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Beyond Meat signed global supply deals with McDonald’s, KFC & Pizza Hut.
Bruce Friedrich, executive director of the Good Food Institute, said — “The world’s largest restaurant chains are placing plant-based meat directly on the plates of millions of customers around the world. Brands will bring plant-based meat onto the mainstream menus of millions of people. When these restaurant chains move, the entire food industry takes notice.”
The deal marks a significant development of Beyond Meat’s partnership strategy, as a result of which the company has launched limited trials in several foodservice networks across North America.
Pesticide ghosts from the past can haunt organic farms for the next decades.
Although the use of pesticides in agriculture is increasing, some farms have implemented organic methods and have avoided the use of fertilizers. But it is not clear whether chemicals introduced into the ground several decades ago can continue to affect soil health after the turn to organic management.
Now researchers have identified pesticide remains on 100 Swiss farms. Surprisingly, researchers found pesticides at all locations, including organic farms that had been converted over 20 years ago.
New research has found that farmers could reduce emissions by growing peas.
Researchers from the Scottish Village College found that while growing of leguminous crops is the most effective measure, providing an average of 553 kg of CO2-equivalent per hectare per year, It is also the most expensive variant with an average net cost of £406 ($560) per hectare per year.
Values are average estimates, with mitigation measures and net costs varying from farm to farm.
Nevertheless, the climate change researcher Vera Eori said that the study proposes key options for farmers interested in reducing greenhouse gas impacts. “Farmers are increasingly interested in opportunities to reduce their GHG impact, and this research highlights some key options they could implement either now or soon.”
Scientists can use CRISPR technology to help climate change.
Biotechnologist Karen Massel has published a review of gene editing technologies such as CRISPR-Cas9 to ensure food security in agricultural systems under stress due to extreme and volatile climatic conditions.
Her review recommended that CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing be integrated into current breeding programs to improve cereal yields. Such cereals as wheat, rice, maize, and sorghum supply two-thirds of the world’s energy consumption.
“Just 15 plant crops provide 90 percent of the world’s food calories,” Massel said. “The problem is that it takes too long for breeders to detect and make that genetic diversity available to farmers, with a breeding cycle averaging about 15 years for cereal crops. Plus, CRISPR allows us to do things we can’t do through conventional breeding in terms of generating novel diversity and improving breeding for desirable traits.”
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