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Fix the Planet newsletter: The race to replace meat

13 January 2022

Meat is responsible for roughly twice the greenhouse gas emissions of plant-based food. Can we afford not to seek alternative sources of protein for our food?

Lab-grown meat now mimics muscle fibres like those found in steak

2 March 2021

Cow muscle cells have been persuaded to grow in long strands similar to muscle fibres that even contract, raising hopes that artificial meat could mimic steaks

Fifth of Brazilian beef exports to EU linked to illegal deforestation

16 July 2020

Around 20 per cent of the beef and soya the Euopean Union imports from Brazil has been linked to illegal deforestation in the Amazon rainforest and Cerrado savanna

Meat and dairy production emit more nitrogen than Earth can cope with

6 July 2020

Scientists have urged people to eat less meat and dairy after finding livestock farming singlehandedly exceeds “planetary boundaries” for nitrogen pollution

Lab-grown meat

30 March 2020

Thanks to advances in biotechnology, meat can now be produced without need for animals or farms. Although this cultured meat isn't commercially available today, it will be arriving on our plates within the next decade.

Cultured meat needs a lot more government backing – for all our sakes

19 February 2020

Lab-grown meat could change the world for the better, but relying on the free market to develop it is a recipe for disaster. Governments must step up

Driverless cars and the other biggest sci and tech fails of the decade

18 December 2019

Whether it was driverless cars, lab-grown meat or faster-than-light neutrinos, some things just didn't live up to the hype in the 2010s

African swine fever helps drive world food prices to two-year high

5 December 2019

The slaughter of half of China’s pigs due to the African swine fever virus raging across Asia and Europe has helped drive world food prices to a two-year high

Beef-eating consumers are helping drive Amazon deforestation

24 September 2019

An investigation of trade flows finds much of the recent Amazon deforestation is down to cattle ranching - and consumers around the world are eating the meat