Breeding Sows Trapped in Iron – NZ’s Dirty Secret Behind ‘Clean and Green’ Pork
Did you know New Zealand still cages its breeding sows - mother pigs, literally. Behind the “clean green kind” image sit iron bars where breeding sows cannot even turn around.
14 hours ago1 min read
NZ’s Wonky Box Takes On Kiwi Supermarket Cartel
When two corporate giants control 80% of New Zealand’s grocery market (Woolworths & Foodstuffs) , even carrots start looking like currency. Enter Good Groceries by Wonky, the cheeky, pragmatic new move from Wonky Box, already famous for rescuing “ugly” fruit and veg. Now they’re expanding into butcher-quality protein, refillable dry goods, and traceable staples, taking direct aim at the duopoly that’s left Kiwi shoppers paying some of the world’s highest grocery prices.
16 hours ago1 min read
Fable Bridges the Hybrid Meat Divide
Australian based, Fable’s hybrid meat gamble as shiitake beef lands in the belly of the beast.
In a bold move that’s raising eyebrows across the future food landscape, Fable Food Co has crossed the plant-animal line with its new shiitake-infused beef range, now launched through Central Market in Texas, the beef capital of the United States.
20 hours ago1 min read
Australia's NSW Bets the Farm on Plant Protein
Australia's New South Wales Government just dropped its playbook for the next wave of regional manufacturing and it’s all about plant protein. With a glossy new prospectus aimed at luring investors and food manufacturers out of Sydney and into the bush, this is more than a feel-good sustainability pitch; it’s a calculated move to turn 4,500 existing food and beverage businesses into a network powering the global plant-protein boom.
2 days ago1 min read
Israeli-based Redefine Meat Lobs into ASDA’s Freezers
And there it is, another line between “NextGen Food” and “everyday grocery” blurred beyond recognition. Israeli alt-meat innovator Redefine Meat has officially landed its bio-printed “New-Meat” range inside ASDA UK, pitching itself not as a vegan option, but as an upgrade to real meat. Seven products, from Pulled Beef and Lamb Kofta Mix to Flank Steak, are rolling into freezer chests nationwide.
3 days ago1 min read
Alt.Protein 25 The Taste of Change - Fat, Fear and NextGen Food
The Alt.Protein 25 Conference has just wrapped up in Sydney, Australia. Definite trends have emerged showing a clear move from planet-saving branding rhetoric to pragmatic innovation, where health, taste, and trust now drive the next phase of the NextGen Food future.
3 days ago1 min read
Is Made & Grown Australia’s Next Alt.Protein Play
Alt.Protein 25 conference trend emergence as Australia’s bioeconomy has entered its NextGen Protein moment. This new white paper by Cellular Agriculture Australia and ANU reframes food biotechnology as not just an economic lever, but a national security imperative. It argues that food sovereignty, via precision fermentation, plant molecular farming and cell cultivation, must be treated as strategic defence infrastructure.
3 days ago1 min read
Next-Gen Proteins From Fungi to Microalgae, 2026 Gets Real
Next-gen proteins are shifting from hype to habit. Mintel’s 2026 outlook says consumers are moving beyond “maxxing” single macros to diverse, functional diets - think fungi, microalgae, mung bean and hemp - folded into everyday eating alongside fibre-as-armour and microbiome-friendly formats. In short, protein and fibre go mainstream, variety becomes the new virtue, and APAC’s naturally fibre-rich cuisines start teaching the West a few tricks.
4 days ago1 min read
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