food science

Top Tweets
Indigenous Amazon land management
petrochemicals Texas
Europe struggles with energy transition
Harris shifts stance, backs domestic oil expansion amid fracking debate
supermarket aisle

Laila Benkrima: Ultra-processed foods are not only bad for our bodies, their production damages our environments

Ultra-processed foods are bad for our health and our planet and must be central to any efforts to reduce our carbon emissions, and waistlines.
Replace animal farms with micro-organism tanks, say campaigners
www.theguardian.com

Replace animal farms with micro-organism tanks, say campaigners

Advocates of plant-based protein say 75% of world’s farmland should be rewilded to reduce emissions
breadfruit climate food

Is breadfruit the climate change-proof food of the future?

As the climate continues to shift because of human actions, breadfruit could increasingly play a role in addressing global hunger, according to a paper published this month in the journal PLOS Climate.

In agriculture, a perennial problem with grains

In agriculture, a perennial problem with grains

Some researchers say Kernza will make the food system more sustainable; others doubt it will ever produce enough grain.
lab-grown meat tech

Upside Foods sues an ex-employee over secret lab-grown meat tech

A three-person team within the startup was tasked with developing top-secret tech. When a cofounder was fired, things started to fall apart.
milk climate microorganism
Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash

‘Cow’s milk without cows’ start-up raises $13m in seed funding

"Cow's milk without cows" will be in Israeli shops by 2023, after a start-up raised a record $13m (£9.7m) in seed funding from investors to help it make traditional dairy products from microorganisms.

food labels eco-labels

How green is your food? Eco-labels can change the way we eat, study shows

While food labels are nothing new, a different type that calculates the environmental cost has had a surprising effect on consumers.

ORIGINAL REPORTING
MOST POPULAR
CLIMATE