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The Cultured Meat Revolution: By the end of the decade these products could be as cheap as traditional meat.

The high-tech future of meat is just around the corner

A key regulatory milestone has been cleared and economic parity with conventional production could be just seven years away

By Don Norman December 1, 2022

Meat producers are paying attention now that a cultured meat company has passed a key regulatory hurdle. Upside Foods became the first company to receive a “no questions” letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Despite some headlines, it has not received approval for any products but the FDA said it has no qualms

A hamburger made with a Mosa Meat patty.

Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Why the cultured meat industry needs its own Elon Musk

Lab-grown meat looks like it could change the way animal protein is supplied to consumers

By Sylvain Charlebois October 20, 2021

Leonardo DiCaprio has just used his A-list magic powers yet again by investing in two American cultured meat startups, Aleph Farms and Mosa Meat, which use animal cells. This is the same actor who invested in a vegetable protein company even before the plant-based phenomenon was a thing. That company was Beyond Meat, now worth

Future Meat Technologies is already producing test products, including this cultured chicken breast.

News, Other

Cellular agriculture makes waves in protein production

Government investment, cellular food policy strategy and regulation are missing so far

By Diana Martin July 30, 2021

Scalable cell-based meat production is a reality now that the world’s first industrial cultured meat facility has been launched. Israel-based Future Meat Technologies (FMT) opened its plant last month and aims to have products on the market by 2022. The facility marks new market potential to compete against traditional agriculture and aquaculture sectors. Why it

Livestock, Other

Singapore approves sale of lab-grown meat in world first

U.S. maker says cultured meat's clearance may set template for future approvals

By GFM Network News December 2, 2020

Singapore | Reuters — Singapore has given U.S. start-up Eat Just the greenlight to sell its lab-grown chicken meat, in what the firm says is the world’s first regulatory approval for so-called clean meat that does not come from slaughtered animals. The meat, to be sold as nuggets, will be priced at premium chicken prices

Opinion

Opinion: Can lab-grown meat feed — and save — the world?

The true ‘yuck’ factor may be the modern face of meat production

By Paul Shapiro March 20, 2018

We always think of Winston Churchill facing history-altering decisions at a turning point in the Second World War. In fact, Churchill had been thinking about the future of humanity in rather radical ways for years already. In 1931, Churchill published an essay, Fifty Years Hence, in which he made predictions about what the world might

Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: A meaty question

By Gord Gilmour October 6, 2016

Do we need animals to produce meat? If I’d asked that question even a few years ago, everyone in the room would have assumed I either wasn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer, or that I’d been reading too much science fiction and was waiting for the “Star Trek” replicators to become reality. These days

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The high-tech future of meat is just around the corner

Comment: Why the cultured meat industry needs its own Elon Musk

Cellular agriculture makes waves in protein production

Singapore approves sale of lab-grown meat in world first

Opinion: Can lab-grown meat feed — and save — the world?

Editorial: A meaty question

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