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New Scorecard Shows Why Plant-based Protein Will Win in Foodservice
FeaturedEvery year, GFI evaluates the quantity and mainstream appeal of plant-based entrées on the menus of the top 100 U.S. restaurant chains in our Good Food Restaurant Scorecard. The latest data from 2019 indicates more restaurants now have ...
Will Cultured Meat Soon Be A Common Sight In Supermarkets Across The Globe?
FeaturedUp until now, plant-based food companies like Beyond Meat, Impossible Foods, and Quorn have almost singlehandedly worked to lessen the impacts of industrial animal agriculture. Supermarket shelves and fast food restaurants across the US...
Plantible is Turning Aquatic Plants into Next-Gen Plant-based Protein
FeaturedLook at an ingredient list for plant-based meat or dairy products, and right up top you’ll probably see pea, soy, wheat, or maybe even mung bean. But San Diego-based startup Plantible is introducing a brand new player to the alternativ...
Bayer Food Focus Project finds food packaging a top concern
PostAuthor: Bayer NZImage Credit: Bayer NZ A partnership between leading life science company Bayer and the NZ Nutrition Foundation (NZNF) has released the insights from its inaugural Bayer Food Focus Project, taking a look into Kiwis’ eat...
Future Food Now: Asia-Pacific
PostAuthor: Michal KlarImage Credit: Right Treat and Impossible Foods Omnipork and Impossible Foods in mainland China Global and regional plant-based brands have been expanding to new markets in Asia-Pacific for past few years, but almost no...
GFI’s New Plant-Based Meat Manufacturing Guide is Here
PostThe growing demand for plant-based meat, combined with the increased availability of alternative protein ingredient options, has created massive whitespace opportunities for food manufacturing companies. However, as a relatively young ca...
Hooray for Sri Artham’s Plant-Based Bacon!
PostWhen Sri Artham began experimenting with crafting bacon by mixing plant ingredients in his San Francisco kitchen in last February, he didn’t expect to become a pioneer in the plant-based pork business in just a matter of months. He was...
A new Aussie plant-based meat startup has launched, backed by the CSIRO and the founder of Hungry Jack’s
PostThere’s a new plant-based meat alternative in town, backed by Hungry Jack’s founder Jack Cowin. Australian plant-based meat startup v2food launched in Sydney on Tuesday, a partnership between the Commonwealth Scientific and Industria...
Avant Meats, Hong Kong’s First Cell-Based Seafood Startup Looks To Tackle Demand For Prized Fish Maw & Sea Cucumber
PostCell-based meat, also known as lab-grown meat or cultured-meat, is trending right now with headlines about cruelty-free chicken nuggets and shrimp wowing inaugural tasters and Hong Kong-born cell-based seafood startup Avant Meats is ridi...
Eat Kind Awards
PostGorilla Kitchen, Plant Blazed and Grater Goods take out annual Eat Kind Awards Animal rights organisation SAFE is celebrating World Vegan Day by recognising three of New Zealand’s best vegan eateries. SAFE’s annual EAT Kind Awards re...
One in three New Zealanders have cut down on meat consumption, new study shows
PostOne in three New Zealanders, or 34 per cent, have cut down their meat consumption, new research has revealed. The findings – commissioned by not-for-profit think tank Food Frontier and Australasian vegetarian food manufacturer Life Healt...
Sapien redefine Frucor Suntory shopper marketing strategy
PostBehavioural research specialists Sapien have pioneered new technology to measure shopper behaviour, in an innovative new study carried out to redefine Frucor Suntory’s shopper marketing strategy. Working in collaboration with a major N...
Dutch food designer Carolien Niebling on why the future of food might not be fake meat or veganism, but sausages
PostThe humble sausage is a 5000-year-old invention, and that is exactly the beauty of it, Dutch food designer Carolien Niebling says. After all, what better way to judge just how innovative a product is through its longevity and whether it ...
Speaker Profile: Andrew Watene
PostAndrew Watene – A Maori perspective on Alternative Proteins, Agriculture and Innovation. As an associate director within performance consulting for KPMG he recently returned to New Zealand to join KPMG with over two decades experience in...
