Vegan Brief August 31, 2026
A Singapore production run cut cultivated meat media costs 99%, pushing cultivated duck and beef under $50 a kilo with a credible path to $11.65 by 2030.
“We learned so much along the way, including just how hard it is to change consumer behaviour.”
“In a world where it is ingrained in our culture to eat meat at the centre of every dish, this habit was the hard one to break.”
“With a summer fuelled by wildfires and drought, continued climate migration, soaring food prices, food insecurity and linear, fossil-fuel-driven supply chains being disrupted, we need governments to look up, listen to science and act.”
A plant last seen in Sri Lanka in 1855 turned up alive this year, growing along a shaded riverbank in the Sitawaka Ganga valley. Researchers combined century-old herbarium records with habitat modeling, went looking in exactly the sliver of forest their models predicted, and found 70 to 100 individuals of Indianthus virgatus quietly surviving 170 years of habitat loss around them [78]. Small, unglamorous forest remnants did what no one expected: kept a species alive long enough to be found again.
Recipe of the day · It Doesn't Taste Like Chicken
This Easy Vegan Banana Bread is soft, moist, fluffy, and packed with sweet banana flavor. Made in one bowl with simple pantry ingredients, this foolproof recipe bakes up perfectly…
