Cultivated meat company UPSIDE Foods, based in Berkeley, California, served cultivated chicken sandwiches during the Indianapolis 500 event on Sunday. This

We speak to future food investor Christian Nagel, co-founder and partner at Earlybird Venture Capital, about alternative proteins and the venture capital landscape.

“Private funding alone will be insufficient to fully fund first-of-a-kind cultivated meat facilities,” says the GFI in a new report.

The FoodTech 500, an annual ranking by Forward Fooding that showcases agrifoodtech startup and scaleup companies working to create a better future of food,

UPSIDE Foods, a cultivated meat company based in Berkeley, California, has confirmed recent workforce reductions, citing a strategic restructuring aimed at

Mississippi has become the third state in the United States to enact a law prohibiting the manufacturing, sale, or distribution of cultivated meat. Governor

Cultivated meat pioneer UPSIDE Foods has engaged in fresh layoffs in a bid to extend its runway as it expands its facility in California.

Three states have now passed legislation making it illegal to manufacture, sell, or distribute cultivated meat.

Mission Barns has earned FDA regulatory approval to sell cultivated pork fat in the US, with its meat products set to launch at Sprouts and restaurant group Fiorella.

Mission Barns has FDA approval for cultivated fat and is now finalizing retailer and restaurant partnerships for a small-scale US launch.

Meat industry groups are speaking against state bans of cultivated meat citing government interference on free trade and emphasizing food safety

We speak to future food investor Heather Courtney, general partner at Alwyn Capital, about alternative proteins and the venture capital landscape.

A bill introduced in the Georgia House of Representatives aims to impose new labeling requirements on plant-based and cell-cultured meat products in the

A legislative committee in South Dakota has put forward a bill that would ban the manufacture, sale, and distribution of cultivated meat in the state.

AI-based research is developing new solutions for the table.

We speak to future food investor Stephanie Dorsey, founding partner at E Squared VC, about alternative proteins and the venture capital landscape.

In our weekly column, Future Food Quick Bites, we round up the latest developments in the alt-protein and sustainable food industry.

Cultivated meat producer UPSIDE Foods, in partnership with meat distributor Pat LaFrieda, advances its mission to integrate cultivated chicken formats — like UPSIDE’s shredded chicken and chicken sausage — into familiar recipes and cultural traditions, leveraging LaFrieda’s restaurant network to integrate UPSIDE’s products into consumer’s existing habits.

With Donald Trump returning to office, 2025 could be a bumper year for cultivated meat bans in the US – here are the countries that could benefit.

It has been a big year for the future food sector. These are our editor’s picks of the 10 best stories on Green Queen in 2024.

Foodtech founders in this capital environment are beating their heads against the wall, says Paul Shapiro. But deals are still getting done

Here’s how plants, cells, and microbes could help clean up emissions from agriculture.

Discover how cultivated meat evolved from a futuristic concept to an emerging reality poised to transform our dinner tables

In our weekly column, Future Food Quick Bites, we round up the latest developments in the alt-protein and sustainable food industry.

The Aubrey at the Mandarin Oriental has introduced two dishes featuring Sydney-based Vow’s cultured Japanese quail.

A lab-grown alternative to fattened duck liver offers a controversial future for the cultivated meat industry: as a luxury product for the few.

The Association of Meat, Poultry & Seafood Innovation (AMPS), a non-profit organization representing the cell-cultured industry, expressed its support for cultivated meat producer UPSIDE Foods and non-profit Institute for Justice on the lawsuit filed against the state of Florida in August challenging the state’s ban against cultivated meat.

Americans should want this kind of innovation, not shun it.

Upside Foods has filed a lawsuit against Florida’s cultivated meat ban, and is asking the court for an injunction. Here’s what happens next.

Upside Foods is slashing staff, citing legislative, regulatory, and funding headwinds.

With Florida’s impending ban on cultivated meat set to take effect on July 1, 2024, UPSIDE Foods, the world’s leading cultivated meat company, is hosting a one-night-only pop-up to celebrate the future of food and the importance of food freedom. The event will feature renowned Miami chef, restaurant owner and TV personality, Mika Leon, alongside mixologist Gio Gutierrez. It will be open to the public for free on a first-come, first-served basis, offering Floridians their first and last chance to

Governor Ron DeSantis has signed a bill to ban cultivated meat in Florida – here’s how the alternative protein industry is responding.

Despite declining sales and investment in the alternative protein industry in recent years, the segment is seeing early green shoots that suggest category stakeholders may be clawing their way out of the trough of disillusionment and up the other side of the Gartner Hype Cycle to the promise of full integration.

Voyage Foods has partnered with Cargill to scale up the production and distribution of its cocoa-free chocolate and nut-free spreads.

On one side of the debate is Bill Gates — on the other, Donald Trump’s physician. As several farming states try to ban it, is cell-cultivation the future of food or a threat to the US way of life?

By investing in the cultivated meat space, established brands are sending a signal to the market that it is a viable and growing industry.

Ron DeSantis will soon sign a bill to ban cultivated meat in Florida – but the law is facing pushback from the same people it’s ‘protecting’.

Eat Just has halted production of cultivated meat for US consumers, but says it plans to step up production in Singapore this year.

Yesterday, the Florida Senate approved a bill banning the sale of cultivated meat, making Florida the first state in the country to do so.

UPSIDE Foods pauses plans to build a large-scale cultivated meat in Illinois and is instead scaling up at its far smaller site in California

Upside Foods is putting plans for its Illinois-based cultivated meat factory on hold and laying off staff to focus on its existing plant.

The restaurants serving cultivated meat have stopped doing so, for now – what can consumers expect from cultured meat tastings next?

Bringing down the COGs for cultivated meat will require much larger bioreactors, argued Ark Biotech at the Tufts cellular ag innovation day.

Lawmakers in Arizona have proposed bills prohibiting the “misbranding” of meat alternatives and banning cultivated meat altogether.

Our podcast on science and technology. Lab-grown meat could overcome concerns about the harms that agriculture has on the environment and on animal welfare. But when will it become economically viable?

Read Upside Foods’ response to a recent news article that it says contains inaccurate information and misrepresents the company’s technology.

The Titan submersible, lab-grown chicken, and GM’s wayward Cruise robotaxis made our annual list of the worst in tech.

Though regulators came to a consensus on what to call the namesake product in 2022, continuing debates over package labeling rules could still create headwinds for players in the space.

In just two weeks, four cultivated meat companies have announced developments about manufacturing facilities to accelerate the sector.

Can cultivated meat transition from a loss-making novelty at high-end restaurants to a commercially viable alternative to animal agriculture?

Consumers are getting their first samplings of meat made in the lab.

A new financial advisory report predicts a challenging environment for big players in the space leading to consolidation.

In this article, we will take a detailed look at the 16 Biggest Lab Grown Meat Companies in 2023 with insights into the funds raised by companies. For a quick click 5 Biggest Lab Grown Meat Companies in 2023. In 2013, scientist Mark Post and his team in the Netherlands introduced to the world the first burger made with lab-grown meat. This […]

A report published today by UK corporate finance house Oghma Partners has found that interest in cultivated meat has skyrocketed as the industry scales and

Technology has always been a powerful force in the fight against climate change. In the world of FoodTech, ten companies are reshaping the future of food production with their innovative approaches to sustainability. These companies

The lab-grown meat industry needs to perfect and normalise the staples, like chicken and beef, before jumping to exotic alternatives like mammoth, argues Brian Kateman

Researchers from Singapore Management University (SMU) conducted a study to determine what nomenclature used to describe cultivated meat would

Two leading VCs and one startup founder dish on the untapped and overlooked opportunities they see in sustainable AgTech.