But what about boil up? How Māori are embracing veganism
PostVegan, kaimanga, kapa kaiota, whekana – whatever you call it, a movement towards a harm free, plant-based lifestyle is being championed by Māori looking to protect Papatūānuku. Across Aotearoa, people are ditching dairy and moving ...
Finnish startup makes alternative protein from carbon dioxide
PostAn innovative startup company from Finland has piloted a new alternative protein product made out of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This meat alternative has the potential to address the environmental evils of both the agriculture i...
The Year of the Rise of Fresh Produce
PostTREND REPORT 2019: United Fresh (www.unitedfresh.co.nz) has over 27 years’ experience supporting and promoting the New Zealand fresh produce industry, working with the entire value chain, from seed producer and grower to consumer, provid...
Tyson announces animal-free products coming in 2019
PostOn Tyson’s first-quarter earnings call, Tyson CEO Noel White announced that Tyson will be launching its own animal-free protein products before the end of the year. Yes, the largest meat producer in the United States—and second large...
The Green Revolution needs more colours
PostIf you think there are a lot of products in the average grocery story, think again. It’s an illusion. We may have in the back of our minds that all the detergents, dish liquids, cleaners, shampoos come from just a handful of multi-nati...
Would you be willing to give up your normal weekly bin collection?
PostWould you be willing to give up your normal weekly bin collection? A growing number of Australian councils believe this could be the way of the future to save money, reduce the piles of garbage rotting in landfill and cut back greenhouse...
Scotland’s food waste causing more greenhouse gas than plastic
PostFood waste is a bigger cause of climate change than plastics, according to Zero Waste Scotland. The government-funded body has urged people to cut down the amount of unwanted food they put in the bin. When food waste ends up in landfill ...
Speaker Profile: Daniel Eb
PostIn 2018 Daniel founded Dirt Road Comms to help inspire transformation of the rural New Zealand story in the digital age. The agency is a fusion of his consumer brand-building professional background and rural Northland experience. He foc...
Tomato tuna anyone? Plant-based meat has moved into the seafood aisle
PostChef Brad Farmerie of New York City restaurant Saxon and Parole says the must-order at his eatery is a dish that features something called “ahimi,” a vegan tomato product that looks and tastes like raw tuna. The taste is so on-point, he ...
Would you eat meat grown from cells in a laboratory? Here’s how it works
PostFor many of us, eating a meal containing meat is a normal part of daily life. But if we dig deeper, some sobering issues emerge. Every year, 66 billion terrestrial animals are slaughtered for food. Predictions are that meat consumption w...
Opinion | France’s Ban on Food Waste Three Years Later
PostFrance became the first country to pass a national regulation specifically against food waste in 2016. That effort earned a lot of attention—resulting in a top ranking in the 2017 Food Sustainability Index—and prompted conversation i...
Speaker Profile: Thomas King
PostThomas King – Re-imagining meat: Australia and New Zealand’s next food frontier. Sausages made from plants, chicken grown from cells – alternatives to conventional meat are rising rapidly. The opportunity to meet global protein dem...
Speaker Profile: Suzy Spoon the Vegetarian Butcher
PostMeeting the protein alternative needs of customers, Suzy Spoon’s Vegetarian Butcher manufactures a range of plant based products in Sydney for the Australian consumer. Suzy is driven by the needs of her customers for high quality, high...
Salmon set to surpass dairy, save the planet
PostIn this week’s business podcast, we look at New Zealand’s biggest salmon farmer, who has an audacious project to make aquaculture bigger than dairy. Think huge underwater salmon paddocks under the Cook Strait, and an industry with an e...
World’s Biggest Vegan Fast Food Chain On Track To Open Over 200 Outlets
PostCopper Branch says it will hit the 50-store mark in April with 15 new restaurant openings in North America – with a further 150 to open by 2020 The world’s biggest vegan fast food chain is set to hit the 50-store mark next month – keep...
