Lollo Rosso (green leaf lettuce) is seen inside Elevate Farms’ one-million-pound grow tunnel vertical farming facility in Niagara, Canada, November 2020.

Opinion: Improving our food system

Many perspectives will contribute to food production’s path forward

Agriculture’s impact on the planet is massive and relentless. Roughly 40 per cent of the Earth’s suitable land surface is used for cropland and grazing. The number of domestic animals far outweighs remaining wild populations. How humanity feeds itself has created challenges ranging from its contribution to climate change to weaknesses that were exposed by

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“Animal-free” milk gets green light in Canada

Company touts synthetic dairy as more environmentally friendly, healthy

In a news release today, Israeli startup Remilk, which uses the tagline "Real Dairy. No Milk," announced it had received a 'No Objection Letter' from Health Canada. This will "open the door for use of Remilk's protein in a variety of products with the same taste and texture as milk, ice cream, yogurt, cream cheese, and more," the company said.


A cooked piece of cultivated chicken breast created at the UPSIDE Foods plant, where lab-grown meat is cultivated in January 2023.

Comment: Scaling up cellular is agriculture’s biggest challenge

If we perfect cultivated meat, we could hedge against food shortages

It didn’t get much attention when U.S. President Joe Biden launched a biomanufacturing initiative last September. But it should have. Biomanufacturing is about harnessing nature’s factories – cells – to make just about anything. That includes food. As Biden pointed out, biomanufacturing could boost food security. How? By cultivating meat. Having a roast for dinner

We see animal-free dairy as possibly having some environmental and food security benefits, but with some trade-offs.

Comment: Milk, without the cow

Cellular agriculture could be the future of farming, but dairy farmers need help

A new wave of cow-less dairy is hitting the market. In the United States, Perfect Day is using genetically modified fungi to produce milk protein for ice cream at a commercial scale. And pre-commercial companies, like TurtleTree and Better Milk, are engineering mammary cells to produce human and cow milk in laboratories — though these