This whole cultivated meat industry is “transformative.” But it has to go in steps, Uma Valeti explained.

The doors are open and it’s time to explore all the day one goodness at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. Check out these highlights!

Beyond Meat tried lowering prices to attract more shoppers, but sales continued to fall, says TD Cowen in new note on the plant-based meat co

US cell-based meat business Upside Foods is to set up its first “large-scale” factory in Illinois.

Three months after becoming the joint-first company to gain regulatory approval for cultivated meat in the US, California-based Upside Foods has announced a new commercial-scale manufacturing plant near Chicago.

Last November, UPSIDE Foods made history when it became one of the first two cultivated meat companies to have a product greenlit by the FDA. Since then, the

A new Stanford study finds how government funding and lobbying, in both the US and EU, has led to an “unfree market” where animal products are bolstered 800 times more than alternatives.

Washington Post climate zeitgeist reporter Shannon Osaka speaks with Uma Valeti, founder and CEO of Upside Foods, about the viability of lab-grown meats, the future of food and the environmental impact of how we eat.

UPSIDE Foods, the cultivated meat, poultry and seafood company, announced that Dr. Kevin Kayser, UPSIDE’s Senior Vice President of Research & Development (R&D), has been promoted to the role of Chief Scientific Officer (CSO), and Sean Edgett, former General Counsel at Twitter, has joined UPSIDE Foods as Chief Legal Officer (CLO). …

Upside Foods is one of three companies to gain regulatory approval to produce and sell lab-grown chicken in the United States. On Tuesday, Aug. 15 at 11:00 a.m. ET, Uma Valeti, founder and CEO of Upside Foods, joins The Post’s Shannon Osaka to discuss the viability of lab-grown meats, the future of food and the environmental impact of how we eat.

A restaurant in San Francisco, California, will be the second US restaurant to feature lab-grown chicken in a dish. It will be sold tonight in a sold-out, six-course dinner event.

AP’S ASSESSMENT: False.

Food tech company Aleph Farms recently announced that it has applied to sell its cultivated beef steaks in Switzerland. Mathilde Alexandre, Corporate and

After roughly two decades of research and development that began in a handful of laboratories, there are dozens of companies developing the product.

A growing population and a shift towards healthy and sustainable living will help propel the alternative meat industry higher, experts say.

UPSIDE Foods announces the first reservations to experience its historic cultivated chicken are now open to the public. On August 4, Bar Crenn in San

Cell-cultivated meat companies could receive new investment since U.S. regulators cleared the product’s sale last month, but the sector must scale up and lower costs to seriously challenge conventional meat, said investors and major food companies.

The founder of the cultivated meat company talks about what inspired him to walk away from his profession as a cardiologist to create a groundbreaking cultivated meat company.

What is cultivated meat? By 2035, the market could hit nearly $2 billion. Here’s why it’s better for the planet and the animals than regular meat.

Take a first-look at the agenda for the brand-new Sustainability Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. Stay tuned for even more coming soon!

It’s “the same thing as traditional meat,” scientists say, but with “the animal taken out of the equation.”

Uma Valeti, Upside Foods’ founder and CEO, takes the Sustainability Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 to discuss commercializing cultivated meats.

The Good Food Institute (GFI) has released its annual State of Global Policy report covering the landscape of public investment, support, and regulations

The two companies which recently received USDA authorization to sell lab-grown chicken are both located a few miles apart in the East Bay.

Ten days after receiving full USDA approval to produce and sell cell-cultured poultry, UPSIDE Foods served its first cell-grown chicken to five contest winners this past weekend at a private event in San Francisco.

Companies making cultured meat are attracting billions of dollars of investment. Here are their biggest challenges.

Cultivated meat is coming to the US. Whether it’ll clean up emissions from food is complicated.

Making good on its promise following its USDA approval last month, California’s Upside Foods has debuted its cultivated chicken at Bar Crenn in San Francisco. Upside Foods, along with fellow California-based cultivated meat producer Good Meat, received the first USDA approval to sell cultivated meat last month. Diners got their first taste of Upside’s cultivated

Chicken produced entirely in a laboratory from animal cells by Upside Foods was available for the first time at Bar Crenn on Saturday.

Reaching commercial production won’t be easy.

Upside Foods and Good Meat received USDA approval to sell lab-grown chicken

U.S. regulators met another alternative protein milestone Wednesday when they approved both Upside Foods and Good Meat to sell their cultivated chicken products within the country.

UPSIDE Foods has edged closer to commercialization in the US after receiving a thumbs up from USDA for its ‘cell-cultivated chicken’ label.

UPSIDE Foods, formerly Memphis Meats, is the world’s first cultivated meat company and, after an FDA green light, is focused on growth.

Five or six years ago the press coverage around cultivated meat was almost universally positive. Today, we’re seeing headlines about cancerous cells, ‘vaporware,’ and business failures. So where does the industry go from here?

The recently launched Global Innovation Needs Assessment (GINA) report, Food Systems Methane Innovations, highlights the vital importance of

The production and pricing challenges presented in a recent Wall Street Journal article on cultivated meat are not new.

Ohayo Valley unveils its cultivated wagyu beef burgers for the first time at Vegan Women Summit, showcasing how women will play a pivotal role in the transformation of the global food system.

FDA approval and increased public funding have improved the industry’s outlook.

As it prepares for full regulatory approval, the company announced a new form of its meat that can be made faster, in greater quantities and less expensively than whole cuts, said Chief Operating Officer Amy Chen.

Companies in the emerging field have long been able to grow small amounts of meat from cells, but producing greater volumes at low cost is proving much more difficult.

California-based Upside Foods has announced a new range of cultivated ground meat products and a breakthrough in chicken cell lines. With its “No Questions” letter from the FDA last year, Upside Foods is closer than ever to regulatory approval for its cultivated meat. And it’s gearing up for market launch with the debut of ground

UPSIDE made history last year with its landmark FDA “green light” for its whole-textured chicken, which it will begin selling commercially as a cultivated…

California startups raised nearly twice as much funding as the second-largest global market for VC investment in agrifoodtech.

During a March 29 budget hearing for the US Food and Drug Administration, FDA Commissioner Robert Califf made references to climate change and suggested that

We consulted experts in a broad range of fields to get their take on the big changes that’ll make 2023 so memorable.

Food tech phenomenon NotCo announces it has joined with Dunkin’ Chile to launch two new plant-based donuts – the Boston NotManjxr and the Sugar

The cultivated products sector still has a long road ahead in many markets in terms of regulatory processes, but this thorough vetting will lay a strong foundation of food safety and quality that will eventually yield benefits in terms of consumer trust and acceptance.

As attention turns toward agriculture in the fight against climate change, cellular agriculture emerges as an invaluable solution.

The “no kill” product cultivated from animal cells has only small regulatory hurdles left before it can be sold in restaurants

Upside Foods’ chicken is grown in a lab and has “characteristics of muscle and connective tissue.”

The meat of the future may be cultured directly from animal cells without slaughtering livestock. It’s not yet sold in the U.S., but NPR got a tour of a leading startup and a taste of their chicken.

A startup making lab-grown chicken via lab-cultured cells has received a major nod from the Food and Drug Administration.

According to a new survey conducted by Farm Forward, a nonprofit working to end factory farming, approximately two-thirds of Americans (67%) say they would

Fundraising and understanding a realistic timeline are high barriers for these companies as they face R&D and regulatory challenges.

In this blog post, we explore plant-based-, fermented-, and cultivated proteins, all part of the alternative protein industry.

GlobalData released a report claiming that the alternative proteins market will likely witness higher demand in the future.

