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Last news (more)
- Bio Future Food Industry Association Launches in South Korea to Boost the Cultivated Meat Sector
- UK first European country to approve lab-grown meat, starting with pet food
- UK Farmers Recognise Potential Benefits of Cultivated Meat
- Sustainable Synergies – Lessons from the Adoption of Electric Vehicles
- Culture Clash? What cultured meat could mean for UK farming
- Could Labour Hamper the UK’s Novel Food Regulatory Reform?
- State of the Alt Protein Job Market July 2024
- [job] Scientist – Mosa Meat – Maastricht
- Quorn’s hybrid meat product aimed at flexitarians
- Recent advances in scaffolding biomaterials for cultivated meat
- Leading Lab-Grown Meat Company Cuts Dozens of Jobs
- Hungarian presidency launches offensive against ‘novel’ food to defend EU’s ‘culinary tradition’
- Annual Summit – Integrative Center for Alternative Meat and Protein (iCAMP) – September 9th – Davis (USA) 🗓
- Plant-Based Food and Beverage Summit – Berlin – 19/20 of September 🗓
- Livestock Labs is creating stable cell lines with desirable characteristics to advance commercial production of cultivated meat
- Uma Valeti: Is cultivated meat the future of food? at TED Talk
- Top stories in Cultivated Meat – June 2024
- Navigating ultra-processed foods: getting clarity on complexity
Compagnies and key players (more)
- Bio Future Food Industry Association Launches in South Korea to Boost the Cultivated Meat SectorThe Bio Future Food Industry Association has launched in South Korea to support and develop the country’s cultivated meat sector. Established under… Read more: Bio Future Food Industry Association Launches in South Korea to Boost the Cultivated Meat Sector
- UK first European country to approve lab-grown meat, starting with pet foodLab-grown pet food is to hit UK shelves as Britain becomes the first country in Europe to approve cultivated meat. The Animal… Read more: UK first European country to approve lab-grown meat, starting with pet food
- Leading Lab-Grown Meat Company Cuts Dozens of JobsUpside Foods has cut its workforce as the industry continues to struggle with bans from legislators and a significant downturn in venture… Read more: Leading Lab-Grown Meat Company Cuts Dozens of Jobs
- Livestock Labs is creating stable cell lines with desirable characteristics to advance commercial production of cultivated meatLivestock Labs, which recently pitched at the Future Food Tech Alternative Proteins Summit in Chicago, uses advanced genetic engineering, data analytics and… Read more: Livestock Labs is creating stable cell lines with desirable characteristics to advance commercial production of cultivated meat
- Earth Venture Capital Invests in Orbillion Bio to Scale Up Cultivated Meat ProductionEarth Venture Capital (Earth VC), a global climate tech venture capital firm based in Vietnam, has announced its strategic investment in the… Read more: Earth Venture Capital Invests in Orbillion Bio to Scale Up Cultivated Meat Production
- Don’t write off cultivated meat just yet, says Ever After FoodsA spinoff from regenerative medicine company Pluri, which is also backed by Israeli food co Tnuva Group, Ever After Foods has exclusive… Read more: Don’t write off cultivated meat just yet, says Ever After Foods
- Bezos Center for Sustainable Protein Opens at Imperial College London, Will Receive $30M in FundingThe Bezos Earth Fund has announced the launch of a new Bezos Center for Sustainable Protein at Imperial College London.The Center will… Read more: Bezos Center for Sustainable Protein Opens at Imperial College London, Will Receive $30M in Funding
- AgriFood Growth and Water Abundance partners with Believer Meats to develop cultivated meat capabilities in Abu DhabiBeliever Meats will pursue establishing a regional headquarters in Abu Dhabi that can support commercial operations for regional market expansion, product manufacturing,… Read more: AgriFood Growth and Water Abundance partners with Believer Meats to develop cultivated meat capabilities in Abu Dhabi
- BREAKING: Cultivated meat co SCiFi Foods closes up shop“Given challenges in the fundraising market, we’ve appointed an advisory firm to run a sale process,” said cofounder and CEO Joshua March.… Read more: BREAKING: Cultivated meat co SCiFi Foods closes up shop
Events (more)
- Annual Summit – Integrative Center for Alternative Meat and Protein (iCAMP) – September 9th – Davis (USA) 🗓
- Plant-Based Food and Beverage Summit – Berlin – 19/20 of September 🗓
- CMS24 Cultured Meat Symposium – September 12-13 – Sunnyvale 🗓
- Industrializing Cultivated Meat & Seafood Summit – August 27 / 29 – Boston 🗓
- Bridge2Food Europe 2024 – 4 to 6 June 2024 – The Hague 🗓
Jobs (more)
- [job] Scientist – Mosa Meat – Maastricht
- [job] PhD – Cultivated Meat – sustainable media and upscaling – Aarhus (Danmark)
- [job] Professor – Cellular Agriculture – Tufts University – Medford
- [job] Remote Scientist (Cellular Agriculture) – REMOTE Job – Lifelancer
- [job] New Harvest, Machine Learning in Cellular Agriculture Residency – Edmonton (Canada)
Laws, ethics and lobbies (more)
- Could Labour Hamper the UK’s Novel Food Regulatory Reform?However, the new Labour administration may yet have a negative impact on the Food Standards Agency’s (FSA) plans to overhaul its regulatory… Read more: Could Labour Hamper the UK’s Novel Food Regulatory Reform?