Wild Type Makes the Case for Cell-Based Meat in Economic Terms Alone
PostThe team at cell-based meat company Wild Type just made an extremely compelling business case for cell-based meat that has nothing to do with the environmental, societal, animal welfare, or public health benefits.Just as it’s crucial to ...
Let’s save the planet
PostWe can. We just need to fully legalise hemp. Here’s the thing, hemp is a sustainable green gold that can feed us, clothe us, shelter us, heal us and more. Wild caught salmon is not as good, in fact… Hemp massively outperforms wild salm...
Speaker Profile: Lee-Ann Marsh
PostWin-win outcomes for people + planet: How the red meat sector is transforming to meet market needs. Transparency, safety, high quality nutrition, sustainable farming systems and ethical supply chains. The global market is shifting and pr...
Regenerative Agriculture is Having a Moment and 70 Investments Worth $47.5bn are in it
PostRegenerative agriculture is having a moment. For long-time regen ag practitioners and proponents, this is probably jarring. But having written about regenerative agriculture for five years now, I’ve never seen such engagement or our st...
Health professionals welcome ‘Great Food Transformation’
PostNew Zealand health professionals are applauding a landmark report that outlines how to achieve healthy and sustainable eating patterns for a future global population of 10 billion people. The report was produced by the EAT-Lancet Commiss...
Fonterra is investing in artificial meat, but would you eat it?
PostAre cows evil? You could be forgiven for thinking so. If the alternative protein companies are right, it’s much better to eat reconfigured soy-protein with genetically modified heme, or even meat grown in a lab, than eat an actual cow. T...
Sir Peter Jackson and James Cameron team up to promote meatless future
PostThe bromance between two Hollywood heavyweights has led to a project that could change the future of Kiwi farming. Avatar director James Cameron and Hobbit director Sir Peter Jackson have joined forces to create a “plant-based” food busi...
Plant-Based Meat Is About to Get Cheaper Than Animal Flesh, Report Says
PostVegan meat may soon become cheaper than its animal-based counterparts, according to a new report compiled by Liz Specht, PhD, senior scientist at food nonprofit Good Food Institute. In the report, Specht outlines the obstacles that plant...
Superfood company ‘Kaitahi’ top Whanganui Māori business
PostMāori superfood company Kaitahi has taken the top honour at the biannual Te Mānu Te Atatū Whanganui Māori Business Awards. The business manager, Leonie Matoe believes that economic development is integral for Māori to thrive. It’s ...
Is Red Seaweed the Next Big Thing in Plant-Based Protein?
PostEarlier this year, GFI announced the winners of our inaugural Competitive Research Grant Program. Thanks to the generosity of two visionary donors, we were able to allocate three million dollars in research funding to fourteen scientists...
Speaker Profile: Aimee Charteris
PostSmart Natural Food Systems – It can be done! Significant opportunities exist for food producers to develop smart natural food systems that produce the most delicious and nutritious natural produce that focus on the well-being of “all...
Grass-fed message won’t sell NZ products but health benefits could
PostNew Zealand’s “clean, green, grass-fed” message isn’t unique and exporters should instead focus on the nutritional benefits of their food products, Andy Elliot says. Elliot spent much of last year studying the business models of New Zeal...
Could Omega Lamb revive NZ’s sheep-meat industry?
PostGenetics and chicory are giving rise to a high-country sheep so tasty that the meat industry sees it as a potential saviour. Languishing lamb sales could be in for a boost from a project that aims to produce sheep meat to rival wagyu b...
Omega lambs and fitbit cows: New Zealand responds to alternative protein threat
PostAt Dave Harper’s family farm in New Zealand’s scenic Canterbury region, a painstakingly bred flock of lambs is grazing, not on grass, but on a field of herbs selected to unlock healthy omega-3 fatty acids in the animals’ meat. Know...
Speaker Profile: Alison Dewes
PostAlison is a fifth generation farmer, veterinarian and ecologist. Her experience spans Dairying in NZ and Australia, production animal medicine, business development. She previously worked for Nestle Australia in Business Development & Qu...