Chef Daniel Humm’s decision to take animal products off the menu pays off as Eleven Madison Park becomes the first plant-based restaurant in the world with three Michelin stars.

Emerging from stealth mode, the celebrity-backed Prolific Machines is about to bring down the price of cultivated meat significantly.

The UK alternative protein sector could be a leader but it needs to improve its regulatory process and provide more funding to support its growth.

President signed an executive order earlier this week implementing support for biotech and the cultivated meat category.

From UPSIDE Foods’ record-setting $400M Series C funding, to SCiFi Food’s breakthrough in scaling beef, 2022 is proving to be a banner year in cultivated meat

In the second quarter of 2022, total VC funding for the food tech sector experienced a 23% decline from Q1, says a new report by Pitchbook, with total deal

Venture capitalists invested $2 billion in cultivated protein last year, according to PitchBook data.

Cultivated meat is made from animals cells, not livestock. Here’s how it’s made, where the US stands on approval and how it could affect human and environmental health.

Bay Area-based food tech startup, SCiFi Foods, which officially emerged from stealth just last month, has publicly announced its first major R&D milestone today. The company, which focuses on the development and growth of cultured beef cells, has achieved a massive breakthrough by becoming the first organization in the world to announce edible beef cell lines that grow in single-cell suspension. …

California’s recently passed Budget Act of 2022 includes $5 million for the development of cultivated and plant-based meat.

A food crisis like few have ever seen could be the impetus for lab-grown and other food alternatives to thrive. But it won’t be without its own

This week, the California state legislature adopted a $308B budget that, for the first time, allocates public funding for alternative protein research while

What exactly is cultured meat and what is the big deal? These 7 celebrities have all invested in cultured meat and dairy companies.

Investors still want to put funds toward well-established players in the sector, and M&A, partnerships and joint ventures will continue to proliferate, said panelists at the Future Food-Tech Alternative Proteins conference this week.

Bill Gates has sought to support the alternative protein sector by investing in multiple companies, covering a range of specialist niches.

It’s like other meat, only without the dead animal

Former Impossible Foods executive will oversee commercialization efforts.

The race is on to get cell-based protein products – meat, seafood and dairy – onto supermarket shelves and into the hands of consumers.

Every year, 70 billion animals are slaughtered at an enormous cost to the planet. How close are we to a high-tech alternative?

Fine Dining Lovers spoke with three-Michelin-starred chef Dominique Crenn about sustainability, life on a farm and whether we should feel guilty about eating meat.

Wilson Sonsini advised Temasek on the deal. UPSIDE Foods (formerly Memphis Meats), a leading company in the cultivated meat, poultry, and seafood industry, announced the close …

UPSIDE Foods (formerly Memphis Meats) recently announced it raised $400 million in Series C funding. These are the details.

A nationwide outbreak of pathogenic avian influenza—the first time that the virus has been recorded in the US since 2016—is reaching record levels as millions of birds are killed to stop the spread.

UPSIDE Foods has raised $400 million in funding to bring more of its delicious cultivated meat to the world.

22 Apr 2022 — Upside Foods, formerly known as Memphis Meats, has closed a US$400 million series C funding round, the most significant round in industry to date. This latest raise is expected to tap into industry’s biggest opportunities around scale and places the company’s valuation at over US$1 billion, it reveals.

Every year, 70 billion animals are slaughtered to satisfy the global appetite for meat – at an enormous cost to the planet. How close are we to a high-tech alternative?

Liz Marshall—a documentary director whose latest film, “Meat The Future,” examines the realm of “cultivated meat,” generated in a lab setting, from animal cells, but these animals remain unharmed—explains in a recent “Talking Animals” interview the criteria she considers when deciding what topic or person will constitute her next movie.

The new documentary ‘Meat the Future’ follows the journey of a growing lab-grown meat company. The film is narrated by Dr. Jane Goodall and features music by Moby.

/PRNewswire/ — UPSIDE Foods (formerly Memphis Meats), the leading company in the cultivated meat, poultry, and seafood industry, hosted the first public tour…

A snapshot of where cultivated meat stands in 2022, along with equipment and facilities needed to meet anticipated demand, and when initial products could finally reach the marketplace.

The cell-based seafood company plans to use the funding to expand production of sushi-grade salmon as it prepares for a U.S. launch.

CellulaREvolution has closed a successful pre-Series A funding round, scooping $2.38 to support developments ahead of market release.

The list of new, up-and-coming food tech companies is definitely exhaustive; we highlight a few compelling ones here to watch during 2022.

Michal Ansky—a judge on cooking competition show ‘MasterChef’—deems that cultured chicken tastes just like chicken in a side-by-side taste test put on by Israel’s Supermeat.

Could cell-based lobster soon appear on menus? One company believes there’s a future for alternatives to this pricey delicacy long sourced from the sea.

26 Jan 2022 — Marine aquaculture or “mariculture’’ colloquially, is gaining esteem as a sustainable food source for a seven billion plus human population. It recently came under the spotlight as a potential contributor, through the research of an international team of scientists from the University of Adelaide and The Nature Conservancy.

The world is going to need to produce food differently if we are going to survive.

Startups are founder-driven companies that focus on a single product or service. These ventures typically have loose business models, and they lack the funds to expand the business and take it further. However, that also makes them important businesses to watch. This is especially true if they have ideas that can work on a larger […]

Transitioning to a sustainable food system that can deliver healthy diets for an estimated 10 billion people by 2050 is an unprecedented challenge of the climate crisis — but for investors, there is also great opportunity.

HONG KONG — The shift to plant-based dining has been gathering strength over the last decade, but it took a pandemic for the world of fine dining to finally cross the Rubicon. With restaurants closed, chefs had time to take stock, and the enormity of the Covid-19 crisis pushed them to visualise a different future.

Houses built with 3D printing technology in Nacajuca, Mexico, on September 13, 2021. (Alejandro Cega

World-renowned chef and humanitarian José Andrés joins GOOD Meat—a division of JUST Egg maker Eat Just—on its mission of restructuring the global food system and will put its lab-grown chicken on his restaurant menu.

UPSIDE Foods (formerly Memphis Meats) is offering consumers tours of “the world’s most advanced cultivated meat production facility.”

UPSIDE Develops ACF Cell Feed – a cell media that’s 100% animal component free – a milestone towards making meat without animals

/PRNewswire/ — UPSIDE Foods (formerly Memphis Meats), the leading company in the cultivated meat, poultry, and seafood industry, announced today the…

Despite how rapidly the plant-based space has grown in the past few years, plant-based meat has hit a sales slump. Market watcher SPINS shared recent data detailing how sales in the overall pl…

It depends on who you ask.

The award-winning company is moving from research to the production of cultivated meat, with the opening of its production facility last week.

Groundbreaking innovations that are making the world better, smarter and a little more fun

It was another action-packed week in alt-protein, including the launch of one of the industry’s largest production facilities to date for cultivated meat and the unveiling of a new plant-base…

“It’s not a dream.”

Our growing appetite for novel food tech – from lab grown meat to nano-packaging.

Upside Foods prepares to open its inaugural production facility.

The list of meat mimics — plant-based, cultured, fungi-based — is mushrooming.

It’ll capture “the meeting point between the cuisines of New Orleans, San Francisco, and France,” per French newspaper Le Figaro

Jane Goodall is set to narrate the story of cultivated protein in the new documentary Meat The Future, which will also feature Moby’s music.

Legendary environmentalist Jane Goodall will narrate the upcoming cultured meat documentary entitled Meat the Future.

