Animal Outlook's federal complaint against a California ranch, backed by video of goats and sheep left conscious for up to three minutes after their throats were cut, has pushed the operator to halt slaughter while the USDA investigates
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Animal Outlook's federal complaint against a California ranch, backed by video of goats and sheep left conscious for up to three minutes after their throats were cut, has pushed the operator to halt slaughter while the USDA investigates [100]
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A fully controlled crossover trial found a whole-food plant-based diet cut LDL cholesterol 17.9% in adults with a genetic high-cholesterol disorder, a population usually managed with drugs [4][32]
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Juicy Marbles launched coarse-ground vegan bangers with visible fat marbling, exclusive to Ocado in the UK, aiming past the smooth "hotdog" texture that's dogged plant-based sausage [78][96]
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A new poll found Iowa voters oppose the Save Our Bacon Act, which would nullify state pig and hen welfare laws, by nearly two to one [112]
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Beyond Meat hired a new COO as it braces for another quarterly sales decline, the latest strain in a brutal stretch for plant-based meat funding [57]
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C16 Biosciences launched a fermented cocoa butter made by precision fermentation, its first ingredient built for food after years supplying beauty brands [97]
17.9%relative drop in LDL cholesterol on the plant-based diet versus a standard American diet, in a randomized two-period crossover feeding trial [4][32]
50adults with genetically confirmed familial hypercholesterolemia, free of cholesterol-lowering medication, completed the trial [4][32]
Solid"The WFPB induced a clinically significant reduction in LDL-C relative to the SAD" (study authors, Nature Communications) [32]. A randomized, fully controlled crossover feeding trial in 50 genetically confirmed patients, with results the authors call clinically significant enough to reestablish diet as a frontline therapy.
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03▲Food & RecipesStory
Juicy Marbles launches butcher-style vegan bangers with visible fat marbling in UK
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“the superior eating experience kinda shocked us, and we had to move forward”
Try tonight: crispy pan-fried lentil burgers that pack 14 grams of plant protein per patty from little more than lentils, walnuts, and pantry spices [62]
Livekindly Collective agreed to acquire Dalco Food from Hilton Food Group for £5.4m ($7.3m), its second European plant-based acquisition this year after Greenforce Future Food [59][99]
Hollywood advocacy group Warren Underground, backed by Joaquin Phoenix and Kate Mara, is steering celebrity vegan campaigns toward food-system literacy after Gallup found US vegan identification stuck at 1% since 2012 [70]
New Mexico offered more than $100,000 in rewards after a father and son Mexican gray wolf, among the rarest mammals in North America, died in leg-hold traps set for coyotes on private land [67]
Innovation
ProVeg China and Jiangnan University drew more than 10,000 participants to a webinar series on China's technical bottlenecks in cultivated and microbial protein [98]
Upstream Biotechnology raised a seed round for gene-activation tech that boosts crop disease resistance without the yield penalty of defenses that run constantly [80]
Research & Nutrition
A meta-analysis found vegetarians had 13% lower total cancer incidence than non-vegetarians, and vegans 23% lower [9]
A meta-analysis linked healthful plant-based diets to a 21% lower dementia risk, and unhealthful plant-based diets to a 24% higher risk [17]
A meta-analysis of clinical trials found plant-based diets lowered C-reactive protein, though the researchers rated the certainty of the evidence low [10]
A randomized crossover trial found a plant-based meat-supplemented diet lowered TMAO, a cardiovascular risk marker raised by red meat, compared with a red-meat diet [11]
A survey of Indian consumers found cultured-meat acceptance tracked closest to animal-welfare ethics and perceived feasibility rather than "unnaturalness," diverging from Western studies [41]
Activism & Animals
PETA rescued parakeets Bonnie and Clyde from an Oklahoma breeder that crammed roughly 10,000 birds into one barn, prompting thousands of USDA citations [111]
Law & Policy
Danone's CEO named "Plant-based" among the platforms driving demand in Europe, alongside Skyr and Kefir, as the Alpro owner's first-half sales rose 3.5% [121]
One Good Thing
The Faaborg family raised pigs in Iowa, the country's biggest factory-farming state, for three decades, running a confined barn that held 1,100 animals at a time. One of those barns now grows specialty mushrooms instead, and Tanner Faaborg told the Guardian that working as a contract farmer for a meat company could "take a toll on your mental health." "If our family can do it, any family can do it," he said. The Transfarmation Project's Iowa hub opens its doors to visitors on August 8 [122].
These Easy Lentil Burgers pack a whopping 14 grams of plant protein into each patty! Meaty and savory on the inside, crispy on the outside, and made with budget-friendly…
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