant-Based Food
A majority of the EU's farmer subsidies through the Common Agriculture Policy go to animal agriculture, which accounts for 84% of the bloc's food emissions, undermining its climate goals for 2050.
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‘A Global Tragedy’: We Waste A Billion Meals Every Day, Just as 780 Million Go Hungry Globally
Despite more than 780 million people facing hunger around the world, over a billion household meals are thrown out every day, resulting in over $1T in economic losses, reveals a new UN report.
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In An Open Letter to Biden, the US Congress is Asking for More Plant-Based Food
Highlighting the climate and health benefits of vegan diets, 55 Congressional leaders in the US have penned an open letter to president Joe Biden, urging him to increase plant-based food options across all federal facilities nationwide.
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