KEVIN WHITE: Israeli food tech company Redefine Meat has confirmed it will launch its range of 3D printed vegan meat alternatives in the UK before the end of the year. The alt-meat business – which launched its range into selected Israeli restaurants and hotels today – said its lineup would hit the same channels in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands by the fourth quarter of 2021. A second phase rollout into retail and DTC was planned for 2022, it added... The Tel Aviv-based company’s range includes what it is describing as the “world’s first” 3D-printed premium restaurant-style burger; an…

ERICA BUIST: Spain may be famous for its love of meat – but sanctuaries across the country are coming to the rescue of its doomed cows, bulls, pigs, sheep and geese... Fundación Santuario Gaia and El Hogar are two of about 20 animal sanctuaries in Spain where vegan activists dedicate themselves to rescuing animals, creating a place where they can live without being put to work or slaughtered. The employees and volunteers spend a huge amount of time in each other’s company. Some might call it intense: they live and work together, cook and eat together, and there are leisure activities such…

MARK SMITH: It is groundbreaking, unusual, and it might change the world – but even with global companies like Nestle now wanting a slice of the non-meaty, lab-grown pie, the question remains: would you eat it? Some people expected it to be softer. Others thought it was intense but not that juicy. And one person said he missed the fatty bits. All in all, the reviews for the world’s first hamburger grown in a laboratory, rather than taken directly from a real-life cow, were mixed... But it was definitely the start of something and the consequences of that first tasting of a lab-grown burger…

MEGAN POINSKI: In 2021, the poultry battle royale is over plant-based chicken. The two leading plant-based meat companies, Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods, both said this month that they are launching new chicken products. Beyond Chicken Tenders were launched at about 400 restaurants nationwide on July 8. And the next week, Impossible Foods told Bloomberg it would be debuting chicken nuggets this fall. Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods are two of the latest entrants to a category that has been showing enormous growth in recent years — and is sure to continue to climb. According to…

NEWS.COM.AU: A controversial vegan activist who has gained notoriety for antagonising diners with her animal rights protests says she has been banned from entering her home state of Western Australia. Tash Peterson, 27, relocated to Melbourne last month after she was banned from every licensed venue in Western Australia following a string of protests in pubs and restaurants in which she criticised patrons for their food choices. She applied for a travel permit to return to Perth for a magistrates court appearance in August but the application was denied, she told her followers in a Facebook…

MATTHEW ROZSA: Mink farms, and the industry at large, is at something of a crossroads. The genetics of mink, and the close quarters they share on such farms, meant that they became a hotbed for the SARS-CoV-2 virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic. Largely out of the public eye prior to the pandemic, mink farming became front-page news this year following stories of outbreaks and mass cullings. Yet for decades prior, animal rights activists opposed mink farming — both because of the inhumane way that the animals are treated and because of the seeming immorality of slaughtering animals…

INDIA.COM: Every year, several animals are beheaded to mark the Islamic Eid Al-Adha... Muslims sacrifice domestic animals (camel, goat, sheep, buffalo, bullock or ram) in remembrance of Ibrahim's willingness to sacrifice his only son to please Allah. However, upset by the practice, many activists and animal lovers are now protesting the slaughter of animals and urging Muslims to have a Green Eid. One of them is a 33-year-old Muslim man, Altab Hossain from Kolkata who began a 72-hour-long fast on Tuesday night to protest against animal sacrifice. In a social media post, he explained how he…

ERIC KIEFER: Momentum is gaining for a farm reform bill that would "transform a broken system" dominated by multi-national meatpacking companies and factory farms, U.S. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey says. On Tuesday, Booker, a Newark resident, reintroduced legislation that he says will "create a level playing field" for independent family farmers across the nation. According to Booker, among others, the Farm System Reform Act would: Place an immediate moratorium on new and expanding factory farms (also known as CAFOs), and phase out the largest by 2040, old corporate integrators responsible…

GREATER BOSTON: Is the idea of ethical meat consumption a fraud? That question is explored in “The Last Pig,” which chronicles a former livestock farmer who became vegan. The subject of the film, Bob Comis, and the filmmaker, Allison Argo, joined Adam Reilly on Greater Boston to discuss. “I grappled with the ethics of raising animals for slaughter from the very first two pigs that I raised,” Comis said about his journey to becoming vegan. “It was a gradual process that ended up in a precipitous fall off of a cliff because I had a more or less mystical experience one morning with the pigs…

CHRISTINE BURNS RUDALEVIGE: “Meat Me Half Way” is an 80-minute investigative documentary scheduled for release on Tuesday. The film explores the tiny islands of common ground that could exist in the gulf between vigilant vegans and overcommitted carnivores if the two groups took a moment to listen to each other... With “Meat Me Half Way,” I really have no idea how this story will play out as the issues surrounding meat-eating are both national in scale – industrial meat production emits huge amounts of greenhouse gases – and as highly personal as what you choose to eat for dinner. Given that…