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You’ve probably heard a lot about the new plant-based foods — meatless beef and poultry and dairy-free milk, for example, but most people don’t know much, if anything, about them. In fact, the first time you heard about them, you might have said “Forget about that. If
Continue Reading Plant-based meat, dairy and eggs: A game changer or a flash in the pan?
The Center for Food Safety is challenging the FDA’s approval of a color additive used to make Impossible Foods’ plant-based burger appear to “bleed” like real meat. The advocacy group claims that the FDA’s decision was not based on “convincing evidence” as required by regulation.
In a brief filed Jan.
Continue Reading Lawsuit challenges FDA approval of additive that makes Impossible Burger ‘bleed’
Have you ever eaten a dinosaur before?
Turns out that a lot of kids, and adults, have thanks to Perdue Farm’s “Chicken Plus” nuggets that are shaped like dinosaurs. But more notable than their shape is what’s inside. Each one of these “tiny giants” is made from a 50/50
Continue Reading ‘Flexitarians’ drive meat-vegetable hybrids toward more marketshare
If you want to see a lot of people become unhinged, try floating this: why not include meat alternatives such as plant-based burgers to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommended foods? Especially, since the recently released report from the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee extols the health benefits of
Continue Reading Should fed’s dietary guidelines recommend plant-based meats?
The Center for Food Safety has asked the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to review a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decision to approve soy leghemoglobin as a color additive for use in ground beef analog products. The advocacy group claims that the FDA’s decision was not based on
Continue Reading Approval of genetically engineered soy protein for ‘Impossible Burger’ challenged
A non-profit consumer group is pushing for the FDA to push back on retail sales of raw “Impossible” burger products, saying the agency is erring on the side of big business rather than public health.
In a letter to a top official at the Food and Drug Administration, as
Continue Reading Group wants FDA to act against alleged illegal sales of Impossible Burgers
Missouri was the state where for a time it seemed a compromise was possible on labeling real and artificial meat. But that “Missouri compromise” fell through and now U.S. District Judge Fernando Gaitan Jr. has come down on the “real meat” side.
The trial court judge has ruled against the
Continue Reading Federal judge allows Missouri to enforce meat labeling law