Partner Insight: Climate innovation offers an enormous opportunity to build economic models and individual company advantage for the long term – beyond what is achievable through new technologies, according to Boston Consulting Group

You can grow it in a laboratory | Technology Quarterly

I have long been fascinated by Unreasonable, an investment house that is building a unique ‘ecosystem for good’ that is nurturing entrepreneurs tackling some of the world’s largest challenges.

In recent years, there has been tremendous growth in the plant-based meat market, with new entrants joining those that have been around for decades.

Think about a scenario where you bite into a juicy chicken burger and enjoy the meal to the hilt more so because there is no cruelty involved as the meat is not from a slaughtered animal but has been instead grown in a lab. Not only is the meat cruelty-free, but far less water and other natural resources have been used. And there is no question of antibiotics at all. All the banes of factory farming are gone. This way, both the environment and the person consuming the food stand to gain.

The new Michelin Guide for California comes out in a few days, but assuming all of these SF restaurants get to hold on to their stars, you might be glad to learn that they are back open — having, in some cases, quietly reopened this summer for indoor dining after over a year completely dark.

Moby will executive produce and provide music for “Meat the Future,” a new documentary about the revolutionary new practice of “cultivated” meat. In addition, conservation l…

Companies are making real dairy, meat and eggs without animals and using fermentation to produce new analogs, but the challenge is describing it in a way that sounds appetizing — and not like science fiction.

UPSIDE Foods, a world leader in cultivated meat, poultry and seafood (also known as cell-cultured meat), today announced the appointment of Kyle Vogt to its Board of Directors. Vogt is the Co-Founder, President and Chief Technical Officer of Cruise, the self-driving car company. As UPSIDE accelerates its path towards commercialization and prepares to bring its first consumer product to market (pending regulatory review), Vogt brings to the board over a decade of experience in founding and scalin

This week in food tech, Green Common launches a new plant-based beverage bar, researchers are bioprinting whole cuts of meat, and the USDA makes an important step when it comes to cultured meat.

Eat Just announced today that it has partnered with Doha Venture Capital (DVC) and Qatar Free Zones Authority (QFZA) to build a cultured meat facility in the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) …

It can’t be denied that celebrities influence thousands of people. So when they make moves within the vegan scene, the effect can be massive

Chef Josef Centen just teamed up with So Delicious Dairy-Free to reshape his menu at LA-based Bar Ama, replacing dairy with vegan cheese in two popular dishes.

This week in Alt Food, a Michelin-starred chef gets into cultured meat, Chipotle debuts plant-based chorizo, and a new vegan butter hits store shelves.

The first U.S. female chef to get three Michelin stars will be a culinary counsel and recipe development assistant to the company. She will make its cultured chicken the first meat on her menu in years, once it gets regulatory approval.

Michelin-starred chef Dominique Crenn made news when she took beef, chicken, and pork out of her restaurants. Now science is letting her bring it back.

Start-ups are developing cell-based seafood, beef, and chicken, to name a few. Many consumers are keen to try cultured or lab-grown meat

Orbillion Bio has become the eighth member of The Alliance for Meat, Poultry & Seafood Innovation (AMPS Innovation), a coalition of cell-cultured meat, poultry, and seafood companies aiming to build awareness about their industry and establish the market.

It may seem stranger than fiction, but the lab-grown meat alternatives industry is poised to explode—and it’s bringing farmers along for the ride.

Synthetic biology offers ways to reengineer almost everything humans consume—which in turn could radically reduce our environmental impact.

Splashy headlines suggest it might be. But experts say it’s still a “moonshot” away.

SynBio is set to become a powerful double-digit growth sector disrupting the food and fashion industries, a new report predicts.

GFI’s lead cultivated meat scientist Elliot Swartz says open-source cell-based technologies are needed to accelerate the protein shift.

Generally speaking, restaurants with drive-thrus have often fared better than most over the last year and a half of shutdowns, dining room restrictions, and overall uncertainty. But even as demand …

Sustainable alternatives to livestock farming are being held back by patents, a reluctance to share research and lack of government support

Gourmey grows foie gras from liver cells cultured in the lab. It’s just raised $10 million to build a production facility in Paris.

If you have yet to explore the brave new world of plants, take a moment and grab a seat. You might be surprised.

Israeli startup Future Meat Technologies’ industrial-scale cultured meat production facility is designed to get lab-grown meat onto consumers’ plates ASAP.

Amy Chen becomes Upside Foods’ first chief operating officer.

Orbillion Bio, the food tech dedicated to culturing premium heritage meats, has joined the Alliance for Meat, Poultry & Seafood Innovation.

This former cardiologist started Upside Foods and is now growing real meat in a lab.

Larissa Zimberoff takes us with her to a cultured meat tasting and explores what it means to eat chicken created by scientists.

The Berkeley-based startup, UPSIDE Foods, says that it’s going to bring cell-cultured chicken to stores in the U.S. this year.

The name change coincides with the launching of company’s chicken product.

Arvind Gupta is a Partner at Mayfield Fund where he co-leads the Engineering Biology practice. He was the first investor in several breakout biology companies including Geltor, Prellis, Synthex, and Memphis Meats. Prior to joining Mayfield, Arvind was a founder of Indie Bio, the world’s leading biot

/PRNewswire/ — Today, Memphis Meats, the leading company in cell-cultured meat, poultry and seafood (also known as cultured meat) becomes UPSIDE Foods. This…

Memphis Meats has changed its name to UPSIDE Foods to reflect its mission of delivering future-friendly meat to consumers.

Tyson Foods is adding burgers, sausages, and grounds to its Raised & Rooted plant-based brand. The brand dropped products that were a mix of plant- and animal-based

Covid lockdowns sparked demand for meal kits and food delivery, while consumers are becoming increasingly aware of the environmental cost of meat.

As technology advances within this space, experts say there will be tasty options for everyone, even die-hard meat eaters.

The burgeoning climate-focused portfolio from early-stage investor SOSV Investments has managed to raise nearly $2 billion in follow-on financing since the startup companies graduated from the investment firm’s various accelerator programs. Taken together those companies have a collective mar…

Food tech-focused firm Finistere Ventures announced today the launch of its Finistere Aotearoa Fund done in partnership with New Zealand Growth Capital Partners. The $40 million NZD (~$28.1 million…

Expediting U.S. regulatory approval for cell-cultured meat would help address some of the most pressing issues of our time.

Mission Barns, based in Berkeley, is one of dozens of companies creating meat products in labs.

Berlin-based Bluu Biosciences has bagged €7 million to go towards R&D and product development of Europe’s first cell-cultured seafood.

Dutch cell-cultured meat startup Meatable – which is working with porcine and bovine induced pluripotent stem cells [iPSCs] – has closed a $47m Series A round (bringing its total funding to $60m) to advance small-scale production at the Biotech Campus Delft and diversify its product portfolio.

The alternative protein sector landed a record $3.1 billion in investments in 2020. The cultured and plant-based meat industries led funding.

A consensus is building around the term “cell-cultured” as the best labelling description for seafood grown directly from cells in a lab.

‘Cell-cultured’ may be the best way to label seafood grown from animal cells in bioreactors, according to key stakeholders in the nascent industry, who have teamed up with the National Fisheries Institute to share their views with the FDA.

Symetra has a new benefits vice president. The Standard has a new compliance leader.

AgFunder, a venture capital fund, found that all of last year’s investments in the space may be more than a third above those received in 2019.

This is why Bill Gates thinks people should only be eating synthetic beef. With Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat growing, Gates thinks we should cut out meat.

