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Plant-Based burgers are so 2019, 2021 is the year of Plant-Based Seafood!

Food scientists and marketers are creating healthy, plant-based, imitation tuna, crab, and shrimp that look and taste like the real thing. Better yet, switching to faux seafood will help curb our reliance on an international fishing industry that has become an environmental and human-rights disaster. The year 2020 has not been good to many things, but it has been very, very good to the tuna melt. As the world got weird and we sheltered at home, many of us hankered for the familiar, the stable, the uncool. And there was the tuna melt waiting for us, as uncool as ever. ...

To us, and probably to the general public as well, the developments of fish-free fish products have been overshadowed but the buzz around animal-free beef, chicken and pork with players such as plant-based Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat, and lab-grown meat pioneers Memphis Meats, JUST, Mosa Meat and others. During the last few weeks we’ve come across a surprisingly high number of animal-free seafood startups. We started asking around and realized that quite a lot is happening in the space, all over the world. To help people interested in the space, we thought it makes sense to share what we’ve found so far....

The Plant Based Seafood Co. makes a big splash with Mind Blown Coconut Crunchy Shrimp 2019-2020 SPIRIT OF INNOVATION AWARD WINNERSEDITOR’S CHOICE / MOST INNOVATIVE-DISRUPTIVEMIND BLOWN COCONUT SHRIMP / THE PLANT BASED SEAFOOD CO. Both personally and professionally, Monica Van Cleve-Talbert has been around seafood all her life. Yet admittedly, it was only recently that she began to “sea” food differently. ATTEND THE CEREMONY Here’s the backstory. Van Cleve-Talbert grew up around seafood as a family member-employee in The Van Cleve Seafood Co. in Spotsylvania, Va. The company dates back to 2001 when her mom, Shelly, opened a small seafood...