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IKEA to make half of its restaurant meals plant-based by 2025

GrégoryDecember 1, 2020November 27, 2020

Furniture retailer IKEA said Monday that it plans to make half of its restaurant menu meal offerings plant-based by 2025.Eighty percent of offerings will be non–red meat, and 80% of...

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World’s Only Public Cultivated Meat Company, Meat-Tech 3D, Files for IPO in USA

GrégoryNovember 25, 2020November 22, 2020

Meat-Tech successfully printed a piece of cultured beef in August, and launched a company aimed at developing cultured chicken in September. Just last week, Meat-Tech announced it planned to acquire...

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VC Panel of Cultured Meat Symposium – CMS20 Online

GrégoryNovember 19, 2020November 19, 2020

Nik Talreja, 18.venturesLisa Feria, Stray Dog CapitalPrince Khaled bin Alwaleed, KBW VenturesAndrew Ive, Big Idea VenturesMariliis Holm, Sustainable Food Ventures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa7Y23Gl_tY

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Alternative meat and dairy companies are raking in investment

GrégoryAugust 22, 2020August 11, 2020

“Cultivated” or “cell-based” meat companies, growing food from animal cells, raised 417% more than in all of 2019. In part, it’s a continuation of a long-term trend. “2019 really appeared...

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What’s Next for the Alternative Meat Industry?

GrégoryAugust 21, 2020August 11, 2020

Consider the combination of the crops being used: soy, wheat, and pea protein are the most typical. This invokes the debate about wheat versus soy, about GMO versus non-GMO. As...

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Milestone: Over 80x reduction in our medium cost

GrégoryAugust 19, 2020August 11, 2020

Last year, the MO team successfully removed Fetal Bovine Serum (FBS) from our media. Given FBS is the standard used in cell culturing, this was no small task. But FBS...

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BIV’s Ive: “Alternative meat is a revolution not an evolution”

GrégoryAugust 15, 2020August 11, 2020

Plant-based foods are not just incremental evolution of an existing category, but a revolution, according to Andrew D. Ive, founder and general partner of Big Idea Ventures (BIV). Driving this...

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The future of cell-based protein: ‘Food manufacturers should look at this as an opportunity’

GrégoryJuly 17, 2020July 17, 2020

Cell-based cultured protein is an industry still in its infancy. Food makers should look at the emerging field as an opportunity to collaborate and invest in the sector’s development, according...

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Opinion | Is Meat Grown in a Lab Really Meat?

GrégoryJuly 9, 2020July 11, 2020

Revising our understanding of meat to make room for in vitro meat involves a similar move. We should strip down our understanding of meat so that an element previously deemed...

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To meat, or not to meat: The future of Japanese cellular agriculture

GrégoryMay 2, 2020April 28, 2020

Taken together, Japan’s nascent vegan movement, desire for meat and willingness to experiment with new technology stand Hanyu in good stead. Add land shortages and continued funding interest to the...