- Hungarian presidency launches offensive against ‘novel’ food to defend EU’s ‘culinary tradition’According to a note from the Hungarian Council Presidency circulated to EU delegations and seen by Euractiv, the 27 ministers will hold… Read more: Hungarian presidency launches offensive against ‘novel’ food to defend EU’s ‘culinary tradition’
- Rep. Davidson Introduces The REAL Meat Act of 2024Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH) introduced the REAL Meat Act of 2024 today alongside 8 other House colleagues. This legislation prohibits federal funding from… Read more: Rep. Davidson Introduces The REAL Meat Act of 2024
- Alabama and Florida just outlawed this type of meat. It’s colossally stupidThe laws dealing with labeling are typically justified in the name of “consumer protection.” But in many cases, there are clear financial… Read more: Alabama and Florida just outlawed this type of meat. It’s colossally stupid
- South Korea Creates Regulation-Free Special Zone for Cultivated MeatSouth Korea has taken a massive stride towards the commercialisation of cultivated meat, designating the eastern province of Gyeongsangbuk-do a regulation-exempt zone… Read more: South Korea Creates Regulation-Free Special Zone for Cultivated Meat
- UK maps path ahead for precision fermentation and cultivated meatThe FSA said it would still conduct a through and evidence-based assessment of new products’ safety and nutritional value before they can… Read more: UK maps path ahead for precision fermentation and cultivated meat
- Meat Institute argues cellular agriculture ban will hurt Florida’s food economyThe North American Meat Association sent a letter to Gov. Ron DeSantis and legislative leaders saying a ban on cellular agriculture violates… Read more: Meat Institute argues cellular agriculture ban will hurt Florida’s food economy
- Florida’s cell-grown meat ban leaves UF researchers dividedNow, a bill that would make the creation or sale of cultivated meat a second-degree misdemeanor is making its way through the… Read more: Florida’s cell-grown meat ban leaves UF researchers divided
- India Working on Regulatory Framework for Cultivated MeatIndian newspaper The Economic Times has reported that the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) is formulating regulations for cultivated… Read more: India Working on Regulatory Framework for Cultivated Meat
Market (more)
- Sustainable Synergies – Lessons from the Adoption of Electric VehiclesMass adoption of alternative proteins is critical in tackling climate change. Animal agriculture accounts for roughly 15% to 20% of greenhouse gas… Read more: Sustainable Synergies – Lessons from the Adoption of Electric Vehicles
- Quorn’s hybrid meat product aimed at flexitariansWhile suitable for vegetarians and vegans, a large proportion of the market for plant-based meat and dairy products is made up of… Read more: Quorn’s hybrid meat product aimed at flexitarians
- Addressing the scale-cost paradox in biomanufacturingSince insulin produced by genetically engineered bacteria—rather than the pancreases of slaughtered animals—was first approved in 1982, the market for ‘biomanufactured’ products… Read more: Addressing the scale-cost paradox in biomanufacturing
- In Italy, pols seem not to speak for the populaceAccording to a study by the University of Ferrara and SWG, an Italian market research firm, Italians are curious about cultivated meat,… Read more: In Italy, pols seem not to speak for the populace
- State of the Industry Report 2023 : Cultivated meat and seafood from GFIIn the history of food and agriculture, 2023 was a milestone year—the year that real animal meat made without animals was first… Read more: State of the Industry Report 2023 : Cultivated meat and seafood from GFI
- Challenges and breakthroughs: contextualizing alternative protein progress – The Good Food InstituteThe alternative protein industry has made significant progress over the last decade-plus as products have increasingly approached the taste and texture of… Read more: Challenges and breakthroughs: contextualizing alternative protein progress – The Good Food Institute
- Cultivated Meat Struggles to Gain Traction Among Consumers, Survey FindsThe survey, which included 2,000 to 10,000 adults aged 18 to 64 per country from January to December 2023, shows a varying… Read more: Cultivated Meat Struggles to Gain Traction Among Consumers, Survey Finds
- Vinod Khosla on cultivated meat, ‘silly money’ to AI, me too startups“I think there are a lot of diamonds in the rough that will go public. What I would say is the negative… Read more: Vinod Khosla on cultivated meat, ‘silly money’ to AI, me too startups
- Bezos Earth Fund Vice Chair Lauren Sánchez Announces $60 Million to Establish Bezos Centers for Sustainable Protein“We need to feed 10 billion people with healthy, sustainable food throughout this century while protecting our planet. We can do it,… Read more: Bezos Earth Fund Vice Chair Lauren Sánchez Announces $60 Million to Establish Bezos Centers for Sustainable Protein
Research (more)
- Recent advances in scaffolding biomaterials for cultivated meatThis review summarizes the most recent scaffolding biomaterials used in the last five years for cell-cultured meat, detailing their respective advantages and… Read more: Recent advances in scaffolding biomaterials for cultivated meat
- Analysis of the Nutritional Composition of Ready-to-Use Meat Alternatives in BelgiumThis study aims to analyse the nutritional composition of ready-to-use meat alternatives and compare them with meat (products). Methods: Nutritional composition values… Read more: Analysis of the Nutritional Composition of Ready-to-Use Meat Alternatives in Belgium
