With the world’s first commercial octopus farm set to open later this year, there are growing concerns that it could mark the start of the mass farming of these intelligent animals.

Swedish retail giant served food to over 500 million customers last year alone, and is now looking to ditch carbon-intensive dairy products and make 50 percent of its food plant-based to help lower its carbon footprint.

The new measure, which has advanced to the Senate floor, now focuses on the conditions under which the animals are transported to slaughterhouses.

Students at the prestigious university vote in favor of transitioning the campus to 100 percent plant-based catering, in a move to help lower the university’s impact on animals and the planet.

Fable Foods secured the multi-million dollar Series A funding round with support from the likes of ex-global CEO of KFC’s Yum! Brands and esteemed ethical philosopher Peter Singer.

The whaling company’s president hopes the ship will “pass on our whaling culture to the next generation”.

This startup has found a way to convert agricultural and wood industry byproducts, such as sawdust, into oil. The initiative has now received $1.2 million in funding to bring the product to market by 2026.

With 124 billion fish farmed each year, advocates are calling for new fish welfare legislation to help offer these aquatic animals some protections.

Human resistance to antibiotics is one of the biggest threats to global health according to the World Health Organization, and the medicine’s misuse in farmed animals is accelerating the problem. 

Looking for plant-based snack ideas for your Super Bowl celebration? Species Unite has got you covered! Here are a few of our favorite dishes, from vegan chicken to fully loaded nachos.

Cultivated meat - meat that’s grown in a lab from animal cells rather than from a farmed animal - could be a more sustainable solution to feed China’s population of 1.4 billion people.

Meati Foods opens a huge ranch to produce tens of millions of pounds of animal-free meat that’s made from mushroom root - as investors boost the brand with more than $250 million in funding. 

Popular vegan burger chain already has seven locations across the U.S., with its first drive-thru location set to open soon.

The company’s San Francisco office trials a 65 percent plant-based menu and makes oat milk the default in coffee, as companies increasingly encourage employees to choose more sustainable plant-based food options. 

The flock, some of whom were pregnant, were close to death when found by investigators and required urgent medical treatment.

Food tech company Project Eaden uses bio fiber technology to create its realistic whole cuts of vegan meat.

Never-before-captured footage of the secretive slaughter method shows caged and screaming pigs being lowered into underground gas-filled chambers to suffocate them, as vets, legal experts, and animal advocates call for urgent reforms to the meat industry.

A petition opposing the plans has attracted tens of thousands of signatures from Species Unite supporters.

History’s worst bird flu outbreak is continuing to wreak havoc on the egg industry with soaring egg prices and stock shortages. That puts JUST Egg - made from plants, not chicken eggs - in a unique position to meet consumer demand.

California-based company Climax already won the largest-ever seed raise for a food tech startup, and now their next-level cheeses are set to take on the $800 billion dairy market.