Miscellaneous
Bill Clinton on his diet: 'I might not be around If I hadn’t become a vegan'
No greasy fast food, here: Even when Bill Clinton is on the road he adheres to his plant-based diet. While campaigning in Las Vegas for his wife, Hillary, the former president popped into vegan cafe Simply Pure. Clinton was in great spirits, reports Politico, chatting with patrons and owner and Read More...
Africa’s big banks are betting on fintech startups and bitcoin to beat disruption
African banks have been late to the fintech party, but after leaving huge swaths of the population to get their financial services from telcos (most famously Safaricom’s M-Pesa in Kenya), banks here are increasingly seeing the continent as a testing ground for new financial technologies like Read More...
How athletes are going vegan and staying strong
I’ve been dancing since I was 3,” says Juliet Doherty, an 18-year-old ballerina. “When I was training, I was told protein, protein, protein all the time, but I would get so lethargic.” In an effort to increase her stamina, Juliet started eliminating meat from her daily menu Read More...
World's first vegan supermarket chain will open in Portland
Vegan products are usually relegated to a tiny section in conventional grocery stores, but Portland, Oregon will soon be home an entire vegan supermarket. Veganz, the first and world’s largest vegan grocery store chain, will set up shop in the famously crunchy city later this year. Along with Read More...
5 things you can do about food waste
Every year roughly 2.9 trillion pounds of food—about a third of all the food available—never gets eaten. A huge part of this is from crops left in the fields or food discarded during processing worldwide. In the United States and other countries with more advanced food delivery systems, Read More...
Suburbs embrace food scrap recycling to cut 15 percent of landfill waste
Cleaning your plate will take on a new meaning in some suburbs as food scrap collection grows in practice and popularity. The effort involves collecting food leftovers at the curb and converting them to compost as a way to reduce waste going into landfills. So far, food scrap collection programs Read More...
The moral case for cultured meat
Last Monday, the Wall Street Journal announced the creation of the “world’s first cultured meatball.” Memphis Meats, the startup behind the dish, revealed its ambitious plans to produce beef and pork using cell cultures. Per its name, the company plans to eventually debut their Read More...
NYC is on the verge of a vegan restaurant boom
New York City celeb restaurateur Ravi DeRossi is on a mission to turn all 15 of his bars and restaurants into vegan hotspots, Eater reports. And it’s all happening ASAP. DeRossi, who first made a splash in the city’s foodie scene with The Bourgeois Pig 11 years ago–and Read More...
Here’s how to solve world hunger
Tristram Stuart has 24 hours to produce a restaurant meal for 50 people—to plan a menu, gather food, then welcome guests to a venue in a city not his own. Complicating what sounds like a reality-show contest is a singular rule: Nearly all the ingredients must be sourced from farms and vendors Read More...
Neil Young is taking his campaign against Monsanto and GE crops on the road
Grammy Award-winning artist Neil Young has been a powerful presence in music for the past 50 years. In addition to his artistic career, Young has become a vocal advocate for social justice, working specifically to highlight issues that impact farmers and the food system. In 1985, Young joined Read More...