Anthony Chow tells Oliver Telling why he is seeking opportunities in lab-grown meat

Venture fund SOSV announced today it is retiring its Food-X accelerator program, which the company founded back in 2015. Moving forward, startups that apply with SOSV will be funneled into either i…

Companies making meat from animal cells could be closer to bringing products to market, if regulators around the world approve.

Technological innovation has a role to play in advancing moral progress, but so do ethical arguments.

Now here’s a question for all you farmers.

India’s first cell-based protein startup has filed to patent its proprietary technology used to develop its cultivated minced chicken.

While lab-grown meats may take a bit of time before they are widely available, plant-based protein alternatives to meat are already being widely consumed

Andy Coyne looks at significant transactions and emerging themes in merger, acquisition and investment activity in the global food sector during a year like no other.

Singapore’s approval of cultured meat is the beginning of a journey to bring something new to the business and potentially change how the world makes food.

The alternative protein industry is presenting South Australian primary producers and food manufacturers with enormous growth opportunities as consumers look to plant-based options over traditional meat and dairy items.

The Dutch company that created the world’s first cell-based hamburger has now raised a total of $91 million, and hopes to have products on the market in 2022.

Singapore has become the first country in the world to approve cultured meat for commercial sale.

ClearMeat is set to pilot its cell-based chicken mince, which it claims to have reached price parity with its real animal counterpart.

Hong Kong-based cell-based food tech Avant Meats has just unveiled its cultivated fish fillet in a world’s first.

Late stage startups represented 78% of the capital, with Impossible Foods, Memphis Meats, LiveKindly and Perfect Day representing some of the largest deals in 2020.

The Chicken restaurant is a test kitchen created by food-technology startup SuperMeat that serves real chicken grown outside of the animal.

As the pandemic continues to ravage the country, now is the time for Sens. Mike Braun and Todd Young to support federal funding for cultured-meat research. For those who don’t

One moral problem that I seem to be on the wrong side of is eating meat. How can I justify it? (And how can you?)

“Lab-grown meat will be a part of everyday life in a surprisingly short time,” predicts alt protein investor and food scientist Ron Shigeta.

Biotech can often, and sometimes literally, fly over our heads. However, the pandemic has shown an increased need for investment and focus on solutions that work on human and planetary health. For IndieBio, a science and biotech accelerator run by VC firm SOSV, this unprecedented year offered high …

Back to the Roots aims to make gardening ‘accessible to growers of all experience levels and in all types of living environments’.

It sounds tasty, too.

Now’s the time for sustainable investments to shine. There are billions of dollars in funding in both public and private markets dedicated to new sustainable investing and demand for consumers for a more conscious capitalism has never been stronger. As founders and investors reawaken to a sus…

Mosa Meat claims it can grow a “beef” patty for around $10.69.

In a recent interview with Elysabeth Alfano on the Plantbased Business Hour, thought leader, founder of Wild Earth pet food and investor, Ryan Bethencourt, shares his newest endeavor Sustainable Food Ventures. For the full interview, […]

The Singapore-based company, which hopes to have frozen minced seafood on the market in 2022, will use the funds to build its pilot plant.

The National Science Foundation (NSF), an independent federal agency of the US government, has just awarded the University of California Davis with a $3.5 million five-year grant for cultured meat research. With this investment, North […]

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CEO Rich Kelleman of Bond Pet Foods explains how pooches can get protein without the slaughter.

Vow has partnered with revered Aussie chef Neil Perry to create a trial menu using lab-grown meats, and the alternative meat trend ramps up.

The new documentary “Meat the Future” presents the case for cultured meat in terms that are almost naïve.

New documentary Meat the Future follows the journey of former cardiologst Uma Valeti and his lab-grown meat company Memphis Meats.

Lever VC – a global venture capital fund whose partners were investors in Beyond Meat, Impossible Foods, and Memphis Meats – has launched a new fund targeting early stage companies in the burgeoning alternative protein space, with commitments of $23m to date.

Lever VC Fund I has already amassed a portfolio of 10 alternative protein startups in Greater China, Singapore and the rest of the world.

One possible solution to cellular agriculture’s biggest problem — how to develop a cheap, humane, growth material for cultured meat — may have come from a conversation in line at a Tim Hortons in Alberta. The husband and wife duo of Matt and Jalene Anderson-Baron were waiting for …

The 3D-printed chicken nuggets will closely mimic the taste and appearance of their original chicken nuggets.

Amount raised by alternative protein companies more than doubled to $1.4bn in first seven months

Higher Steaks’ success in creating the world’s first lab-grown bacon and pork marks another step towards commercialising cell-based meat.

Matthew Kenney Cuisine will be launching Woodblock, a plant-based Japanese concept offering a select assortment of sushi rolls along with vegetables and bowls in San Francisco this Summer. The menu will include innovative variations on traditional dishes.

Cellular agriculture companies can use fermentation to grow meat, chicken, and fish from cell cultures in a lab-like setting, offering consumers—and astronauts—a sustainable source of nutritious foods without the animals.

Arvind Gupta, the founder and head of IndieBio, is leaving the accelerator whose portfolio he helped build into a $3.2 billion life sciences powerhouse, to join the venture capital fund Mayfield. The move is a signal both of Mayfield’s increasing commitment to invest in a thesis around human …

Combine animal stem cells with nutrients, salts, pH buffers, and growth factor in science-fiction-like vats and you get actual meat without growing the whole animal. It’s called cultivated meat production and will probably meet the world’s meat requirements in a decade or so.

Cell-based meat companies Integriculture and Shiok Meats announced this week that they have officially entered into a collaboration to scale up production of the latter’s cell-based shrimp, accordi…

As a leading meat producer, Tyson has the potential to do much harm but also much good. It could annually end the exploitation of billions of animals by expanding its plant-based protein offerings.

People wanting to kick the beef habit will soon be able to turn to Redefine Meat’s 3D printed plant-based steaks, the Alt-Steak.

MetFilm Sales takes Meat the Future London-based MetFilm Sales has acquired the world sales rights, excluding Canada, for Liz Marshall’s Meat the Future. The feature-length documentary, which premiered at Hot Docs ’20, looks at ‘cultivated meat,’ a food science that grows real meat from animal cells. Cardiologist Dr. Uma Valeti, the co-founder and CEO of Memphis Meats, […]

MetFilm Sales takes Meat the Future
London-based MetFilm Sales has acquired the world sales rights, excluding Canada, for Liz Marshall’s Meat the Future.
The feature-length documentary, which premiered at Hot Docs ’20, looks at …

“Meat the Future” is a slightly goofy title for a film that takes its subject very, very seriously. The wordplay feels like a token flourish of whimsy in Liz Marshall’s quietly ed…

Liz Marshall’s new film Meat the Future focuses on a new way of producing meat — one where the animal doesn’t have to be killed. Instead, cells are taken from a living animal and meat is produced from those cells.

The lab-grown meats will taste just like your favorite dishes, maybe even better. Here are some companies that use science to create meat alternatives.

‘Compact’ and ‘buttery,’ Paris startup Gourmey is developing a flock-free foie gras using duck egg cells

Covid-19 has thrown the US meat supply chain into turmoil. High-tech cultured meat companies want to re-envision how it works.

At this point we’re all over making sourdough, right? The needy sourdough starters, the shortages of flour… even for the fermentation-curious, it’s getting to be more trouble than…

It is not often that the mug shot of Microsoft founder Bill Gates appears in a presentation on agriculture. But that’s what happened during a recent

Director Liz Marshall (The Ghosts in Our Machine) will premiere her latest documentary Meat the Future on Thursday (May 7) as part of Hot Docs at Home on CBC.
The film centers …

Northernstars.ca – Documentary filmmaker Liz Marshall focuses on the growing cell-based meat industry in Meat The Future.

Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival revealed its full 2020 lineup on Tuesday (April 14) following its postponement as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The festival’s organizers are “continuing to investigate” ways to bring the official selection to Toronto audiences. Hot Docs, originally scheduled to run April 30 to May 10, is partnering […]

Whereas women have historically had barriers in business creation and pursuing STEM fields, today women are leading innovation in…

Cell-based meat startup begins work on large scale production facility.

“We will sell you everything you need to make cell-based meat in your facility” Rom Kshuk, the CEO of Israeli cellular agriculture company Future Meat, told me over the phone this week.…

From the director of animal-rights film The Ghosts in Our Machine, the new documentary spotlight the burgeoning cellular agriculture industry with a focus on Silicon Valley company Memphis Meats.

A study published today in the scientific journal Nature Food outlines a new way to give cell-based meat a realistic, well, meaty texture. In the study, which was authored by researchers from Israe…

Startups like Beyond Meat have seen business boom as US consumers increasingly opt for plant-based foods. From meat to milk, the whole industry is growing, and VCs are hungry for the opportunity.

It was said to have begun at a wholesale animal market in Wuhan City which health officials have strongly suggested as the starting point of the outbreak. However, COVID-19 is not the only animal virus […]

Got Beef: The what, why, and how on plant-based and lab-grown meats.

Imagine a world where you don’t go to a butcher, but instead walk into a lab to get a sirloin steak for your family’s gathering.

While burgers made from plants instead of animals are all the rage today, and many popular restaurant chains are jumping on the alternative-meat

5 cell-based food tech startups have joined hands to help bring a regulatory framework for cultivated products to enter the market.

ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A new Dutch company may have found a solution for environmentally conscious consumers struggling to abandon meat: pork grown in a laboratory that does not harm animals or the planet. Meatable will present this summer its first pig prototype made entirely of cultured animal cells instead of slaughtered animals, according …

A plant-based approach is really solid for optionality, but how do you create a situation where you’re not just adding an item to a menu?

Vegan Saudi Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed invests in vegan meat. And he says it’s going to get cheaper while helping reduce the climate crisis.

Can 60% of current meat consumption be replaced by novel vegan meat replacements and cultured meat in the next 20 years? That is what AT Kearney has recently projected, but the analysis does not outline a path for achieving the forecast. Is reaching the target possible?

Memphis Meats CEO and co-founder Uma Valeti explains how his company produces meat by taking cells from animals like cows and chickens.

Who knew the potential solution to global crises would take shape in the form of a hamburger? Well, not your average hamburger.

Clean meat, cultured meat, lab grown meat: while experts argue about the terminology, it’s all the same. This revolution is the process of taking stem cells from a cow,

While a new cell-based meat company emerges from stealth mode almost every month, the amount of money invested in the embryonic sector to date pales in comparison to the megabucks poured into plant-based meat over the past couple of years. So is slaughter-free meat still a pipedream, or something that can really work on an industrial scale?

Everything you need to need to know about the largest US startup funding rounds of January 2020; broken down by industry, stage, investors, and more…

By Adam Bergman, managing partner, EcoTech Capital Partners A hot topic recently was the January announcement that Memphis Meats, one of the leading cell-based meat, poultry, and seafood companies, raised a $161 million Series B financing round. Many company executives and investors have been asking me why a company without commercial revenue and still working … Continue reading “Contributed Content: Cellular Meat is Poised to be the Next Big Thing in Alternative Protein”

The notable startup fundings for the week ending 1/25/20 featuring funding details for The Athletic, Flutterwave, AppsFlyer, and much much more.

Lab meat has excited Richard Branson so much that he wants to be the difference in the world’s food requirements Richard Branson, who is an investor in Virgin Group which recently closed the largest-ever funding round in the history of the industry. Richard Benson believes it could make a positive difference to the world’s food …

Legacy companies Cargill and Tyson both participated in this funding round for a facility that could be making products in 24 months.

The news marks an important milestone in the movement to get cell-cultured meat to market.

Memphis Meats is on its way to being the first cell-based meat company to bring its product to market.

Memphis Meats, which grows meat from animal cells, just got a huge endorsement from some big-named backers. That will take it one step closer to selling its product, but it’s still a long way off from hitting store shelves.

The California company, which has already developed a pork variety, will use the money to invest in manufacturing and develop new technology.

Jack Link’s Beef Jerky bought the business for an undisclosed amount and will move operations to its facilities, resulting in the closure of a California plant and the loss of 371 jobs.

Microbe-manufactured protein and plant-based, meat-tasting burgers are picking up steam — and investment — around the world.

The burger patties of Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods, which use proteins from pea, mung bean, soy and potato, and which are said to approximate the taste of meat, are sold in US supermarkets and are served at the likes of Subway and Burger King. Tyson Foods and Nestlé are among the large companies that have joined Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods with their own offerings.

Cell-based meat? Cultivated meat? Immaculate meat? What’s in a name?

Four Emeryville businesses landed on the 2019 SFBT ‘Fast 100’ list including the top spot, Zymergen has leased 300,000 sq ft of the former Novartis campus.

Dina Litovsky captured the weirdest and the WIRED-est moments from our 2019 event.

Experts say that the unanswered question of whether cultured meat is halal or not is holding back investment in the Middle East

After inking what sources said was a nine-figure deal with the world’s leading supplier of collagen proteins, Gelita, the cell-based collagen maker Geltor is in the market for at least $50 million in new funding, TechCrunch has learned. According to people with knowledge of the company’…

The private markets are constantly evolving, and new spaces rise—then sometimes fall—in the span of a few years. Given this fluidity, it can be challenging to identify and track the most promising spa

[NEW YORK] SoftBank Group Corp is teeing up investments for the successor to its gargantuan Vision Fund. It’s in talks to back a pharmaceutical delivery startup, a company focused on robotic burger-making and a maker of lab-grown meat, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Read more at The Business Times.

What are the odds that these animals are the tastiest?

Since the lab-meat industry is in such early production stages, it’s difficult to assess the actual carbon footprint of producing on a large scale.

From food to beauty to hotels, companies across industries are adding plant-based products and services to cater to sustainability-focused consumers.

Based on calories alone, plant-based protein is healthier than animal-based meat. But there’s much more to the story.

Are consumers ready for meat grown in a lab? Companies like Memphis Meats, Aleph Farms, Higher Steaks, Mosa Meat and Meatable are all trying to bring to supermarkets around the world meat made from cultivated animal cells, but the problem has always been the cost. Now, Future Meat Technologies has…

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Is the futuristic world of food good for humans and the planet? Can meat grown in a lab be called vegan?

Cell-cultured or ‘cultivated’ meat offers the promise of ‘real meat’ – not a plant-based approximation – without raising and slaughtering millions of animals. But is it attracting the same level of investment, and how soon might it realistically come to market? To learn more, FoodNavigator-USA caught up with the founder of UK-based startup Higher Steaks, which is focusing on pork.

Food technology company Ochakov Food Ingredients Plant produced the country’s first cultured meat, a 40-gram cutlet grown from animal cells without the need to slaughter animals.

Cultured meat — also called lab-grown, cell-based, and clean meat — could be available as soon as 2021. But what is lab meat? And is lab meat vegan?

When talking about cultured meat (that is, meat made without animal slaughter), one of the first names that comes up in conversation is Memphis Meats. This Silicon Valley startup was the first comp…

San Francisco based New Culture announced that it raised $3.5 million in a seed round of funding to disrupt the dairy industry.

