cultured meat
Vegan ‘Wagyu Beef’ Has Arrived in Australia
Australian food group JAT Oppenheimer—a partnership between Jatenergy and Oppenheimer—recently launched a vegan version of Wagyu beef. Asian Australian supermarkets currently stock the vegan Wagyu beef under the name V Meat. JAT Oppenheimer aims to...
EU Pledges €10 Billion for Plant-Based and Alternative Proteins
The European Commission presented its plans to help the European Union become carbon neutral by 2050 on Wednesday. As part of the European Green Deal, the Commission, the executive branch of the EU, has...
How Meat Will Actually Help Avoid Future Pandemics
(Updated April 20, 2020) | The COVID-19 coronavirus crisis has exposed the dangerous link between infectious organisms and industrial animal agriculture. More importantly, it has revealed the need to move away from animal meat...
This Belgian Company Is Growing Animal Fat and Liver In a Lab
Peace of Meat is on a mission to transform the multi-billion dollar meat industry. The Belgian startup has developed its first products: cultured animal fat and liver. Per Vegconomist, the company has produced 20 grams...
New Report Exposes How Unsustainable the Meat Industry Really Is
A new report says the meat industry is unsustainable. It proposes a large-scale shift to plant-based and cultured meat instead. The global meat industry is currently worth more than $2 trillion. The production of meat...
What the Pet Food Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know
The number of households that include a four-legged, furry friend (or several) is at an all-time high. A whopping 68 percent of U.S. households have a pet, the American Pet Products Association (APPA) found...
Russian Scientists Just Made the First Lab-Grown Meatloaf
Scientists in Russia have produced the country's first sample of clean meat, also called cultured or cell-based meat. Food technology company Ochakov Food Ingredients Plant (OKPI) cultivated lab-grown meatloaf. Clean meat is created through the...
What Is Lab Meat and Is It Vegan?
(Updated April 1, 2020) | Cultured meat—also called lab-grown, cell-based, and clean meat—could be on dinner tables sooner than once thought. The futuristic cellular agriculture industry is only becoming busier. Some say lab meat...
Lab-Grown Foie Gras Will Be in Restaurants By 2021
Lab-grown food could soon satisfy the world's appetite for meat, according to Yuki Hanyu, co-founder and CEO of startup IntegriCulture Inc. The Japanese cultured meat company wants to see its slaughter-free foie gras served...
Lab-Grown Bug Meat Is the Cruelty-Free Protein Of the Future
Would you eat bug meat? What if it was lab-grown? One day, you might have a chance. Natalie Rubio -- a scientist and researcher at Tufts University -- is working to make lab-grown insect...
This Small UK Town Is Growing Bacon on Blades of Grass
The clean meat industry is revving its engine, preparing to launch various slaughter-free meats to market. Companies in the US, Israel, and Japan are working hard to make cruelty-free meat available to the masses,...
How Scientists Are Growing Meat and Saving Endangered Animals at the Same Time
Researchers at the University of Oslo in Norway are compiling the world's first biobank of animal cells to help develop lab-grown meat, real meat grown with animal cells, and save endangered species. Gareth Sullivan, vice...
This Is Why Venture Capital Funds Are Betting On Vegan and Cultured Meat
The way that consumers choose their food is evolving - now, more than ever, shoppers are choosing plant-based in the grocery store - and venture capital (VC) funds are taking notice. Last year, total plant-based...
World’s First Clean Meat Pork Sausages Taste-Tested By Investors
Lab-grown meat startup New Age Meats"made history" on Monday by providing a private tasting of its slaughter-free pork sausages, Business Insider reports. Like the real thing, the prototype clean pork sausage is comprised of cell-based pork...
FDA to Determine Whether or Not Clean Meat is Real ‘Meat’
The FDA says it will start the process of regulating clean meat products made through cellular agriculture. Often called lab-grown meat or cultured meat, the meat is produced from animal tissue that's grown from...
Clean Meat Market Set to Hit $20 Million in Value by 2027
A new report released by market research firm Markets and Markets has revealed that the global clean meat market is expected to reach $20 million by 2027 with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR)...
Tyson Foods Invests $2.2 Million in Israeli Clean Meat Startup Future Meat Technologies
Leading U.S. meat, pork, and chicken producer, Tyson Foods, has invested $2.2 million in the Israeli clean meat startup Future Meat Technologies (FMT) via its Tyson Ventures venture capital arm. “This is our first investment...
Pioneering Israeli Clean Meat Researcher Receives Rare Honor in Washington
Yaakov Nahmias, an Israeli biomedical engineer and pioneering clean meat researcher, has been inducted as a fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), headquartered in Washington DC. Nahmias, a professor at...
41% of Brits to Eat Lab-Grown Clean Meat and Fish in Next Decade, Says...
According to new data by British research company Starcom, 41 percent of British people will be eating lab-grown meat and fish within the next decade. Lab-grown meat, also known as "clean meat" or "cultured meat"...
Clean Meat Brand Secures $3 Million to Produce Slaughter-Free ‘Chicken’
SuperMeat, the Israeli producer of lab-grown clean meat has raised $3 million in funding, the company announced today. The company used a crowdfunding campaign in 2016 to raise more than $200,000, but this investment will...