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Is Corporate Consolidation Leading to Higher Egg Prices?

Between December 2021 and December 2022, the cost of eggs more than doubled.

ReFED Launches New Tool to Track Funding Aimed at Food Waste

ReFED’s new tool allows users to follow trends in food waste reduction strategies and the financing that drives them.

Tea As A Catalyst For Social Change

Nepal Tea’s goal is to uplift one million people out of poverty in this generation.

Preparing Chefs for the Modern Culinary Industry

In order to succeed in the modern culinary and hospitality industries, Chef Daryl Shular says chefs must have business skills, understand the science of cooking, and advocate for sustainability.

Food Tech Startup Aims to Offer a More Sustainable Jackfruit-Based Meat Alternative

The Singapore-based food tech startup Karana Foods is working to support biodiversity and benefit farmers, consumers, and chefs, through a meat alternative made from jackfruit.

Is Fake Meat a False Promise? New Report Exposes the Politics of Alternative Proteins

The new Politics of Protein report by IPES-Food finds that fake meats “risk recreating the same problems of our industrial food system.”

The Coalition Fighting to Save Independent Restaurants

Chef and food advocate Tom Colicchio talks about the future of the hospitality industry and the changing culture of restaurants and explains why the issue of food waste is “low hanging fruit.”

Food Tank’s Spring 2022 Book List

Food Tank is rounding up 20 titles that celebrate ancestral farming practices, document the importance of marine ecosystems, introduce readers to new recipes, and more.

“To help the planet and the Earth, it’s all about connection,” says Adrian Grenier

Grenier’s new documentary series Earth Speed aims to show how both personal development and environmental innovations can contribute to a better world by connecting viewers to stories of the land.

Good for plate and planet: “The future has to be delicious”

According to Kamine, “if one out of every five pieces of chicken that we all ate was a Do Good Chicken, we’d solve food waste in the next five years.”

Vital Farms: “We’re aligned around something much bigger than selling eggs”

At the Future of Food @ SXSW, Jennifer Gregg says companies need to ask what crew members need and rally behind it, rather than telling them what they need.

JEDI Collaborative, New Hope Network Launch New Survey to Improve Diversity of Food Business Leaders

JEDI Collaborative and New Hope Network hope to use the survey results to inform efforts to make food businesses more inclusive, equitable, and just.

New Book Shows How To Build Resilient Restaurants

Recently released Ten Year Plan details the importance of having a long-term plan for restauranteurs to handle short-term crises.

Starbucks Employees Want Their Actual—Not Metaphorical—Seat at the Table

Starbucks workers in Buffalo, NY are fighting to unionize.

True Cost Accounting to Drive “the Biggest Change in Farming Since the Industrial Revolution”

The global population consumes about US$9 trillion of food each year, but the external cost of that food is more than double that—US$19.8 trillion.

Major U.S. Grocery Stores Step Up to Save the Bees, But Are They Doing Enough?

Some of the largest U.S. grocery stores are stepping up and taking action to protect bees from toxic pesticides.

19 Refugee-Powered Culinary Programs

These visionary chefs and activists creating programs and spaces for refugees to fuel their futures and their communities.

New Report Finds Consumers Are Increasingly Prioritizing Sustainability

A growing number of consumers want to see businesses adopt more sustainable practices.

How Sun & Swell Ditched Plastic for Compostable Packaging

Sun & Swell is distributing their organic food products in 100 percent compostable packaging and reusable jars, one of the first companies to do this on a large scale.

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