JUST strikes deal in Japan to bring cell-cultured Wagyu beef to market
11-Dec-2018 By Elaine Watson
San Francisco-based JUST - best-known for its plant-based eggs and mayo – has struck a deal with Japanese Wagyu beef producer Toriyama, and meat and seafood supplier Awano Food Group, to develop, sell, and market cell-cultured Wagyu beef products.
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Consumers will embrace brands that 'do the right thing,' af&co. trendologists predict
10-Dec-2018 By Elizabeth Crawford
From the "volatile government situation" to the "crazy acts of nature" across the nation and "senseless hate crimes," many consumers in the US are feeling uneasy and looking for a way to "escape from some of the badness" by visiting hotels, restaurants...
Cargill unveils $70m North American protein headquarters designed to 'inspire the future of protein'
06-Dec-2018 By Mary Ellen Shoup
Cargill has unveiled its new 188,000-square-foot North American protein headquarters in Wichita, Kansas, designed to foster employee collaboration and drive innovation in the protein category.
FDA, USDA, to share regulatory oversight of cell-cultured meat, poultry: 'It has seemed clear for months that shared jurisdiction was inevitable,' says attorney
17-Nov-2018 By Elaine Watson
While earlier this year there was talk of a turf war between federal agencies over who should have primary jurisdiction over cell-cultured meat, the FDA and the USDA have now agreed to create a joint regulatory framework, providing clarity for a growing...
'If we're lab grown meat, they are lab-grown Doritos'
Cell-based meat cos: Please stop calling us 'lab-grown' meat… and we don't use antibiotics in full-scale production
25-Oct-2018 By Elaine Watson
While no bold new suggestions about how to label cell-based meat emerged from this week's joint FDA/USDA meeting, start-ups in the field made it clear that the term 'lab-grown' should be off the table, and challenged claims that they plan to use antibiotics...
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Consumers are raising the bar on animal proteins as more choices for sources come to market
04-Oct-2018 By Elizabeth Crawford
As alternatives to meat become increasingly sophisticated and available and a growing population begins to strain the supply of animal products, consumers are raising the bar for animal proteins in terms of appearance, freshness, processing and price...
Mattson: 'The very existence of what's now known as clean meat is at stake here'
'Cell-based meat' not the most consumer-friendly term, reveals GFI consumer research
30-Sep-2018 By Elaine Watson
The Good Food Institute (GFI) has enlisted the services of food and beverage innovation firm Mattson to conduct further research into the best way to describe cell-cultured meat following the release of new data suggesting that the industry-backed term...
Dutch cell-based meat start up Meatable emerges from stealth mode: 'We think we have a big advantage over the other players'
A new player in the burgeoning cell-based meat field that has developed a production process which its founders claim will give it a competitive advantage over rivals, has emerged from stealth mode after raising $3.5m to help scale its slaughter-free...
Antibiotic-free claims, followed by animal welfare, are the top consumer drivers for cell-based meat, says Mattson
New survey data from food development specialist Mattson suggests that the #1 thing consumers see as appealing about cell-based meat (grown from animal cells in a culture, without slaughter) is that it could "help reduce the amount of hormones and antibiotics...
JUST gears up for late 2018 cell-based meat launch, but says more meaningful quantities are 2-3 years out
San Francisco-based JUST - best-known for its plant-based eggs and mayo - is on track to launch a 'KFC-style' ground chicken product made from cell-cultured meat at a restaurant somewhere outside the US this year to test consumer reactions. However, commercial...
USDA and FDA to host joint public meeting on cell cultured meat
The USDA and the FDA will host a joint meeting on October 23-24, 2018 on cell-based meat – meat produced by culturing animal cells outside of an animal – to thrash out how the sector might be regulated and how such products should be described on food...
Cultured meat cos agree to replace term 'clean meat' with 'cell-based meat' and form trade association
As the debate over labeling conventions and regulatory frameworks intensifies in the burgeoning cell-cultured meat arena, a group of start-ups seeking to grow meat from cells without slaughtering animals has agreed to form an industry trade association...
Soup-to-Nuts Podcast: As plant-based eating takes off, is the end of animal agriculture near?
07-Sep-2018 By Elizabeth Crawford
At the start of the year, industry experts predicted 2018 would be the year of the plant-based diet, and as we enter the fourth quarter sales and growth data suggest that the prediction is coming to fruition – but does it also mean that the end of animal...
Tofurky CEO: It's not the role of lawmakers to choose winners or losers in any given industry
29-Aug-2018 By Elaine Watson
As long as protein products are safe and shoppers are not being misled, it's not the role of lawmakers to write new labeling laws favoring one production method over another, says the CEO of plant-based meat brand Tofurky, which is challenging a Missouri...
GFI, Tofurky, sue state of Missouri over bill banning meaty terminology for plant-based and cell-based meat
The Good Food Institute, the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri, and plant-based meat brand Tofurky, have sued the state of Missouri to challenge a law that would prohibit plant-based and clean meat companies from...