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Business Insider
The FDA cleared the way for Impossible Foods to sell its signature "bleeding" veggie burger in grocery stores.
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Singularity Hub
Public attitudes about cultured meat are all over the place. Overlooking the details may spell trouble for its acceptance in the US and internationally.
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Business Insider
A new lab-grown meat startup called Meatable is taking on the industry's key hurdle by coming up with a way to make truly slaughter-free meat without relying on cow fetus blood, or "serum." The Dutch startup partnered with Cambridge and uses proprietary stem cell technology for faster production.
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Quartz
Lab-grown meat will feed future populations and save the environment.
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BBC
There's a looming crisis over the world's appetite for meat. This chicken nugget may be the answer.
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Reddit
75 votes, 26 comments. The subreddit frequently features highly upvoted posts on cell-based meat, reflecting the media attention and public interest …
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Cell Based Tech
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The Atlantic
Companies are racing to develop real chicken, fish, and beef that don’t require killing animals. Here’s what’s standing in their way.
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Tech Crunch
Fish make up 16% of animal protein consumed globally, and demand is set to rise. But overfishing is hugely problematic -- and it’s not sustainable to continue with the way things are.
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Bloomberg Business
Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) – Beyond Meat, maker of plant-based "chicken" and "ground beef," will aim for the heart of the carnivorous market with a soy-protein-base...
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Recode
Impossible Foods CEO Pat Brown and acclaimed professional chef Dominique Crenn talk with Recode's Peter Kafka about their efforts to change how people think ...
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Fast Company
Easy to grow and packed with protein, these organisms may make our food system more efficient and less resource-intensive. After years of trying, food companies are poised to start an algae revolution.
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Bloomberg
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CNN Money
In the middle of the New Mexican desert there's a company called iWi that's farming algae for people to eat. Could this miracle marine plant feed our growing...
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Asia Tatler
With his Silicon Valley company Impossible Foods, biochemist Pat Brown is producing plant-derived meat that is winning taste tests across the US and Asia.
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Fast Company
As Beyond Meat and Impossible Burger become household products, the first lab-grown meat could reach restaurant tables.
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Nanalyze
Animal-based foods make up the majority of our proteins today. But new alternative protein sources, from methane to plants, are changing what's on the menu.
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Veg News
Good Food Institute Senior Scientist Liz Specht: “It’s all but inevitable that the plant-based meat industry will eventually be cost-competitive with conventional meat. In fact, this tipping point may hit relatively soon …”
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Tech Crunch
Imitation meat is poised to expand its presence in our diets exponentially, if the success of dueling faux burger companies Impossible and Beyond are any indication — but where's the chicken? Planted is a brand new Swiss company that claims its ultra-simple meatless poultry is nearly indistinguishable from the real thing, better in other ways, and soon, cheaper.
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Tech Crunch
We met with a handful of Brinc’s top startups earlier this week during a visit to the accelerator’s Hong Kong headquarters. The lion’s share of the demos involved hardware products, which has long been the organization’s core offering. Increasingly, however, food-focused startups like Phuture Foods have become an important focus. Whereas stateside companies like Beyond […]
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CNBC
Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons is testing JUST's plant-based eggs.
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Outside
Alt meat isn't going to stay alt for long, and cattle are looking more and more like stranded assets.
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Vox
The growing pushback against Impossible and Beyond burgers in fast-food chains, explained
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New York Times
Tyson, Smithfield, Perdue and Hormel have all rolled out meat alternatives, filling supermarket shelves with an array of plant-based burgers, meatballs and chicken nuggets.
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McKinsey & Company
Consumer interest in non-meat-based protein options is increasing globally. Food industry players that want to capture the alternative protein opportunity must understand the evolving market dynamics and where to place their bets.
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The Atlantic
Carnivores are falling for the magic of a longer menu full of plant-based options.
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BBC
Finnish scientists say the food could be grown with near-zero greenhouse gas emissions.
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Wired
Fast-growing networks of mycelial filaments can replicate meat’s texture—without meat’s carbon footprint. Just add flavor and fry it up.
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The Guardian
Supermarkets stock up as millions of UK flexitarians boost demand for fake meat
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CNET
Commentary: I haven't eaten beef in a decade, and the new fake meat at CES comes close enough to cow to gross me out. That's a compliment, I think.
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CNBC
"The burger is something people love," Ethan Brown, founder of Beyond Meat, tells CNBC Make It. "And so we went after that core part of the American diet," with company's most well-known product, Beyond Burger. The company's investors include Bill Gates, Leonardo DiCaprio and even former McDonald's CEO Don Thompson and America's largest meat processor, Tyson Foods. It filed for an IPO in November.
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San Francisco Chronicle
The competition between the nation’s two highest-profile plant-based burgers has...
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CNET
Burger King has become the largest restaurant chain to embrace plant-based meat. See what Impossible Foods had to do to win over the King. For more on 100% v...
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Financial Post
It's the latest move in Maple Leaf's push from cold cuts, hot dogs and chicken into the realm of meatless meat
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Wired
Covid-19 has laid bare many flaws of industrialized animal agriculture. Plant- and cell-based alternatives offer a more resilient solution.
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BBC
Seafood is difficult to veganise well, but some companies are betting on new technologies and customers to overcome the challenges.
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Veg News
Plant-based startup DAIZ—which aims to become “the fourth meat,” alongside beef, chicken, and pork—will open one of the largest plant-based meat factories in Japan.
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Talk Economics Today
Let’s cut to the chase. What would happen if, overnight, the world turned vegetarian? — A lot could happen. Due to the sudden increase in demand, the price of vegetarian food will rise. This may be a result of either, initially, firms not being able to supply enough food to meet demand creating a shortage…
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BBC
Eliminating meat from our diets would bring a bounty of benefits to both our own health and the planet’s – but it could also harm millions of people. Rachel Nuwer investigates.
