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Made from plants: Products that look, taste and feel like meat include smoky bacon and biltong. Photos: Delwyn Verasamy
ANNEKE MALAN

There’s a place for the herbivore at the braai

There may not be a lot of South African vegans, but it seems many still want a taste of the plant-based life

  • Sarah Smit
8 min read
Local plant-based food pioneer has been drawn into a dispute with the department of agriculture, which has a beef with how meat alternatives are labelled
AUSTRALIA

What’s the beef: Government tussles with plant-based Fry’s

The Local food pioneer has been drawn into a dispute with the department of agriculture, which has an issue with how meat alternatives are labelled

  • Sarah Smit
5 min read
Taste of things to come: The Beyond Burger at a café in Greenside, Johannesburg, looks and tastes like meat, but is made of plants. The manufacturer, Beyond Meat, listed on the Nadsaq earlier this month. (Oupa Nkosi)
BEYOND MEAT

Beast-free burgers are on a roll

Pioneering food firms are winning over fast food fans with meat alternatives – and even the beefy SA market is starting to bite

  • Lynley Donnelly
7 min read