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After Ditching Leather, Apple Nixes Vegan FineWoven Alternative Too – It’s A Big Miss
Apple has stopped production of FineWoven, its eco-friendly alternative to leather for iPhone and Apple Watch cases, after complaints about its performance and durability.
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Choose Chicken-Free Week: Veganuary Announces First of Multiple New Campaigns
Veganuary will soon host the first Choose Chicken-Free Week, as part of a wider rollout of mini-campaigns to complement its annual month-long initiative.
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Impossible Ranch: Alt-Meat Giant to Transition Cattle Farm Into Crop Production for Plant-Based Meat
Impossible Foods has invested in transitioning a farm from cattle production for meat to crop cultivation for plant-based meat, all while rescuing the cows in the process.
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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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EU Commission Facing Legal Action Over Failure to Deliver Caged Farming Ban
The EU Commission is facing legal action from a European Citizens' Initiative group after it failed to uphold a promised ban on caged farming in the region, despite overwhelming consumer support for the move.
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Copenhagen Fashion Week Bans Exotic Animal Skins & Feathers – Will Others Follow?
Copenhagen Fashion Week made headlines last week after announcing it would ban exotic skins and feathers from its runways starting next year. Now, campaigners are calling on other fashion weeks to follow suit with cruelty-free policies.
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As Kentucky Mulls Over Ag-Gag Bill, Footage Shows Animal Cruelty at KFC Supplier Pilgrim’s Poultry Farm
Lawmakers in Kentucky are hoping to amend a law that would effectively criminalise whistleblowing and protect industrial livestock farming companies – but a new investigation into Pilgrim's Pride chicken farms shows exactly why the!-->…
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SuperAA: PoLoPo’s Molecular Farming Platform Turns Potatoes Into Egg Protein Factories
As molecular farming gains steam as an alternative protein pillar, Israel's PoLoPo joins the party with a tech platform that can transform potatoes into protein-producing factories, starting with egg proteins.
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The Kraken: Revo Foods Releases the World’s First Vegan Octopus
Revo Foods has today launched the world's first vegan octopus for retail, using its patented 3D-printing technology to transform fungi into a seafood analogue beloved by many, and one being increasingly unethically farmed.
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Cage-Free Policy: New Zealand & Israel Lead APAC’s Animal Welfare Standards, While SE Asia Lags
New Zealand has the most robust cage-free policy framework across Asia-Pacific, while Bangladesh, Malaysia and Vietnam have the joint worst, according to a new 17-country report.
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The Body Shop: How the Ethical Beauty Pioneer’s Fortunes Soured, and What Happens Next
The Body Shop has announced that its UK and German operations have gone into administration, with its business in other countries also in jeopardy. How did it get here, and what's next?
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Why Are We Still Killing Horseshoe Crabs? An Alternative Has Existed for Decades
The US Pharmacopeia has finally released draft guidelines to allow the use of human-made alternatives to horseshoe crab blood – a critical element in biomedical and pharmaceutical testing. After failing in 2020, can the guidance pass this!-->…
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10 Years of Veganuary: Taking a Closer Look at the Campaign’s Impressive Wins and Longterm Impact
Since launching in 2014, Veganuary has boasted increasing sign-ups year on year. But what’s the evidence that the campaign that encourages people to adopt a vegan diet during January is really taking a bite out of the meat market?
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Not So Happy: NotCo Targets Chick-fil-A & Other Meat Companies with Animal Abuse Jingle
Chilean food tech startup NotCo has unveiled its latest marketing campaign, Not So Happy Animals, which highlights some uncomfortable truths about the meat industry.
"I might look like I'm happy, but my grin is not real."
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No More Dog Meat: Big Animal Rights Win as South Korea Bans Sale in ‘Historic’ Decision
In a landmark decision, South Korea's parliament has banned the country's dog meat trade, after years of decline in consumption and an increase in pet adoption over the last few decades. It's a move hailed by youngsters and animal rights!-->…
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Could This New 3D-Printed Chip Help Us Quit Animal Testing For Good?
2023 could prove to be a landmark year for the fight against animal testing, having started on the back of a legislative win and ending with a technological breakthrough, where 3D printing could eliminate the need to trial new drugs and!-->…
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Can Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget Help Change How We See & Eat Food?
Much like its 2000 prequel, Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget is establishing itself in the 2023 cultural zeitgeist – can it help change people's diets into something more sustainable and animal-friendly?
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Is AI Speciesist? Why Animal Welfare Should Be Part of the LLM Ethics Debate
Conversations around artificial intelligence (AI) ethics have lingered around human-centric forms of discrimination like race and gender, but are speciesism and animal welfare also issues the AI sector needs to contend with? The way we!-->…
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Landmark UN Report: Meat & Dairy Alternatives Can Significantly Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions
In a landmark report during the COP28 summit in Dubai, the UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) has openly endorsed alternative proteins – spanning plant-based, cultivated and fermented – as a way to significantly cut emissions,!-->…
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Deep Dive: How the Livestock Lobby Sunk Its Teeth Into the EU’s Animal Welfare Legislations
Food and climate journalist Thin Lei Win shares more details and context about the Lighthouse Reports investigation she worked on with multiple journalists and co-published by The Guardian and IRPI exploring how meat lobby groups pushed!-->…
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The EU Caged Farming Ban is Now on Hold – Thanks to Aggressive Pressure from the Meat Lobby: Report
A new investigation has uncovered how meat lobby groups aggressively pushed back on a proposed EU ban on the caged farming of animals like hens and pigs, which has now been put on hold – despite the majority of EU citizens supporting the!-->…
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