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Last news (more)
- Study: Animal-Free Milk Generates 96% Fewer Emissions Than Dairy
- JBS pushes forward with fresh investment in cell-based meat
- Why ‘Climate-Friendly’ Meat Is a Myth
- Cultivated meat: the future of food or just another fad? – September 28th – 3PM
- Sr. Scientist – Media Development, Cultured Meat at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
- The next wave: Alternative seafood solutions
- Senior Bioprocess Engineer Pilot at GOURMEY – Paris
- New Research Collaboration Accelerates Meatafora’s Product Development
- La viande cellulaire se fraye un chemin vers nos assiettes
- Insiders Reveal Major Problems at Lab-Grown-Meat Startup Upside Foods
- Inside Hoxton Farms, The First UK Cultured-Fat Pilot Plant And Its Secret Weapon
- UPSIDE Foods Announces Cultivated Meat Production Plant in Chicagoland
- The Future of Protein Production Live – Amsterdam – October 11th & 12th 2023
- Cultivated meat researchers get €1.8 million to solve commercialisation barriers
- Orthodox Union certifies cultivated meat
- Raleigh biotech startup making protein not sourced from animals raises $3.5M
- Carrefour, Unilever & Danone Lead Plant-Based Coalition in France
- Cultured Meat Symposium 2023 – Thu, Nov 2, 2023 at 9:00 AM – Las Vegas
Compagnies and key players (more)
- New Research Collaboration Accelerates Meatafora’s Product DevelopmentThe procurement of research breakthroughs from the leading research university has yielded two pivotal milestones for the company. The first involves the … Read more
- Insiders Reveal Major Problems at Lab-Grown-Meat Startup Upside FoodsThe facility, Upside says, demonstrates to the world exactly how this novel meat is made. “We’re starting to show, from day one, … Read more
- Inside Hoxton Farms, The First UK Cultured-Fat Pilot Plant And Its Secret WeaponHoxton Farms, the London-based biotech developing cultivated animal fat, opens on September 21st its first pilot facility in the center of London … Read more
- UPSIDE Foods Announces Cultivated Meat Production Plant in ChicagolandSituated in the dynamic community of Glenview, Illinois, just north of Chicago, our 187,000-square-foot facility – located adjacent to a nature preserve … Read more
- Raleigh biotech startup making protein not sourced from animals raises $3.5MJellatech, a Raleigh-based biotech company, has announced an oversubscribed Seed round with $3.5 million raised. According to the SEC filing, eight investors … Read more
- UK biotech Clean Food Group lands £2.3M funding to halt palm oil-linked deforestation with lab-grown breakthroughThe UK startup known for its innovative sustainable oils and fats technology, has secured an additional £2.3 million in funding to expedite … Read more
- CellRev and Saint-Gobain Life Sciences partner to reduce price of cell-based meatUK-based bioprocessing company CellRev has announced a joint development agreement (JDA) with Saint-Gobain Life Sciences (SGLS), a global provider of fluid management … Read more
- CULT Food Science partners with Everything But for cell-cultivated chickenCULT Food Science Corp., a pioneer in the investment, development, and commercialization of cellular agriculture technologies and products, announced a partnership with … Read more
- Cultivated Startup Omeat Launches B2B Ethical FBS AlternativePlenty is created using regenerative plasma drawn humanely from cows that graze freely on Omeat’s carbon-negative farm. Collected weekly, the process to … Read more
Events (more)
- Cultivated meat: the future of food or just another fad? – September 28th – 3PM
- The Future of Protein Production Live – Amsterdam – October 11th & 12th 2023
- Cultured Meat Symposium 2023 – Thu, Nov 2, 2023 at 9:00 AM – Las Vegas
- Regulating the Future of Foods Conference – 23rd-24th November 2023 – Barcelona
- Downstream Processing for Alternative Proteins & Cellular Agriculture Summit – San Francisco – September 26-28, 2023
Jobs (more)
- Sr. Scientist – Media Development, Cultured Meat at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
- Senior Bioprocess Engineer Pilot at GOURMEY – Paris
- PhD Studentship in Biology – Cultivated meat: safety and quality characterisation during production scale up at Newcastle University
- Researcher Sustainable Cell-feed & Bioreactor researcher at RESPECTfarms