Rural sector motivated to work towards low-carbon future
PostConsultation on the Government’s Zero Carbon Bill, which sets up a new legal and institutional framework for climate policy, has just ended. Every sector in New Zealand will be affected by this proposed legislation – sheep and beef far...
Project highlights nutrient loss challenges for farmers
PostWork by farmers on a Hawke’s Bay project aiming to cut their nitrogen losses has provided valuable lessons and highlighted the challenges ahead. The “Greening Tukituki” project that included two dairy farmers and two drystock farme...
Rod Oram: Ireland goes where NZ fears to tread
PostFor decades, Irish farmers, scientists and politicians have flocked to New Zealand to learn how we farm so well. They saw us as global leaders. No longer. On Monday Irish farmers featured prominently in their country’s launch of its re...
You Call That Meat? Not So Fast, Cattle Ranchers Say
PostThe cattle ranchers and farm bureaus of America are not going to give up their hold on the word meat without a fight. In recent weeks, beef and farming industry groups have persuaded legislators in more than a dozen states to introduce l...
Speaker Profile: Thomas Sowersby & Gert Jan-Moggre
PostThe protein shift has landed in New Zealand – what was merely a promise from offshore is now here. Our protein industry is evolving and our industry is no longer talking about what might be, could be or should be possible, but is taking ...
Veteran environmentalist tells farmers to brace themselves for change
PostChange is coming and farmers can either take it by the hand or it will grab them by the throat. The magnitude of this change meant farmers have to begin planning to avoid future pain, environmentalist Guy Salmon told dairy farmers at the...
John King: How farming will change under water taxes
PostWe don’t know who discovered water but it wasn’t the fish. A fear of water taxes is gripping farming and here is how I expect pastoral farmers to respond if it becomes a reality. Firstly, there will be a new interest in soil surfaces. Fa...
World’s first cellular agriculture research center
PostThe Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT) Mumbai and The Good Food Institute India are partnering to set up the world’s first government research center for the development of clean meat. India is a key market in the global food syste...
Speaker Profile: Shaun Hendy
PostShaun Hendy, Director of Toha NZ, will be presenting on Science, but not as we know it! “For the last century, science has been dominated by government with very little role for the public or communities in selecting, funding or particip...
Artificial intelligence in aquaculture may be smart key to top of the south growth
PostA “bunch of really smart guys” are setting out to put the top of the south at the cutting edge of artificial intelligence technology. The Nelson Artificial Intelligence Institute has flown under the radar but the team behind it are quiet...
Steve Carden: farming has reached its economic, social environmental limits
PostAs chief executive of a two billion dollar agriculture sector business I have the job of trying to figure out how we make the transition from a traditional farming business, which has been New Zealand’s backbone for over a century, to a ...
Humans damaging the environment faster than it can recover
PostRadical action is needed to combat increasing rate of environmental damage to water sources, land, biodiversity and marine life, report shows. Degradation of the world’s natural resources by humans is rapidly outpacing the planet’s a...
Sustainable Protein : Healthy People & Planet | Event Summary & Key Learning
PostBlinc’s recent Sustainable Protein event, focused on how we ensure Healthy People along with a Healthy Planet, laid out the challenges in this complex area. What is clear is that we don’t have all the answers. It will be important as...
Impossible Foods Is Exploring Realistic Vegan Fish
PostImpossible Foods is widely known for its vegan “bleeding” beef-like Impossible Burger, available at major restaurant and fast food chains across the U.S, including Burger King. According to a new report from the company, Impossible F...
Speaker Profile: Bennie Hendricks
PostBennie is the Executive General Manager of Life Health Foods, and will be presenting at ProteinTECH 2019! Bennie will share insights on what is motivating New Zealand consumers to choose more plant based foods, drawn from new local resea...
Ikea to Roll Out New Vegan Swedish ‘Meatballs’ Starting This Fall
PostVegan diners awaiting Ikea’s new plant-based “meatballs” don’t have long to wait. Furniture giant Ikea is close to finalizing its new item, with in-store testing planned for this fall before a global rollout in summer 2020, manag...
