Author Archives: Kat Smith

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How America Became a Trash Nation

Is buying zero-waste better?

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The ‘Plant Kween’ Christopher Griffin on Plants, Self-Love, and the Planet

Christopher Griffin, who goes by the "Plant Kween" on Instagram, chats about their first book

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Vegan Cooking Competition ‘Peeled’ Debuts This Summer

"Peeled" will pit professional chefs against each other in the name of charity.

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Barack Obama Hosts New Netflix Series About National Parks

Barack Obama is the executive producer and host of Netflix's new docuseries about some of

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Natalie Portman Helps Startup Raise $12 Million to Mimic Animal Muscle

Tender Foods, a startup founded by Harvard engineers, “spins” plant proteins into muscle-like fibers that

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The Plant-Based Meat Market Is Getting Litigious

Impossible Foods has sued food technology company Motif FoodWorks claiming that the start-up’s new heme

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Investors Are in Love With Cultivated Meat and Fermentation

Investments in plant-based meat fell, but cultivated meat and precision fermentation attracted more money than

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Kroger and Impossible Foods Are Working Together

Kroger and Impossible Foods will develop plant-based meat for the supermarket chain’s meal delivery kits.

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Can Food Giants and Vegan Brands Really Be Friends?

Kraft Heinz could make vegan Macaroni & Cheese developed using AI thanks to a new

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Is the Plant-Based Vaccine Vegan? No. But You Should Still Get Vaxxed.

Covifenz, a new plant-based COVID-19 vaccine, was approved for adults in Canada.