Five companies that grow red meat, poultry and seafood from animal cells outside the animals formed a coalition in August to focus on educating consumers and dealing with government

New Culture, a San Fran start-up pioneering animal-free dairy cheese, has raised $3.5 million in seed round funding to help disrupt the dairy cheese sector.

Biotechnology is going to impact every industry imaginable. This is enabled by synthetic biology, which views DNA as a programming language for creating new goods like petroleum-free plastics, spider silk jackets, and perfumes with the aroma of extinct flowers.

The FDA will hold a public meeting on September 27 on modernizing food standards of identity, which some stakeholders believe are out of date and may impede innovation.

Newly formed Alliance for Meat, Poultry & Seafood Innovation boasts members that bypass rearing and slaughtering animals to produce meat directly from cells,Politics ,meat,cultured meat,USA,vegan

The food industry will need every tool in the toolkit at its disposal to feed 10 billion people by 2050. Animal farming is not one of them.

Today five cellular agriculture and aquaculture companies announced that they have formed a new coalition to educate and advocate for cultured meat — that is, meat or seafood grown outside the anim…

MINNEAPOLIS – Cargill wants in on plant-based meats in a bigger way.

Battle centers on what consumers should know about what’s in their “veggie bacon” and “cauliflower rice”

British investors, including the founder of smoothie company Innocent Drinks, are ploughing money into start-ups which hope to serve up laboratory-grown sausages and burgers.

Clean meat, also known as cultured meat, is having a real moment–but what exactly is clean meat, and who are the main startups developing it?

First the debate was over what defines milk. Now meat is in a similar discussion as cell-based alternatives are coming to the market. Products that look and taste like pork, beef and chicken are being put on the table to allow consumers to decide their fate. David Miller explains

EMERYVILLE, Calif. – Uma Valeti slices into a pan-fried chicken cutlet in the kitchen of his startup, Memphis Meats. He sniffs the tender morsel …

Memphis Meats, a startup in Emeryville, Calif., makes cell-based or cultured meat in a laboratory. The company uses animal cells.

The foremost “cell-based meat” company wants to make animal-derived meat a thing of the past.

KBW Ventures founder and CEO to discuss evolution of plant-based technology

For this feature we are very pleased to welcome a special guest contributor, one who is extremely well-respected in our vegan world and will be well-known to most of our readers. Olivia Fox Cabane is […]

The sizzling initial public offering of Beyond Meat has set off a fierce debate among companies with a variety of futuristic food ideas.

“Biotechnology is the next big solution for planetary and human health.” Food biotech Insights and examples from Jun Axup, Scientific Director and Partner at IndieBio.

The company’s Raised & Rooted brand joins Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat in a booming market.

“This is real meat directly from animal cells,” says Memphis Meats CEO Uma Valeti. “People who love meat for thousands of years immediately recognize this as meat. In fact, cell-based meat is called the holy grail of the food industry. This is meat and when people taste it that’s when the magic happens.”

The other option is to go vegan

This excerpt from Amanda Little’s new book, ‘The Fate of Food: What We’ll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World,’ offers a peek into what it means to grow meat in a laborat…

The animal-free protein revolution is just getting started.

A review of Aaron Bastani, ‘Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto’ published on 11 June 2019 by Verso Books.

The next time you sit down to a steak dinner or savor a juicy burger, take a moment to ponder the thought that the meat on your plate may have helped you to become the modern human you are today. While obtaining meat during prehistoric times may not have been as convenient as going to …

The alternative meat market could grow from less than $14bn today to be worth $140bn over the next 10 years, according to analysts at Barclays.

The alternative protein space has recently been an area of considerable investing activity and increased interest.

The Good Food Institute has found the industry explode in size.

Raising millions of dollars in funds, memphis meats is exploring gene-editing technology CRISPR to produce more competitive cultured meat.

Virgin founder Richard Branson invested in clean meat brand Memphis Meats because they’re fixing our food system, our environment, and our health.

Cell-based or cultured meat startups continue product development and push for a regulatory framework.

“As investors, we always look for the next big thing… and the food industry is the next big thing to get involved in.” That’s how Brian Frank, founder of FTW Ventures, kicke…

As costs go down and the benefits become more clear, can we afford not to eat lab-grown meat?

The Industrializing Cell-Based Meat Summit will bring together leaders of the cell-based meat industry to share the latest scientific progress in the field and address the current challenges the industry is facing. The two-day event will take […]

An industry promoting its own scientific studies, denying existing and factual data, lobbying departments within the government, and funneling large […]

Lab-grown meat is big business. A handful of enterprising startups have raised and invested hundreds of millions of dollars into nascent technology, banking on breakthroughs in biotech to revolutionize the food industry.

Startup Perfect Day is teaming up with ADM.

“We’ve passed that phase,” Mr Mehra says. “Now we’re hearing more about how to change what’s on the table. Especially in Singapore, I’m hearing a lot of innovations geared to consumer products. I think 2019 can be a breakout year when you can see a lot more innovations hitting the shelves of 7-Eleven and Cheers, not remaining exclusive and high-value products.” Read more at The Business Times.

While the question of how U.S. federal agencies will regulate cell-based meats remains unclear, Memphis Meats, one of the biggest players in the new field, is offering a simple solution.

A long time ago I realized what McDonald’s and KFC had understood quite a while ..

You might say that thinking about the investment opportunities available due to climate change trivializes the problem. I do not agree.

As the number of companies growing meat in vats explodes, the sector is facing challenges that show it is coming of age.

While no bold new suggestions about how to label cell-based meat emerged from this week’s joint FDA/USDA meeting, start-ups in the field made it clear that the term ‘lab-grown’ should be off the table, and challenged claims that they plan to use antibiotics in their cultivators.

Charlie Powell is right that there’s an increasing consumer desire for what’s often called clean meat. (“Tooth and Nail: The market for lab-grown meat,” Sept. 15).Such…

Back in 2013, the emerging biotech field of lab-grown meat products held a tasting of a lab-grown burger which cost a staggering $330,000 dollars. The

One of these innovative companies is San Francisco-based New Age Meats, which has perfected the sizzle, smell, taste, and texture of pork sausage by using animal cells from a live pig named Jessie (who was not harmed in the process!). Although not in the retail market yet, they debuted their new product at a brewery in San Francisco this Monday, allowing investors to sample their lab-cultured sausages.

CEOs from a handful of startups working to create meat from animal cells have decided there’s one thing they don’t want their product to be called: clean.

The Clean Meat Conference is the first event focused around the burgeoning technology solution for the environmental burden of livestock agriculture: growing animal meat from cells.

Climate change and population growth is already putting a huge strain on the global food industry. And with vegetarianism, veganism and other ethic- and eco-based diets on the rise, it has never…

A Kellogg’s representative stated that the future of protein is plant-based at the Good Food Institute’s vegan and clean meat Good Food Conference.

Several products are getting closer to market. Missouri now says they can’t be sold as “meat.”

Dairy vs. almond milk. Rice vs. cauliflower. Beef vs. “clean” and plant-based meat. The past year has been filled with fighting between traditional food industries and the makers of their budding alternatives — and the past week was no different.

The North American Meat Institute and Memphis Meats, a San Francisco-based company developing meat that would be produced by replicating cells, on Thursday wrote President Donald Trump to ask

Heidi Roizen, a partner at top-notch Silicon Valley venture capital firm DFJ, asked Memphis Meats founder Uma Valeti to stop a presentation he was giving when he showed a slide of five new hires, all of whom were women.

From sleep robots to virtual nutritionists to CBD oils, these companies are disrupting the wellness space.

One of my most memorable board meetings this year was with Memphis Meats. I literally had to stop the board meeting over one slide, as I had never seen a slide like this in my 20 years as a VC. And no, it wasn’t about product development or regulatory strategy or burn rate.

