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These plant-based shrimps have the taste and texture of traditional seafood! Vegan seafood lovers, this one’s for you! Fall in love with shrimp again with these plant-based crustaceans. Made with vegetable-based starches and flavored with seaweed-derived ingredients, these seafood alternatives pack the taste and texture of real shrimp. Ready to give these cruelty-free sea creatures a try? Check out our list of the best vegan shrimp brands and get cooking! All Vegetarian All Vegetarian offers a wide variety of plant-based meat, poultry, and seafood options including cruelty-free shrimp. The bite-sized seafood alternatives are made with ingredients like modified starch, pea and seaweed...

As people consider environmental implications to eating seafood, a host of vegan options are ready to swoop in. When Netflix's controversial documentary Seaspiracy premiered in March, essentially touting the claim that all fish is unsafe from an environmental and labor perspective, Google searches for “vegan fish,” more than doubled as people learned they may need to find a truly sustainable alternative to their favorite seafood. Plant-based sausage, vegan chicken, and meat-free burgers are no longer so hard to imagine—so much so that many have become everyday staples in home and restaurant kitchens, but vegan seafood is only just starting to...

Each year, more fish are killed for food than all other animals combined. Scientists have proved that fish are smart, complex animals who feel pain, practice cultural traditions, and have cognitive abilities that often match or exceed those of their fellow vertebrates. In the fishing industry, these animals are subjected to extremely painful deaths—they’re impaled, crushed, suffocated, cut open, and gutted, often while still conscious. Commercial fishing is also a major contributor to ocean pollution—an estimated 46% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch composed of fishing gear. In response to the unsustainable, inhumane practice of killing ocean animals for food,...

The plant-based seafood segment is moving far beyond soy and corn-based substitutions and can now offer seafood lovers the same taste and experience as the "real thing", according to Monica Talbert, CEO of the Plant-Based Seafood Co*. Monica Talbert comes from a family of seafood lovers who spent nearly 20 years creating and selling award-winning seafood products. Monica Talbert (r) and her mother After witnessing overfishing and ecosystem challenges posed by the traditional fisheries industry first-hand, she decided to offer plant-based alternatives to the daily catch, hoping to spur meaningful change in the industry and be part of the solution....