How our addiction to big beef ended up ruining the planet
PostBeef produces more carbon than any other meat, yet we still can’t get enough of the stuff. But can drastic changes in how we farm and eat turn things around? Rebecca Cole didn’t have a typical childhood. Though she grew up in the 1970s...
The Better Base: using a plant-based diet to combat disease
PostCould Nelson become a Blue Zone, with one of the healthiest populations on Earth? With a bit of encouragement, Nelson pharmacist and plant-based whole food enthusiast Hannah O’Malley hopes we can. The famed Blue Zones are based on a 200...
Speaker Profile: Hazel MacTavish-West
PostFrom bleeding to nut-based “fake meats”, from “mylks” to mycelia: the plant-based protein market is rapidly evolving, and predicted to be worth USD$5.2bn by 2020 (an 8.4% growth from 2015). Europe will represent 39% of that meat ...
Newshub taste tests new Burger Fuel Beyond Beleaf burger
PostAfter months of trialling different products, Burger Fuel thinks they’ve nailed it. The burger chain has launched their new Beyond Beleaf burger, containing one of the Beyond vegan patties which by all accounts looks, tastes, and smells ...
Fonterra’s Eltham expansion rolls out first batch of cheese
PostThe expansion of Fonterra’s Eltham site has reached a key milestone, with the first individually wrapped slices of cheese now coming off its new production line destined for supermarket shelves around the globe. The new line is part o...
Zero Carbon Bill: Five businesses on the road to a greener future
PostIt’s been a big month for environmental news. Earlier in May, the UN revealed the most comprehensive health update of our planet to date. The results were painful, yet unsurprising – one million species are at risk of extinction, th...
Auckland’s soft plastics to be made into fence posts
PostAucklanders will once again be able to recycle their soft plastics with new onshore processors giving bags and wrappers second lives as farming and gardening products. The Soft Plastic Recycling Scheme, run by the Packaging Forum, has se...
ProteinTECH 2019: Jeremy Hill will be presenting!
FeaturedJeremy Hill, Chief Science and Technology Officer for Fonterra will be joining us at ProteinTECH 2019. Jeremy will be covering the importance of complementary nutrition to sustainability of the food system. By 2030 there will be another ...
Fonterra dips hoof in alternative animal products
FeaturedFonterra has bought a stake in a Boston biotech start-up that wants to develop cow-free protein for use in products like cheese and drinks. But while the co-op says there’s room in its future for both dairy and “dairy-like” products, i...
Impossible Foods raises another $300 million
FeaturedImpossible Foods said Monday it has raised $300 million in its latest funding round. The company’s announcement follows the initial public offering of Beyond Meat. Its rival’s stock has surged 173% since its debut May 2. Impossible F...
Kiwi firm Craft Meat Company launches meat-free mince
FeaturedA Kiwi company has launched a meat-free mince in a bid to meet demand from people wanting to reduce their meat consumption. Dunedin firm the Craft Meat Company has developed a 100 per cent plant-based mince made from mushrooms, tomato, a...
ProteinTECH Speaker Profile: Nick Pyke
FeaturedNick Pyke is a Director at AgInnovate – a consultancy service provider for agricultural businesses. Their focus is onsupporting innovation through high quality applied research designed and undertaken to ensure the outcomes from research...
Commercial fishing takes an environmental toll
FeaturedThe Environment Aotearoa 2019 report, released last week, painted a grim picture of the commercial fishing industry. The pressure of commercial fishing had eased in the past decade, and most commercially caught fish came from stocks that...
New report signals nine top environmental issues facing New Zealand
FeaturedA new report shows the way we live and make a living is having a serious impact on our environment. Jointly produced by the Ministry for the Environment and Stats NZ, Environment Aotearoa 2019 outlines nine priority issues in need of att...