Here’s what people think about petri-dish-to-table cuisine.

A cardiologist from the US might just change the way we consume food in the future

Meat and milk from animals grown on farms may well be a thing of the past for many people when the new products of cellular agriculture come on…

Here is what your daily menu might look like if recently funded startups have their way.

A Crunchbase News analysis of venture funding for the food and beverage category found that startups in the space gobbled up more than $3 billion globally in disclosed investment over the past twelve months. That includes a broad mix of supersize deals, tiny seed rounds, and everything in between.

ll economic activities related to research, development, production, trade and consumption of plants, animals and all other living things are defined as “bioeconomy”. Scientifically, bioeconomy aims at producing economic gains by generating surplus values using new methods such as biotechnology with the targeted

Technological advances and billions of dollars of investment from private equity and food MNCs are propelling the alternative protein sector, but consumers may need some persuading to jump from meat to lab-grown products.

So far not even one ounce of clean meat — real meat grown from animal cells rather than animal slaughter — has been sold in the United States, yet the U.S. Department of Agriculture is already getting an earful about the future food. It’s perhaps not surprising that some in the conventional animal agriculture industry feel threatened… Continue Reading

Future Meat Technologies, a company producing slaughter-free clean meat, has spoken out about the evolving food system. The company recently received an investment from Tyson Foods. Tyson is now an investor of a number of clean meat and plant-based businesses.

As the process and cost for creating the futuristic protein is refined by companies such as Memphis Meats and JUST, the real question is whether people will buy it.

Bay Area companies aim to steer the industry in a new direction with sustainable animal agriculture and the next generation of bioengineered “clean meat,” while activists and health-conscious consumers take issue with the status quo in the meat industry. Marin county farms are reviving wholesome agriculture practices from the past to reconnect consumers’ plates with local farms. Simultaneously,…

Instead of farming animals, fish and plants, cellular agriculture grows the proteins and nutrients we consume from a culture, cell by cell.

Will the plate of the future consist of meat without animals, eggs without chickens and milk without…

Editor: Tyson Foods, one of the biggest meat businesses in the world, is joining Bill Gates, Richard Branson (virgin.com), Cargill, the second-largest beef producer in the world along with many others are investing in Memphis Meats and other cellular and acellular agricultural companies aiming to grow sustainable meat from muscle cells. Clean Meat.

Startup companies are racing to find alternatives to livestock and what we eat, according to The Guardian Monday. Startups want to change the food industry by providing alternatives to meat and dairy

Lab-grown meat and food-tech companies in the US are showing that applying science to what we eat can save the world and make money

$8.7 trillion in sustainable investments is helping to change the vegan food system as investors look toward a prosperous future filled with innovative food tech.

More entrepreneurs are becoming choosier when it comes to where they put their cash

BI PRIME: Arvind Gupta, the founder of a fast-growing Silicon Valley biotech incubator called IndieBio, couldn’t care less about a startup’s lofty vision for th

Tyson Ventures, the Chicago-based venture capital arm of Tyson Foods, wants in on the alternative protein game.

Thankfully, two graphics shared on Twitter by the Future of Food Technology Conference help break it all down!

Memphis Meats, a clean meat startup company using cellular agriculture, just announced its clean poultry will be available to the mass market by 2021. Get ready for clean Duck L’Orange and fried chicken.

In 2017, a Pew study showed that nearly a third of people would be willing to eat “clean” meat regularly or as a replacement for traditional meat.

Bill Gates and Richard Branson invested in Memphis Meats, a start-up that makes lab-grown meat alongside Tyson Foods and Cargill. It’s a sector set to boom.

WINSTON CHURCHILL made a prediction back in 1931. In an article for The Strand Magazine he wrote that by the 1980s humanity would have given up on the ‘absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium’. The wily Winston was… View Article

Lab-grown meat: Here’s a quick look at how close this food tech is to happening, who’s working on it, and why it’s so great.

Vegans are the largest demographic willing to sample cell-cultured protein, but nearly 30% of meat eaters also are interested in the product.

Lab Grown Meat will be served in restaurants by the end of 2018 and it will be healthier

The latest craze in the food industry, in vitro or “clean” meat, is produced by extracting stem cells from animals and then growing and multiplying those cells in a lab to create a piece of meat.

The cells “start to divide and start to form new muscle tissues. … (We) let them proliferate until we have trillions of cells,” explained Dr. Mark Post, CEO of Mosa Meats, one of the earliest creators of clean meat. The process of making a hamburger patty takes about nine weeks.

Alternatives to conventionally raised and processed meat — whose water and land use and the controversy around their drug-boosted growth has some consumers rethinking their food sources — and plant-based protein are positioned to grab nearly one-third of the global protein market in the next few decades.

Richard Branson believes ‘clean and plant-based meat will become the norm’ in the future.

He says the meat and dairy substitutes industry could be worth $40 billion by 2020

Their “clean meat” aims to bypass the ethical and environmental concerns many conscious eaters raise over the production of meat. Would you eat it?

Strange it may sound but milk can be produced without cow, eggs without hen, and meat without slaughtering animals. Welcome to the world of ‘cellular agriculture’ where products such as

A weekly recap of some of the most interesting venture capital deals, funds and start-ups.

Memphis Meats is producing meats that do not come from grown animals but from their cells instead.

Now there can be meat without the slaughter or breeding of animals.

From burgers to beer-battered chicken breasts, the future of meat is cruelty-free, nutritious and 100% delicious.

It will become impossible to feed billions of people through ‘large-scale animal agriculture’

Big names have been investing in vegan businesses, and it’s leaving the animal agricultural sectors fearful of their future.

In a new book, Paul Shapiro of the Humane Society spells out why the world is ready for cellular agriculture and plant-based meat revolution, and what it will take to move the concepts out of science fiction and into reality.

Do you love meat but feel guilty because of the practices of the meat industry? Memphis Meats may be your answer.

The meat industry researchers are expecting meat without animals to hit shelves in 2021. This aims to eliminate animal slaughter for meat production.

Culinary innovations won’t just change how food is created, they’ll also create whole new flavours

Clean meat opens up the possibility that people will no longer have to choose between eating meat and saving the world: they can do both.

And it’s not just because Leonardo DiCaprio’s on board.

Why Fermentation Is the Future of Food Tech

Developing new plant-based protein meals is now seen as an opportunity for market growth in big companies, rather than a threat to their way of life.

A cruelty-free alternative to meat-eating is currently in development.

Here are some of the approaches being taken in biotech that in the next few years could change the food that we’re scarfing down on Christmas Day.

If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em! In October of last year, we shared the news that Tyson Foods, the world’s largest processor and marketer of chicken, beef, and pork, took a five percent ownership stake in plant-based protein producer Beyond Meat, makers of the vegan Beyond Burger.

Looking back at the past twelve months, Meat & Poultry has put together a ‘Year in Review 2017’ which picks up the ‘hot topics’ from the past year.

A new startup is working to create dog food with lab-grown meats in order to cut down on the environmental degradation caused by the animal protein industry—and up the transparency of the pet food industry.

It’s a major development during a robust period for vegan-backed food companies, which have been aggressively working to get meat alternatives into the marketplace.

Lab-grown, cultured meats, dairy, and leather will be hitting shelves soon. Paul Shapiro reports on the coming trend in his new book, Clean Meat.

Aquaculture has been touted as a panacea for collapsing fish stocks, but it comes with environmental baggage. Food futurist Dr Rosie Bosworth says ‘clean fish’ – grown in a lab – could be the most sustainable fish stock of all.

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