Eating meat comes with an enormous environmental footprint, with food systems responsible for an estimated 34% of global emissions. And yet, in most countries, meat consumption is continuing to rise. Our new study investigated whether meat consumption increases as income increases. We specifically tested if there’s a point at which improvements in GDP per capita...
From the farm to the plate, the modern day food system has a waste problem. Each year, a third of all food produced around the world, or 1.3 billion tonnes, ends up as rubbish. Imagine that for a moment – it’s like buying three bags of groceries at the supermarket then throwing one away as...
If you’ve ever wanted to try a burger made by a Michelin star chef you’re in luck. One of Australia’s largest burger chains, Grill’d, is giving diners the opportunity to do just that. Grill’d have teamed up with Australian alternative meat brand Fable Food and the king of gastronomy Heston Blumenthal to launch four plant-based burgers,...
Eggs laid by battery hens would be phased out within 15 years under a plan to improve poultry welfare in Australia. The proposal signals some relief for the 10 million or so egg-laying hens still kept in battery cages in Australia. But it doesn’t go far enough. Among the recommendations of an independent panel were...
According to the non-profit organisation behind the international campaign World Localization Day which promotes a systemic shift away from dependence on global oligopolies and monopolies towards decentralised, regional economies, the global food system is inefficient, unfair, unsustainable and unhealthy. “From climate change to species extinction, from pollution to plastics, the global food system is the...
An international campaign, World Localization Day, offers a new economic vision – broadly termed ‘localization’ – that can increase wellbeing and prosperity for the majority, while systemically reducing resource-use, emissions and toxic pollution. June 20 2021 marks the return of the international campaign, which aims to galvanize the worldwide localization movement into a force for...
Labels can be confusing. The terms permaculture, organic farming, and regenerative agriculture are a shift to natural methods of tending the land and you may have even used them interchangeably, but the fact is that each one represents a different approach to sustainable gardening and farming. If you’re still confused as to which refers to...
According to the CDC, obesity is one of the world’s most dangerous health conditions. As COVID-19 ravages the world, fat people are more likely to contract the virus and are also more likely to end up in the ICU. Weight and obesity-related ailments and diseases is second only to smoking as the most preventable cause...
An environmentalist and CPA-qualified accountant working in the not-for-profit sector, No Meat May co-founder Ryan Alexander gave up eating meat after a successful year of “meat minimisation”. Keen to make a positive difference to global food security, animal welfare and the natural world, Ryan, along with his partner multimedia artist and long-term ‘vego’ Guy James...
Dutch food business Schouten is releasing 100% plant-based, wheat-and-rice fish sticks this month in response to growing demand for fish substitutes as a result of Netflix’s eye-opening documentary Seaspiracy on the global fishing industry and its role in the declining state of the oceans. “We have noticed that the Netflix documentary Seaspiracy has made a...
A new meal delivery service has launched to make plant-based food a part of the average Australian diet – and without all the disposable plastic packaging waste. The brainchild of Faith Forster, who turned to a plant-based diet on the advice of a doctor after suffering from pregnancy-related diabetes which resulted in insulin resistance, Thank Fork is...
A new report 2020 State of the Industry: Australia’s Plant-Based Meat Sector reveals that Australian demand for plant-based meat products grew exponentially last year, despite the COVID-induced economic downturn. The report by Food Frontier, an independent think tank on meat substitutes, shows that retail sales increased by 46% in the year to June 2020, with manufacturing...