Guidance helps New Zealand organisations track their greenhouse gas emissions
FeaturedThis month, the Ministry for the Environment has released fresh guidance for businesses and organisations wanting to track their emissions. “In the last month we’ve seen both the Emissions Inventory and Environment Aotearoa reports r...
Animal Protein Alternatives: A Cleaner and Greener Outlook
FeaturedPossibly the oldest and certainly the most widely consumed food by humans is animal meat. Humans have bred livestock for consumption since time immemorial. Although the end objective of breeding remains the same – creating a source of ...
BurgerFuel launches plant-based beef burger
FeaturedBurgerFuel enters an exciting new frontier this week with the launch of their plant-based beef burger – the Beyond Beleaf. Utilising the next generation of meat-free protein alternatives, this 100% vegan cheeseburger containing a meat-...
Is It Meat? Is It Milk? – Who Cares What You Call It
FeaturedThe “future of protein” conversation has been, and will continue to be, a hot topic in agrifood tech. Investors have poured capital into the space, and media, both popular and industry specific, continue to cover it in great depth. A...
How fake meat captured the tech world’s imagination
FeaturedWhen Beyond Meat went public on the NASDAQ last week, investors expected the offering to be big — but no one predicted that the company would be valued at over $3 billion before the day’s end. In short, plant-based meat alternatives ...
Less beef, more beans – experts say world needs a new diet
FeaturedA hamburger a week, but no more — that’s about as much red meat people should eat to do what’s best for their health and the planet, according to a report seeking to overhaul the world’s diet. Eggs should be limited to fewer than about...
Burger King trialling new plant-based Whopper
FeaturedBurger King is trialling a new plant-based burger made from ingredients including soy protein, coconut oil and potato protein. The Impossible Whopper is being trialled in US city St Louis and customers have had their first taste of the b...
Cell-based shrimp startup Shiok Meats nets $4.6M in funding
FeaturedShiok, which means “delicious” in Singapore and Malay slang, is developing shrimp, crab and lobster products by using stem cells taken from the crustaceans and feeding the cells a nutrient mix. The company says the result is friendlier ...
Speaker Update: Hilary Pearson will be at ProteinTECH 2019
FeaturedHilary Pearson is a confirmed speaker at ProteinTech 2019 – See below for her presentation plans at the event! Hilary says no one at Freedom Farms considers themselves a farmer. But we care a whole lot about the future of food produc...
New Zealand faces up to its plastic problem
PostTonnes upon tonnes of plastic waste with nowhere to go — there’s no easy solution, but for one group of Kiwi businesses, simply doing nothing was not an option. Until earlier this year, even the most diligent recyclers may not have g...
Call for Environment Canterbury to be in vanguard of global change
FeaturedEnvironment Canterbury (ECan) is under increasing pressure to start a public fight to save the planet. The regional council is due to debate declaring a “climate emergency” at its meeting on May 16. But on Tuesday, even the council’s ...
Government action plan for good farming to improve water quality
FeaturedNew Zealand farmers and growers are be encouraged to have farm environmental plans under a new action plan launched by the Government last year. A farm environment plan would remain voluntary nationwide with the government still deci...
Speaker Profile: Grabbing life by the horns – Wayne Langford
FeaturedWayne Langford – Co-op Farmer and Founder of YOLOFarmerNZ, is confirmed to speaker at ProteinTech 2019. Wayne is dairy farmer from Golden Bay and when life got him down, he grabbed his wife and kids, jumped in the car and changed his l...
Farming in the Age of Disrupted Food
FeaturedAlternative proteins, plant-based diets, climate change, evolving animal ethics. Welcome to the disrupted food system. As Kiwi food producers, now is the time to ask hard questions about how we got here and where we go next. Let’s star...
Opening the farm gates
FeaturedMetaphorically speaking, dairy farmers have closed their farm gates in recent times for fear of criticism, but this now needs to change, says Federated Farmers dairy vice-chairman Wayne Langford. “The farm gates need to be opened again s...
Farmers must fight back now
FeaturedFarmers need to engage emotionally with their sector’s environmental critics, highlighting their links to the land, Fairlie Basin farmer Mark Adams told Beef + Lamb’s annual meeting in Timaru. “We can come across as entitled and de...
