15:49 mins
Synopsis: The Straits Times analyses the beat of the changing environment, from biodiversity conservation to climate change.
Singapore has become the first country to approve the sale of a cultured meat product chicken bites by Californian start-up Eat Just. They will be available from Dec 18 at 1880, a private members’ club at Robertson Quay.
In this episode, ST’s environment correspondent Audrey Tan and climate change editor David Fogarty chat with Ms Elaine Siu, managing director of The Good Food Institute Asia Pacific, on the case for alternative proteins.
They discuss the following points:
Why cultivated meat products are a “good food” (1:47)
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Vietnam could grow key ingredients for plant-based meat
By Ryan Huling December 12, 2020 | 10:00 am GMT+7
Vietnam already has a well-deserved reputation as an agricultural powerhouse, but a recent public shift towards healthier and more sustainable meat alternatives which has accelerated amid the Covid-19 pandemic may mean that local producers are now serendipitously sitting atop some of the world’s most desirable ingredients.
Ryan Huling
In a groundbreaking new report titled Asian Cropportunities released this week by The Good Food Institute Asia Pacific, my colleagues and I outline how rising fears of animal-borne diseases and demands for natural products stand to specifically benefit producers of certain raw materials in the Asia Pacific region. The report also makes clear that while most eyes in the business world are on Asia for the sheer size and growth rate of its domestic consumption, that this conventional line of thinking buries the lede. Even bigger opportuni