- Decellularised plant scaffolds facilitate porcine skeletal muscle tissue engineering for cultivated meat biomanufacturingThe aligned vascular bundles of the decellularised asparagus scaffold were selected to facilitate the attachment and alignment of murine myoblasts (C2C12) and… Read more: Decellularised plant scaffolds facilitate porcine skeletal muscle tissue engineering for cultivated meat biomanufacturing
- Cultivated meat: research opportunities to advance cell line developmentIn this Science & Society paper, we outline challenges the industry is facing in obtaining robust cell lines for the development of… Read more: Cultivated meat: research opportunities to advance cell line development
- Stabilization of myoglobin from different species (produced by cellular agriculture) using food-grade natural and synthetic antioxidantsCellular agriculture products, like myoglobin, are increasingly used by the food industry to provide desirable sensory properties to plant-based meat substitutes. This… Read more: Stabilization of myoglobin from different species (produced by cellular agriculture) using food-grade natural and synthetic antioxidants
- Probiotic cultivated meat: bacterial-based scaffolds and products to improve cultivated meat: Trends in BiotechnologyHere, we address opportunities for introducing probiotic bacteria into the cultivated meat industry, including using them to produce renewable antimicrobials and scaffolding… Read more: Probiotic cultivated meat: bacterial-based scaffolds and products to improve cultivated meat: Trends in Biotechnology
- Advancing our understanding of bioreactors for industrial-sized cell culture: health care and cellular agriculture implicationsThis review article aims to provide an overview of the current state of bioreactor technology in both cell therapy and cultured meat… Read more: Advancing our understanding of bioreactors for industrial-sized cell culture: health care and cellular agriculture implications
- The cultural construction of cellular agriculture food: through the lens of the whole-parts framework for meatCultured meat requires a complete bottom-up process in producing objects, indicating that the concept of cultured meat is not necessarily aligned with… Read more: The cultural construction of cellular agriculture food: through the lens of the whole-parts framework for meat
- Persistent preference for meat and dairy, and a sluggish transition to a more plant-based dietAs a whole, consumer diets in the Netherlands are made up of 39% plant-based proteins and 61% animal proteins. “We’re seeing a… Read more: Persistent preference for meat and dairy, and a sluggish transition to a more plant-based diet
Other alternatives to meat (more)
- Navigating ultra-processed foods: getting clarity on complexityConfusion often arises when discussing or considering ultra-processed foods because the term itself is not uniformly defined or understood across different scientific… Read more: Navigating ultra-processed foods: getting clarity on complexity
- Danone, DMC, Michelin and Crédit Agricole Centre France to create precision fermentation platformDanone, Michelin, DMC Biotechnologies and Crédit Agricole Centre France have partnered to create the Biotech Open Platform to advance large-scale precision fermentation… Read more: Danone, DMC, Michelin and Crédit Agricole Centre France to create precision fermentation platform
- Bezos Center for Sustainable Protein established at NC StateNorth Carolina State University on Friday announced the foundation of the Bezos Center for Sustainable Protein at North Carolina State University, a… Read more: Bezos Center for Sustainable Protein established at NC State
- Two New Smart Protein Centres Signal Industry’s Potential in IndiaResearch suggests that, by 2060, 85% of India’s protein production must come from novel and traditional plant-based sources if the country is… Read more: Two New Smart Protein Centres Signal Industry’s Potential in India
- Plant-based sales up ‘significantly’ at LidlSales of plant-based alt-proteins have increased by 30% since German supermarket chain Lidl made its house-branded vegan SKUs equal in price to conventional… Read more: Plant-based sales up ‘significantly’ at Lidl
- Liberation Labs Raises $12.5M for Precision Fermentation PlantLiberation Labs’ latest capital injection of $12.5M will advance the building of its manufacturing plant in Richmond, Indiana, which is intended to… Read more: Liberation Labs Raises $12.5M for Precision Fermentation Plant
- Plant-Based Octopus Alternatives : the kraken by revo foodsThe Kraken by Revo Foods is a plant-based alternative to octopus made with fungi protein and what the Austrian startup calls a… Read more: Plant-Based Octopus Alternatives : the kraken by revo foods
- Burger King Germany’s Plant-Based Options Now Made Cheaper Than Meat ProductsBurger King in Germany has taken a significant step to promote veganism by lowering the prices of all plant-based products compared to… Read more: Burger King Germany’s Plant-Based Options Now Made Cheaper Than Meat Products
- France issues new decree to ban plant-based meat descriptorsThe French government is making another attempt to ban French manufacturers from using meat-related descriptors for plant-based foods.A new decree, issued earlier… Read more: France issues new decree to ban plant-based meat descriptors