- Remote Biotechnology Marketing Internship at Cultured Meat Symposium
Laws, ethics and lobbies (more)
- Why ‘Climate-Friendly’ Meat Is a MythThe Brazen Climate Friendly Ground Beef Burger was developed under Tyson’s own Climate Smart Beef Program, supported by taxpayer funds. On its … Read more
- France makes fresh bid to ban meat names for plant-based foodFrance unveiled on Monday revised proposals banning the use of meat names like “steak” and “spare ribs” for plant-based food made in … Read more
- Public policies and vested interests preserve the animal farming status quo at the expense of animal product analogsResearch to improve animal product analogs is led by private companies and has only recently been supported by public funds. A shift … Read more
- World Farmer’s Org. rejects cultivated meat“The WFO strongly opposes replacing farmer-grown food with lab-made food stuff,” the organization said. “Such substitutes dismiss the work and contribution of … Read more
- Mosa Meat and Meatable welcome agreement with Dutch government to conduct pre-approval tastings of cultivated meat & seafood in The NetherlandsToday it is being announced that cultivated meat and seafood can soon be taste tested under limited conditions in The Netherlands. The … Read more
- EU novel foods regulation ‘hindering innovation’ in meat alternatives sectorNovel foods regulation is a ‘huge hurdle’ said Leonie Jahn, co-founder MATR Foods, which is producing plant-based meat alternatives based on fungal … Read more
- Upside Foods, Eat Just Earn USDA Label Approval for Cultivated Meat: ‘A Major Step Forward’California’s Upside Foods earns USDA label approval for its cultivated meat just days after Eat Just earned the same clearance for its … Read more
- Government mulls fast-track for lab-grown meat approvalOne of Deloitte’s most controversial suggestions is that the UK should adopt a system of “collaborative regulation” under which, instead of the … Read more
- Cruelty-Free Cultivated Meat Just Took a Step Closer to US ApprovalIn a post on LinkedIn, Eat Just revealed that Sanah Baig, the USDA Deputy Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics had … Read more
Market (more)
- The next wave: Alternative seafood solutionsThis means future growth cannot rely on incremental growth in wild-caught seafood. And while aquaculture has been the primary source of new … Read more
- Sustainable protein in the UK: an ecosystem reviewGFI Europe’s analysis maps hotspots of an emerging UK sustainable protein ecosystem. By implementing our nine recommendations, policymakers can create the enabling … Read more
- Investments’ changing alt-meat targetsCultivated meat companies have mostly bounced around about 25% of funds invested in the sector, a healthy portion of the available capital … Read more
- Food Frontier Report: Opportunities Abound as Asia’s Alternative Protein Market GrowsWith meat and seafood consumption in Asia slated for 78% growth by 2050, according to a 2018 report from Asia Research & … Read more
- Meat-Eating In Germany Hits A Record LowThe central European country is famous for meaty foods like schnitzel and sausages. Its residents, however, are increasingly moving away from these … Read more
- From Burgers to Biotech: Navigating the Alternative Protein Business Model LandscapeIn this article, I delve into the world of alternative proteins, exploring different business models that companies adopt and examining how these … Read more
- Cultivated meat: Foodtech fantasy or the future of meat? ‘None of this stuff makes any commercial sense until everyone’s eating it’Speaking at a panel debate moderated by AFN at SynBioBeta, three high-profile cultivated meat startups acknowledged that the media narrative around the … Read more
- ‘There Is No Alternative’: Lidl Announces Plans To Reduce Meat In StoresTo support its decision to deprioritize animal products, Lidl plans to release a sustainability report later this year. The analysis will focus … Read more
- For love of meat: Five consumer trends in China that global meat executives need to understandDespite growing awareness of sustainability and the emerging desire to reduce meat consumption, alternative meat has gained little traction in China. Only … Read more
Research (more)
