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May 2022
Dear friends,
This month, Food Frontier revealed the program for the upcoming AltProteins 23 conference along with some of the local and international speakers that will be discussing the unique challenges and
opportunities in alternative proteins.
In local news, Australian plant-based meat producer Fenn Foods has achieved carbon neutral status for its entire business, setting a new standard for sustainable protein production in Australia and New Zealand. And in global news the Netherlands is now home to the world's largest cultivated meat facility.
Read on for more in alternative proteins below.
Food Frontier updates
AltProteins 23 program is live
Food Frontier is excited to share the program and initial speakers speakers from Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the US for the AltProteins 23 conference.
The full-day program spans everything from game-changing protein technologies on the horizon and consumer acceptance and education, to immediate scale-up bottlenecks across R&D, ingredients and production. Book your ticket today!
Welcome to our new Executive Director!
Food Frontier is pleased to introduce our new Executive Director, Dr Simon Eassom. Simon is an experienced leader, business executive, and strategic thinker and he has watched the emergence of the alternative protein market with interest as a consumer and futurist.
Simon brings his multidisciplinary background and business acumen to Food Frontier and looks forward to meeting stakeholders in the coming months.
Developments down under
Queensland plant-based meat company Fenn Foods - manufacturer of vEEF products - has been certified as completely carbon neutral, the first Australian plant-based meat manufacturer to do so.
Cultivated meat company Magic Valley was featured in a Good Weekend article about four food tech innovations to watch, and spoke to Food Navigator Asia about its pathway to regulatory approval.
The current capital raise from NZ plant-based meat company Grater Goods has attracted interest from numerous local farmers, who are keen to invest in the alternative proteins space while also producing conventional animal proteins.
- All G Foods spoke to The Drum about its unique marketing strategies, and was featured in an article in the Sydney Morning Herald about its forthcoming precision fermentation products (print only).
- Plant-based burger chain, Flave, has launched a catering service as it looks to help both businesses and individuals reduce their carbon footprint by offering them a more sustainable plant-based alternative.
- Plant-based meat from Fable Food Co is now on the menu at Fonda Mexican restaurants, giving guests the option to sub in Fable in place of any animal protein.
- Hong Kong plant-based meat brand OmniFoods has signed a distribution partnership with Entyce Food Ingredients, expanding their reach to retailers and foodservice operators and throughout Australia and New Zealand.
Global developments
Dutch cultivated meat company Mosa Meat has opened what is currently the world’s largest cultivated meat plant in the Netherlands, and is currently undergoing regulatory assessment in Singapore.
Precision fermentation company Remilk has received approval from the Israeli Ministry of Health, making it the first animal-free dairy protein company permitted to sell its product in Israel.
US based start-up Momentum Foods says its hybrid products will allow the company to reach price parity and and meet consumer expectations, with the products featuring around 90% plant-based ingredients and 10% animal based ingredients.
- After launching several plant-based dairy brands, French food and beverage company Danone has taken a minority stake in Imagindairy, an Israeli start-up making animal-free dairy proteins via precision fermentation.
- Israeli plant-based meat company Chunk Foods has raised US$15M with plans to enter the US foodservice market this year with its unique whole cut ‘steak’ produced via solid state fermentation.
- The British Alternative Proteins Association is calling on the UK Government to proactively support the alternative protein industry after new research found a strong appetite among English consumers for plant-based meat alternatives.
- Japanese plant-based food brand 2foods, which offers plant-based eggs and nuggets, has announced its US launch.
Who's hiring?
The employment opportunities continue to grow in the alternative proteins sector across Australia and New Zealand - check out the roles from:
Please share with your networks in case you know anyone suitable for these roles.
Why alternative proteins?
A new global survey of 7,500 adults has revealed that the climate impacts of industrialised meat production is still largely misunderstood by consumers. The survey, commissioned by sustainable food NGO Madre Brava, found that the majority of citizens in Brazil, France, Germany, the UK, and the US do not consider industrial meat production a leading cause of climate change.
In the five markets surveyed, industrial meat production was viewed to be a smaller source of emissions than cars or planes, even though animal agriculture accounts for a minimum 14.5% of all human-made emissions.
Madre Brava suggests the lack of awareness of the climate impact of industrial meat production is in part due to the media under-reporting on the matter, with analysis of top-tier news outlets in the US, UK and English-language EU media finding that only 0.5% of articles on climate mentioned meat or livestock as a source of emissions.
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– The Food Frontier Team
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