$161 million for cell-based meats, coca-cola says consumers want plastic & what’s breast milk got to do with a Saudi prince?
In This Week In Food, an eye-watering $161 million round for cell-based Memphis Meats, coca-cola says people still want plastic bottles (um, okay) and why is a vegan Saudi prince investing in breast milk made from stem cells? All that and more below:
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New in Funding
- Noquo Foods Raises $3.6M to Make Plant-based Cheese That Actually Tastes Good
- Memphis Meats Raises $161 Million In Funding, Aims To Bring Cell-Based Products To Consumers
- Rockstart Closes €3M in Fresh Funding for Its First Agtech Cohort
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- What’s all the buzz around non-alcoholic beverages? (members exclusive)
- Takeaway.com and Just Eat delay listing after UK regulator begins review
- The eight hottest startups for vegan alternative food
- Davos 2020: People still want plastic bottles, says Coca-Cola
- Plant-Based Foods Are Hot, And They’re Only Getting Hotter
- Vertical Farming – Migros Basel and Growcer are launching a common project
- Just Egg folds into vegan grab-and-go breakfast market
- Glovo exits the Middle East and drops two LatAm markets in latest food delivery crunch
- Big Beer quickens pace of innovation as sales of iconic brews languish
- Out of the lab and into your frying pan: the advance of cultured meat
- Demand for spicy flavours is on the rise. Here's how you can benefit from it. (members exclusive)
- Beyond beverages: Harmless Harvest launches dairy-free coconut yogurt
- The world's biggest food company is now making vegan sausages
- Zomato buys Uber Eats India
- Why is a vegan Saudi prince investing in breast milk made from stem cells?
- Vegan burgers outsell normal burgers at Leon as plant-based food surges in popularity
- I eat only strangers' leftover food – and it's the best diet I've ever had
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4 年Thanks for the updates Arman Anatürk ! Being right in the middle of rethinking our juice containers I must say it is indeed hard (but not as hard) to make a difference and move to organic or more ecological bottles. We use PET and except the price increase rPET is an easy and big move already (so it’s not about revenue decrease but costs increase that Coca Cola wants to avoid with this easy step). Now when it comes to organic bottles (for example sugar cane bottles) indeed the consumers are not ready. We tried and tested it at Fit 'n' Tasty . Some other brands in France like Yumi even got fined by France recycling département because their organic bottles were still thrown in the PET trash and was ‘ruining my the recycled plastic quality. In Switzerland, Vitalay tea has made the step but I believe the lack of information makes people still clueless about where to throw the bottle. I still think that at triage of compost trash, this bottle would still raise eyebrows.. so now what? The change has to be made country wide with the support of not only the producers but the state itself.