- Environmental life cycle assessment of recombinant growth factor production for cultivated meat applicationsLife cycle inventories were developed for four recombinant growth factors (IGF-1, FGF, TGF-β, and PDGF) produced using a novel bench-scale process. The … Read more
- Scientists reprogram connective tissue cells into muscle stem cells without genetic engineeringFinally, Bar-Nur and his team would like to incorporate their new findings into their ongoing work with cow cells—another research stream of … Read more
- Are You Sceptical About Cultivated Meat? A New Study Explains The Reason WhyThe research found that food technology neophobia strongly impacts consumer acceptance of cultured meat. It has negative effects on their behavioural intentions … Read more
- Do Consumers Perceive Cultivated Meat as a Sustainable Substitute to Conventional Meat? Assessing the Facilitators and Inhibitors of Cultivated Meat AcceptanceConventional meat production has become a force of environmental damage, but global meat consumption is predicted to continue increasing. Therefore, the technology … Read more
- Cultured Meat and FarmersIn a two-year study, a team led by the RAU is asking what farmers think of cultured meat, then modelling how real … Read more
- Interest in Alternative Protein Products Is Growing, but Taste and Price Are Its Biggest BarriersMany Americans said they’ve never heard of newer alternative proteins, including mycoprotein (71%); cell-cultured (60%), cell-based (55%), and cultivated (48%) meat; and … Read more
- Eating less meat ‘like taking 8m cars off road’Prof Peter Scarborough, of Oxford University, who led the new research, told BBC News: ”Our results show that if everyone in the … Read more
- Co-culture approaches for cultivated meat productionThe need and demand for sustainable, nutritious and animal-welfare-conscious meat substitutes has spurred research into cultivated meat production. Meat mainly contains muscle … Read more
- Iron bioavailability should be considered when modeling omnivorous, vegetarian, and vegan dietsTo lower environmental impact of human food consumption, replacement of animal proteins with plant-based proteins is encouraged. However, the lower iron bioavailability … Read more
Other alternatives to meat (more)
- Study: Animal-Free Milk Generates 96% Fewer Emissions Than DairyThe results show that Bon Vivant’s milk generates 96% fewer emissions than cow’s milk, while using 99% less water, 92% less land, … Read more
- Carrefour, Unilever & Danone Lead Plant-Based Coalition in FranceThe French government has proposed a law banning meat-related terms like ‘steak’, ‘ham’ and ‘beef’ on plant-based alternatives made and sold in … Read more
- Jimi Biotech successfully develops “world’s first” deer antler stem cell lineChina-based cell-ag company Jimi Biotech has announced the successful development of the “world’s first” deer antler stem cell line, making it the … Read more
- Making Food with Microbes: Precision Fermentation Market to Reach $34.9 billion by 2031magazineThe global precision fermentation market size was valued at $1.3 billion in 2021 and is estimated to reach $34.9 billion by 2031, … Read more
- Saudi officials ink deals to develop plant-based food alternativesOfficials from the Saudi Ministry of Environment, Water, and Agriculture recently signed two agreements to transform agricultural plant products into plant-based foods … Read more
- Molecular farming: IngredientWerks grows heme protein in corn at ‘unprecedented low cost’Spun off from biotech firm AgriVida last year, Woburn, Massachusetts-based IngredientWerks has filed patents covering the expression of myoglobin, leghemoglobin, and casein … Read more
- Gelatin Substitute Made From Peas Emerges From University of AlbertaThe Univeristy of Alberta team says the discovery occurred by accident during an experiment when the team realized that certain conditions, like … Read more
- ProVeg Incubator Seeks Cultivated Octopus – “It’s What the World Needs Now”ProVeg’s startup Incubator programme is inviting founders, whether those who may be able to cultivate octopus or those offering another solution to … Read more
- How a more ethical “faux” gras could change fine diningDemetrius Simms at Robb Report also published an article about Borgel’s faux gras in December 2022, stating that “the combined result appears … Read more