Category: Cultured Meat
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Wildtype, the San Francisco-based startup specializing in cultivated salmon, announced today that it has launched a Kickstarter campaign for cell-cultured lox that will ship directly to consumers’ homes. The Kickstarter campaign appears to be not only the first rewards-based Kickstarter campaign for a cultivated animal product, but also the first direct-to-consumer offering built around delivering…
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For years, Alex Shirazi has helped tell the story of the cultivated meat industry through conferences, podcasts, and public-facing education. But as these once science-fiction-y products slowly moved from labs toward early commercialization, he began to feel that something was missing. “While there is plenty of discussion about cultivated meat, very little attention is paid…
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Cultivated meat companies spent much of the last decade promising to help fend off the climate crisis while also helping to wean the world off animal agriculture. However, as the industry transitioned from bench scale to pilot facilities and eventually to scaled manufacturing, costs increased and timelines lengthened. This shift happened just as the venture…
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In London’s East End, a food revolution is bubbling – a high-tech movement promising to change our way of life. Although still in its infancy, with significant early-stage obstacles to overcome, it could become the biggest agricultural disruptor since the advent of farming. I’m talking about cellular agriculture – meat, fish, milk, proteins, and fats…
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Cultivated meat companies have struggled over the past year as they try to figure out how to do something that’s never been done before: grow meat in large quantities in big metal vats. Part of the challenge is figuring out how to grow the meat cells. The technology to do this has been borrowed from…
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Over the past few years, companies in food tech product development have begun to utilize machine learning and other AI techniques to accelerate the development of their products. One of those companies is Biocraft, a company focused on developing pet food utilizing cultured meat as its primary protein input. The company announced in May they…
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According to a report published by cell-cultured seafood startup BluNalu, consumers value the absence of parasites and mercury in cell-cultured seafood, especially among those who frequently eat sushi. The data, sourced from a survey conducted by a market research specialist in 2022 and featured in a comprehensive report by BluNalu this week, displays how consumers…
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Now that the cultivated meat industry has achieved the long-awaited milestone of going on sale to consumers in the US, the focus will increasingly turn to whether it’s possible to make meat outside the animal more affordably. After all, it’s cool to make meat using a process that sounds straight out of pages of a…
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Today marks a big day for cultivated meat as two companies, UPSIDE Foods and Good Meat, announced today that they had received approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to sell their cultivated meat products to consumers. According to UPSIDE, the news came in the form of notification from the USDA that they have…
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I had the opportunity to talk to Roee Nir, CEO and co-founder of Forsea. Forsea is producing cultivated seafood, starting with cultivated eel. Prior to Forsea, Nir headed the business development for a biopharmaceutical company in immunology. We chatted about the differences between cultivated meat and cultivated seafood, customer preferences, navigating the regulatory environment, the…
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When Nathan Myhrvold talked about recreating meat from long-extinct species at Smart Kitchen Summit, he went back as far as the dinosaur period. While Vow hasn’t quite done that (yet), they have created a meatball using protein derived from the gene sequence of the woolly mammoth myoglobin, the protein which gives meat its color and…
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Last week, two contrasting stories painting very different pictures emerged from the cultivated meat industry. The first highlighted the news that GOOD Meat, the cultivated meat arm of Eat Just, had received a “no questions” letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its cultivated meat product. This makes the company the second to…
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