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Shell to Blast Shock Waves Through Whale Breeding Ground
Activists have launched a last-chance attempt to stop Royal Dutch Shell from performing seismic tests to search for oil in vital whale breeding grounds along South Africa’s eastern coastline.
7 Festive Vegan Recipes You Should Try This Year
Fill your table with delicious, flavor-packed vegan dishes this holiday season with these recommended recipes from some of our favorite plant-based chefs.
Fungi is Changing the Future of Leather
The vegan leather alternative is praised as a more ethical and sustainable material to its animal counterpart.
Scientists Discover Red Algae Can Make Meat-Free Burgers ‘Bleed’
As appetite grows for more sustainable proteins, a marine ingredient start-up has found an innovative use for red algae, which they say can be added to plant-based burgers and steaks to replicate an authentic ‘bloody’ juiciness.
World’s Largest Slaughter-Free Steak Revealed
Composed of cultivated real fat and muscle cells, taken from tissue samples that were painlessly obtained from a living cow, the steak weighs in at nearly 4oz.
ELLE Bans Fur From All 45 Magazines Worldwide
The international fashion and lifestyle magazine is the first major publication to ban fur across all of its editorial and advertising, signaling the fur-free future.
Vegan Meat Brand Impossible Foods Raises $2 Billion Investment
Investors around the world continue to show a big appetite for planet-friendly alternatives to meat, as Impossible Foods’ latest funding round alone raises nearly $500 million.
Pet Food Giant Partners With Alt-Protein Leader to Produce Cell-Cultured Meat for Cats and Dogs
The pet-food market is set to be transformed over the coming years as companies re-imagine food for our companion animals in more sustainable and healthy ways.
$1 Million Prize To Accelerate Future of Cultivated Meat Announced
The global competition hopes to encourage innovative and collaborative research programs to advance the cultivated meat sector.
Danone to Spend $49 Million to Convert Factory from Dairy to Plant-Based
The food giant aims to increase its global plant-based sales to US$6.1 billion by 2025.
Octopuses, Crabs, Lobsters, and More to be Recognized as Sentient Beings Under UK Law
The science that decapods and cephalopods can feel pain is now irrefutable after a new study reviewed hundreds of scientific papers on pain reception among the invertebrate groups.
3D Printed Vegan Meat Cuts Launch in Restaurants
Redefine Meat brings to market what was previously considered technologically impossible: commercial-scale whole cuts of plant-based meat.
World’s Largest Animal Protein Producer, JBS, Invests $100 Million in Cultivated Meat
“The acquisition marks the company’s entry into the cultivated protein market,” JBS said in a statement.
Starbucks Trials Alt-Milk From Startup Perfect Day
Perfect Day produces real cow’s milk without using actual cows through a process called microbial fermentation.
Thousands of Farmed Animals Killed By Canada Floods
“Terrible, terrible disaster” strikes British Columbia as heavy rainfall leaves hundreds of farms submerged underwater.
The Very Best Vegan Boots for Everyone on Your List
From apple leather to cozy faux-fur, we’ve rounded up all of the cruelty-free, fashionable boots from the 2021 Species Unite Buy Better gift guide so that you don’t have to.
Whole Foods Customers ‘Misled’ Over Animal Welfare Labels
The retailer is among those accused of ‘humane washing’ its meat products, as study finds high-welfare labels don’t require farmed animals to have access to the outdoors and allow farmed animals to undergo genetic modification and suffer physical mutilations.
360 Beagle Puppies Bred for Experiments Found Dead at Breeding Mill
The investigation draws attention to the extreme abuse inherent in the animal experimentation industry.
“Catch of Tomorrow”: TIME Magazine Declares Vegan Tuna One of the Best Inventions of 2021
The plant-based tuna that looks and tastes as good as the real thing is named as one of the key innovations set to change the way we live.
Huge State-Of-The-Art Cultivated Meat Factory Opens in the U.S.
UPSIDE Foods’ new, $50 million facility is capable of producing up to 50,000 pounds of meat per year.