Phyllis Tichinin: Presenting at ProteinTECH 2019
Featured“It’s not the COW, it’s the HOW” Phyllis Tichinin is an Organic Dairy and Pastoral Group plant ecologist. She will be speaking on The Carbon Sequestration Aspects of Grazing Animals in NZ: The Consumer Demand and Human Health. Cons...
Honour the Microbes and don’t Kick the Cow
FeaturedWhy is it that one carrot just tastes ho-hum and another carrot seems to explode with flavour in your mouth? What’s going on? Aren’t they both just carrots? In short, your ‘wow’ response to the flavourful carrot is your body’s ...
Summit to address ‘dramatic changes’ in NZ agriculture
FeaturedThis year, the “Grow 2019,” farming conference will tackle some of the big questions about the future of food and fibre in New Zealand. The two-day summit, which was held in Christchurch this April, will look into some of the issues faci...
Speaker Profile: Lain Jager will be at ProteinTECH 2019
FeaturedLain Jager – A vision for the New Zealand Food and Fibre Sector. At ProteinTech 2019 he plans to touch base on how a finite biosphere and growing human population necessitates significant change in the global food production system. The ...
Alternative Proteins accepted in the U.S., China and India
FeaturedResearchers from the University of Bath, the Good Food Institute, and the Center for Long Term Priorities collaborated on the first quantitative comparison of consumer attitudes towards plant-based and clean meat across China, India, and...
The Meat of the Future? Slaughter Free and Environmentally Friendly
FeaturedMeat: one of the most discussed food topics of the last years. I’m not a doctor, neither am I a scientist, so I don’t have the appropriate skills to confirm or deny what the various world associations share daily about meat consumpti...
Guy Salmon: Confirmed for ProteinTECH 2019
FeaturedClimate change is a rising concern for our planet, come listen to Guy Salmon who is a confirmed speaker at ProteinTech 2019. See below for what he plans to talk about at the event: Guy is the executive director of Ecologic, a small think...
Alternative proteins research published
FeaturedBeef + Lamb NZ commissioned the study to better understand the shifts in food, food production technology and consumer trends and distinguish the hype from reality. The report shows alternative proteins are likely to become a major compe...
Alternative proteins an opportunity, not a threat
FeaturedAlternative proteins have been making the headlines recently, with some suggesting they pose a threat to New Zealand’s agricultural sector. ASB’s GM for Rural Business Richard Hegan spoke to The Country’s Jamie Mackay, saying he sees pot...
Rod Oram: MC for ProteinTECH 2019
FeaturedThe global food system will change radically over the next few decades. Its goal is to deliver more and healthier food while contributing to the revitalisation of the ecosystem. Quite simply, the issues are healthy food and healthy plane...
Barnett Sporkin-Morrison – International Guest Speaker at ProteinTech 2019
FeaturedBarnett Sporkin-Morrison is an Advisor from The Alternative Protein Show run by Olivia Fox Cabane across the United States of America. Barnett specializes in Agriculture economy, including consumer and producer decision making. He combin...
Food for thought at New Zealand AgriFood Week
Featured, PostThe future of New Zealand’s food story was shaped this month as thousands walked through the gates of this year’s New Zealand AgriFood week, in association with ASB. ‘Food for Who?’ is the theme of this year’s event which runs ...
Focusing on the need for farming change
FeaturedThe first woman to stand for director of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says she wants to transform how richer countries farm animals, though she kept clear of suggesting any decrease in the global herd, writes Eloise Gi...
Meet ProteinTECH 2019’s Keynote Speaker: Shama Lee
FeaturedShama is reimagining the food system with innovative engineering. Starting with meat, her breakthrough startup Sunfed uses clean technology to make delectable meat without the animal. Shama’s goal is to create healthy and nourishing end-...
