If Plant-Based Meat Tastes This Good, Do We Even Need to Make Meat in a Lab?
There’s never been a better time to be a vegetarian. Or a flexitarian, for that matter. Gone are the days when the only veggie option at a barbecue was a […]
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Eat Mor (Fake) Chikin: Chick-Fil-A Might Add Plant-Based Meat to Its Menus
Growing up in Atlanta, there was no treat better than a crispy Chick-Fil-A chicken sandwich. These days, when I go home to visit, things are a little trickier: I’m a […]
Future Food: How Big a Deal is Beyond Meat’s IPO, Really?
This is the web version of our weekly Future Food newsletter. In it we cover the alternative protein landscape, from plant-based meat to cellular agriculture to insects. Subscribe here! Unless […]
Ecovative’s Mushroom Foam Could Solve Alternative Meat’s Texture Problem
When you bite into a juicy piece of steak — or any meat — a big part of the tasting experience is texture. It’s one of meat’s most defining characteristics, […]
Redefine Meat Serves 3D Printed “Beef” made of Plants to Unknowing Diners
This week, diners at a fancy restaurant in Israel were served an elegantly plated kebab, garnished with an eye-catching swipe of crimson sauce and thin slices of red onion. What […]
Want a Veggie ‘Disc’? EU Cracks Down on Plant-Based Meat Labeling
If you’re in the E.U., time might be running out for you to order a veggie burger or vegan sausage link. The Guardian reported this week that the agriculture committee […]
Avant Meats Develops Cultured Seafood (Fish Maw, Sea Cucumber) for a Chinese Audience
Last week we wrote a think piece about how cultured meat — that is, meat grown outside the animal in a lab setting — will likely debut in Asia. Part […]
Cultured Meat Will Likely Debut in Asia, Not Silicon Valley. Here’s Why.
It’s no longer a question of whether or not we can make meat without the animal. We can, and there are taste tests to prove we can do so and […]
Beyond Meat Goes Beyond Burgers with New Ground Beef-Like Product
Today Beyond Meat, the El Segundo, CA-based startup behind popular plant-based burgers, chicken strips, and sausages, announced a new product: Beyond Beef. The new product is meant to have the […]
Bill Gates Names Meat-Free Burgers in Top 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2019
Today MIT Technology Review released its list of the Top 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2019, and this time they had a special guest curator: Bill Gates. In his intro to […]
Impossible Foods Will Roll Out Its “Bleeding” Plant-Based Meat in Singapore
Earlier this morning plant-based foods startup Impossible Foods put out a juicy teaser, hinting at an impending news drop. We immediately set to speculating: Was it a concrete date for […]
When It Comes to Labeling Food “Meat,” Where Do We Draw The Line?
Things used to be so simple. Meat used to cover products that came from slaughtered animals, and everything else was, uh, not meat. But now the lines are blurred — and […]
