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Vegetarianism

The cultured chicken dish prepared by chefs at 1880 restaurant was served to customers for the first time this past weekend.

Is Singapore’s approval of lab-grown meat a win for the climate?

The Big Fix

The global market for meat alternatives, which includes cultured and imitation meats, is currently at about $14 billion. But environmentalists doubt some of the claimed benefits.

A woman samples food from a spoon.

Meet Nigeria’s small but growing vegetarian and vegan community

Food
a vendor at a poultry market in India

The myth of a vegetarian India

Fania Lewando, a restaurant owner in Poland before World War II, wrote a Yiddish cookbook that reveals a vibrant Jewish vegetarian tradition.

Jewish vegetarians say you don’t have to make brisket for Passover — and they’ve got the recipes to prove it

Food
Kale Walch cooks a pan of "bacon," one of the meatless meats that he and his sister Aubry Walch (in the back) whip up for The Herbivorous Butcher. They're hoping to open what they say is the world's first vegan butcher shop in the spring.

A sister and brother dream of making the perfect vegan Spam

Food
Balloons released in South Korea

That’s some inflation. South Koreans float balloons filled with cash to the North

Global Scan

North Korean defectors in South Korea packed up balloons and sent them over the demilitarized in a bid to let their former neighbors know what it’s like outside of reclusive North Korea. That story tops today’s Global Scan.

Vegan lunch: Going meatless in Beijing

Environment

In a country where eating meat is considered a sign of prosperity, veganism is on the rise as more Chinese consider the environmental impact of what they eat.

In India, economic growth hasn’t led to food security

Business, Economics and Jobs

Millions of people in India go hungry every day. And it has long-lasting effects on physical condition and mental abilities. A reporter from Bloomberg News, of Indian descent, returned to the small village where his family is from and lived for two weeks on a typical diet there.

Indian for-profit soup kitchen

Business, Economics and Jobs

A restaurant in India serves free food to the poor, but manages to eke out a small profit, too.

The World

McDonald’s New Twist in Asia: Vegetarian-only Cuisine

Business, Economics and Jobs

McDonald’s has announced that this year it will be opening its first ever vegetarian-only restaurants near religious shrines in India.