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| Fake-Meat Startups Rake in Cash Amid Food Supply Worries | Bloomberg |
| With meat-processing workers falling victim to COVID-19, shuttering plants and slowing supply, Americans are starting to see poorly stocked aisles where once beef and pork were plentiful. At the same time, the link between industrial meat production and deadly human viruses has become more widely understood. | |
| Jeff Bezos is pushing online grocery shopping as better for the planet. Is he right? | Grist |
| The coronavirus pandemic has transformed how Americans get our food. We’re no longer going to restaurants; we’re limiting our trips to the grocery store. Many of us are, for the first time, ordering groceries online. | |
| US food waste soars as job losses worsen amid pandemic | Anadolu |
| Crops destroyed, livestock euthanized as joblessness skyrockets and people question where their next meal will come from. | |
| ‘We Had to Do Something’: Trying to Prevent Massive Food Waste | The New York Times |
| Some producers acknowledge the efforts are “just a drop in the bucket” of what farmers can’t sell and are destroying instead. | |
| Coronavirus and hospitality: Robotics startup Karakuri navigates “tough times for restaurants” | The Verdict |
| One of the industries undoubtedly feeling the effects of the current Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic is the restaurants and hospitality industry. According to the Office of National Statistics, 79% of those furloughed in the UK due to the Covid-19 pandemic were from the food and accommodation industries. | |
| NAU and Purdue experts apply microbiome research to agricultural science to help increase crop yield | Northern Arizona University |
| The global demand and consumption of agricultural crops is increasing at a rapid pace. According to the 2019 Global Agricultural Productivity Report, global yield needs to increase at an average annual rate of 1.73 percent to sustainably produce food, feed, fiber and bioenergy for 10 billion people in 2050. | |
| Technology Is Tackling Some Of Agriculture’s Thorniest Issues | Asian Scientist |
| While farmers have always been subject to the vagaries of soil and seasons, they now face unprecedented challenges that threaten to radically alter the ancient art of agriculture. Food now flows into a supply chain network spanning the globe, with hidden dependencies and a tendency toward wild fluctuations in demand and supply. | |
| Tracing Global Meat Related Risks With Blockchain Amid COVID-19 | Coin Telegraph |
| To gain transparency and consumer safety, the food-processing and meatpacking plants are implementing blockchain technology to their operation services. | |
| The meat analogue: Rise of meatless options with rise of veganism | The New Indian Express |
| There was a time, not too long ago, when none of it was to be found in India. Now, boutique eateries and high-end supermarkets have begun to stock several varieties. | |
| Kellogg delays Incogmeato launch amid COVID-19 | Food Ingredients First |
| Kellogg has revealed that it is delaying its Incogmeato brand launch in light of the coronavirus outbreak. CEO Steven Cahillane flags that given the current situation, the company remains focused on supplying the market with food. | |
| Brexit planning serves Irish food industry well in tackling Covid-19 challenges | Irish Times |
| Ireland’s beef, dairy, seafood and spirits are much sought after the world over and exports of food and drink from our shores reached a record €13 billion in 2019, delivering 67 per cent growth in a decade. | |
| Frozen, fresh or canned food: What’s more nutritious? | BBC |
| Tinned and frozen fruits and vegetables tend to be seen as less nutritious than fresh versions. But that’s not always the case. | |
| Novameat Develops 3D-printed Pork Alternative to Feed Plant-based Meat Demand | The Spoon |
| Spanish startup Novameat announced today that it had developed a realistic plant-based pork product with the same texture as real meat. And it couldn’t have come at a more opportune time. | |
| How many potatoes does it take to feed Israel’s hungry children? | The Jerusalem Post |
| Tefilla Buxbaum, the English-language spokeswoman for Israel’s Yad Ezra v’Shulamit, told the Magazine that when she shares that statistic, people simply don’t believe her. Yet, according to Buxbaum, for a third of Israel’s children, approximately 800,000 of them, hunger is a daily challenge. | |
| Tens of Thousands of Healthy Pigs Being Killed Daily Amid COVID-19 Meatpacking Backlog | Associated Press |
| DES MOINES – After spending two decades raising pigs to send to slaughterhouses, Dean Meyer now faces the mentally draining, physically difficult task of killing them even before they leave his northwest Iowa farm. | |
| The Easy Peasy guide to growing your own greens | Daily Maverick |
| We are living in very strange times. Drought, fires, load shedding, ice floes, unemployment, coronavirus. The year isn’t looking like a very good one but there are signs of positive growth – urban gardening is trending in the wake of the worldwide Covid-19 lockdown. | |
| Nonprofit sees ‘unprecedented’ need for food, rental assistance | The Mercury News |
| The line outside of West Valley Community Services in Cupertino stretched down the block. Longtime volunteers and staff had never seen such a massive need for the nonprofit’s services. | |
| Commentary: We now know what’s ‘essential’; let’s act on it | The Washington Post |
| A month ago, they were called “service workers”: the people who prepare our food, deliver our packages, drive our buses, clean our offices and staff our nursing homes. Then, the coronavirus changed this country’s collective vocabulary. | |
| COVID-19 should push Congress to fix our flawed food system | The Hill |
| Before COVID-19 most of us took for granted that whatever we needed would be on grocery store shelves, whether we were looking for carefully budgeted staple items or ingredients for a special dinner. | |
| The Luxury to Fear COVID-19 | Counter Punch |
| El Salvador is showing very different faces. While some people herald its young president for his forceful actions as the savior of the country and even an example for Latin America, others denounce him for his disregard for Salvadorian law, the blatant violations of human rights committed under his regime, and his seeming aspirations as a populist, authoritarian leader. | |
| Coronavirus shows key workers need better pay and protection – here’s what has to change | The Conversation |
| The UK government message is clear: we are all in this pandemic together. Everyone is urged to stay at home and the businesses that are losing out from lockdown have been offered significant financial assistance. | |
| Let’s hope canned tuna recipes are more than just a coronavirus fad | San Francisco Chronicle |
| It’s been seven weeks since the Bay Area began to shelter in place in an attempt to stem the rising tide of novel coronavirus infections, and it’s clear that the world has changed irrevocably. The way we eat has shifted to something more private and more fraught. | |
| The Supermarket After the Pandemic | The Atlantic |
| The coronavirus will change grocery stores, and probably not for the better. | |
| Pantry panic and food waste: Tracing the roots of food shortage and waste in the time of COVID-19 | Stanford Daily |
| Toilet paper, sanitizer, baby wipes, water, rice, eggs — the list of “limit one” items at stores like Target and Costco continues to grow as panicked shoppers stock up on the “essentials.” Empty shelves, cleaned-out aisles and rising prices — the earliest symptoms of shortage — have become a familiar, often frustrating sight to consumers nationwide. | |
| Only The Poor Starve: Hunger In The Time Of COVID-19 | Counter Punch |
| In addition to the global health crisis and the coming worldwide economic collapse, Covid-19 is fuelling a humanitarian crisis. The World Food Program (WFP) warns that, “millions of civilians living in conflict-scarred nations, including many women and children, face being pushed to the brink of starvation, with the spectre of famine a very real and dangerous possibility.” | |
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