Have you heard the news? Starting today, companies in Europe can use house crickets (Acheta domesticus) as an ingredient in a variety of food items. 😳 The list of products targeted includes baked goods such as multigrain bread and rolls, crackers, breadsticks, cereal bars and biscuits, but also sauces, pizza, processed potato products, soups, chocolate […]

We are pleased to inform you about the re-design of the V-Label label designs. Benefits of the updated labels Thanks to visible and recognizable labeling, more than a third of the world’s population knows the V-Label. When scouting for dietary choices aligned with their values, seven out of ten consider products with V-Label healthier and […]

The Eco Valley Foundation successfully won an Erasmus+ grant fund in the category of Youth Workers’ Mobility last year. The project was entitled “Make Your Clothes – from Clothes through Disclosure to Inclusion”, which included 7 organisations and 21 youth workers. During the project mobility a total of 18 participants from 6 European countries visited […]

Marly Winckler, IVU chair and Dr Eric Slywitch, Director of the Department of Medicine and Nutrition announced with great pleasure the publication of the International Vegetarian Union’s Guide to Vegan Nutrition for Adults for healthcare professionals in its English version.  The Portuguese version, for healthcare professionals, was also released in February this year. Other versions […]

We are delighted to be partners in a new strategic partnership project that focuses on entrepreneurship, and which is supported by the Erasmus+ program and we have just had our first transnational project meeting. The meeting was held in Somogyvámos and we have chosen the Rádhé Resort Center as the venue for our guests’ accommodation […]

Plastic is poisoning life on Earth. It’s everywhere: in the rain, our food, even in the human placenta!  We have seen it choking life in the deepest oceans and on the highest mountains. Now, shocking studies are finding plastic pollution everywhere: in the rain, our food, our drinking water, even in the human placenta! It’s poisoning us […]

Matthew Glover is a serial entrepreneur whose investment business, Veg Capital, has supported some of the most exciting and disruptive brands on the market. His latest venture, VFC (Vegan Fried Chicken) encapsulates his energy and optimism about the future. But first, we wanted to touch on one of his most impactful social interventions –  Veganuary […]

The Smart Protein team has exciting news to share with you! A pan-European survey, published by ProVeg International, in partnership with Innova Market Insights, the University of Copenhagen, and Ghent University, as part of the Smart Protein project, has just been published and is available to download for free. Access the free report now! The pan-European survey has been published and analyzed in […]

Global food prices shot up nearly 33% in September 2021 compared with the same period the year before. That’s according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)‘s monthly Food Price Index, which also found that global prices have risen by more than 3% since July, reaching levels not seen since 2011. The Food Price […]

Billions of bees, butterflies, and beetles… are dying off, threatening ecological collapse. Toxic agricultural pesticides are among the key culprits, but now a European Citizen Initiative could get them phased out. One million signatures would force the EU to address our call, helping to save our bees from deadly pesticides. The insect apocalypse keeps unfolding – silently, […]