Dairy boom has coincided with decline in water quality: rivers unsafe for swimming
FeaturedIt has been a classic summer in New Zealand: hot days, barbecues on the beach and lazy afternoon games of cricket. But dozens of beaches, rivers and lakes have been closed to the public owing to pollution from farming. According to a rec...
Is the future of meat animal-free?
FeaturedAdvances in cell culture research are moving the commercialization of clean meat closer to reality, potentially yielding significant benefits in the areas of food safety, food security, and sustainability. What is clean meat? And why is ...
Morning Star Farms will be 100% plant-based by 2021
FeaturedMorningStar Farms is making moves! The leading vegetarian brand, a subsidiary of Kellogg Company, just announced a landmark commitment to making their entire product line fully plant-based by 2021. The transition will effectively take 30...
Putting down new roots: Taupo Beef and Lamb shares progressive views from the paddock
FeaturedOur farming systems stand on the precipice of intense change. The task of how to feed a growing population that is set to reach 10 billion people by 2050 in the face of climate change, resource scarcity, and land degradation has forced i...
Alternative protein reports published
FeaturedThe Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) and Plant & Food Research have released their joint report: The evolution of plant protein – assessing consumer response. The report was commissioned to assess consumer responses to protein and...
Impossible Foods launching in Singapore
FeaturedFoodies in Singapore will soon have more veggie options to look forward to with the launch of Impossible Foods’ plant-based meat in March. Following an earlier launch in Hong Kong, the United States start-up late February announced the ...
Gordon Ramsay Adds Vegan Impossible Burger to His Menus
FeaturedSingapore is set to welcome another vegan meat product to its shores, Business Insider reports. The vegan movement in Singapore is growing. Late last year, it was reported that “vegan activities” in the island nation had increased by...
Meat that’s not meat: the impact of alternative proteins
PostRed meat consumption in New Zealand has fallen 57 percent in the last decade and companies like Air New Zealand have started offering meat free burger patties. But Plant and Food Research scientist Dr Jocelyn Eason told RNZ’s Sunday Morn...
Plant protein food developments accelerating
PostA new food technology conference in Auckland is focused on potential threats and opportunities from rapidly developing alternative proteins. The speed of change for other protein sources for food products is vital intelligence for local ...
Food battle brewing, but not on supermarket shelves
PostSince the year started, almost every week so far, we’ve seen media coverage announcing yet another new protein-based food product hitting supermarket shelves. While the stories are hyped by media portrayal of backlash from farming groups...
Science key to plant protein success
PostAn upcoming food technology conference in Auckland on alternative proteins for food production will debate whether it’s a market challenge or a massive new opportunity for local producers. Science leaders here say the changing global c...
Plant proteins and food exports: More depth to industry than meets the eye
PostTV news and social media highlight Impossible Burgers going global, and Vivera plant-based steaks are flying off Tesco’s shelves in Britain. True to form they have focused the public’s attention on threats to our agriculture exports....
Food technology and money speeding up change
PostAn upcoming conference in Auckland on alternative proteins offering consumers new food choices will include a debate on whether new plant-based proteins will disrupt traditional meat producers’ markets or simply bring more cheaper food...
100% plant-based steaks set to hit supermarket shelves
PostBreakthrough: Dutch company brings first plant-based steak to Tesco supermarkets Dutch food manufacturer, Vivera has just announced, as the first company in the world, it will bring a 100% plant-based steak to market. Vivera has already ...
Plant-based proteins growing faster than predicted
PostWhat do Millennials prefer on their plate? Will they eat … less meat … or meat-less meat? Meat-less meat here in New Zealand and in key export markets … What’s the trend? The speed of technology change in alternative proteins for...
Serious potential for food production changes with protein technology
PostThe speed of technology change in alternative proteins for food is now attracting increasingly positive comments from high profile leaders across the agriculture and food export sectors. A national conference in Auckland in July is set t...
New ProteinTECH conference is on the money
PostThe new conference, ProteinTECH 2018, is planned for July 2018, and it couldn’t have come at a better time. Synthetic meats and alternative protein sources are a hot topic around the globe currently, and the Innovatek team plan to open...
