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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...

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How to Sustainably Feed 10 Billion People by 2050, in 21 Charts

GrégoryJanuary 25, 2020February 17, 2020

Limiting ruminant meat consumption to 52 calories per person per day by 2050—about 1.5 hamburgers per week—would reduce the GHG mitigation gap by half and nearly close the land gap....

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Alternative Meat Market Set To See Solid Growth

GrégoryAugust 16, 2019August 16, 2019

The global alternative meat market is forecast to keep growing in the US, helped by increasing interest in diets such as vegetarian, vegan and flexitarian. According to GlobalData, the alternative...