#Cell-based

I subscribe to AgFunder News, not least because I so admire Elaine Watson’s reporting on the food industry. I was particularly interested in her detailed account of investment in cultured meat and seafood startups: ​Preliminary AgFunder data point to 78% decline in cultivated meat funding in 2023;

The International Political Economy Society (IPES) food section has just issued this report. Its major thesis: alternative plant- or cell-based alternative meats are not the solution to world food problems. As the report’s author, Phil Howard, explains in his Civil Eats editorial: The hype

In big news for the cell-cultured meat industry, the FDA has done its version of approving production of cellular chicken. Here, in inimitable FDA-speak, is the agency’s essentially tacit approval of UPSIDE Foods, Inc’s cultured chicken cell material: Based on the data and information

TODAY: Petaluma, 140 Kentucky, Copperfield’s Books, 7:00 p.m.  Information is here. ********** Nature Food has an issue devoted largely to the topic of cell-based meat. It is worth reading for getting an idea of where current thinking is on this issue, and also because of Phil Howard’s latest

I’m seeing considerable confusion about the difference between cell-based and plant-based meat alternatives. Cell-based products are not yet on the market, except in Singapore.  Plant-based products are everywhere, and I will deal with them separately tomorrow. For an example of the confusion,