Seafood

A new vegan seafood is on its way to the United Kingdom. The North Carolina-based Atlantic Natural Foods — which owns vegetarian protein brand Loma Linda — is gearing up to launch its fish-free “Tuno” to the British market. Loma Linda has produced sustainable plant-based foods for over a century —  it started operating in […]

Can you revolutionize the $120 billion seafood industry with plants? Good Catch Foods, a chef-driven, NYC-based food startup, believes that it can. “Our goal was to create a product that has the same texture, flavor, and nutritional value as real tuna – without harming our oceans and sea life,” says vegan chef Chad Sarno, co-founder […]

A tuna fish executive is blaming millennials who don’t own can openers for the decline of sales. The Wall Street Journal reports that the market for canned fish is struggling. Top brands including StarKist, Chicken of the Sea, and Bumble Bee are affected by the younger generation’s disinterest in purchasing their products. Andy Mecs, StarKist’s VP […]

One startup is working to create seafood that doesn’t impact the planet, our health, or the lives of marine animals, particularly, bluefin tuna. Bluefin tuna is classified as endangered by the World Wildlife Fund and the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, the world’s most comprehensive inventory of at-risk species. According to WWF, fishing practices have […]

A twenty-year-old aspiring entrepreneur and student in Berlin is on a mission to bring her vegan caviar to the world. Isabell Altmann has combined caviar and molecular gastronomy, which makes it possible to turn oil and syrup into the form of caviar, to create a plant-based version of the premium seafood product. She calls the brand Deli […]

Shark conservationist and established documentarian Skyler Thomas is calling not only for an end to seafood consumption, but for consumers to consider going fully vegan. Thomas made a name for himself after founding the non-profit White Shark Video, a site which turns research into film, back in 2009. He began creating educational films based on […]

A new report has revealed that Canadians might have been duped into buying and eating seafood that could pose health risks. Researchers took approximately 400 samples from retailers in Vancouver, Halifax, Toronto, Victoria, and Ottawa to produce the report. It found that 44 percent of fish had been incorrectly labeled as part of what was […]

National Geographic explorer, marine biologist, and oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle is urging people to eat less seafood and look to sustainable vegan alternatives instead. Speaking at The Good Food Conference in California last week, Earle discussed the future of seafood with Liz Specht, a Senior Scientist at The Good Food Institute. Drawing on her experience as a National Geographic […]