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One of the reasons I'm not too concerned about consumer perception of #cultivated meat is that anecdotally, almost everyone who tries it enjoys it & says it tastes just like meat (because it is). www.foodprocessing.com/ingredients/...

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Boston startup Brown Foods uses bovine mammary cells to demonstrate that cultivated milk contains the same proteins, fats, and carbohydrates found in conventional milk: www.forbes.com/sites/daphne...

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New report from @gfieurope.bsky.social analyzes the patent landscape of alternative protein in Europe. Section on #cultivatedmeat shown below: gfieurope.org/wp-content/u...

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A bill to ban #cultivatedmeat has failed to pass in South Dakota. "the constitutionality of the bill, if I'm being honest, is questionable" - State Senator Amber Hulse www.newsfromthestates.com/article/push...

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Some ranchers are leading the pushback against protectionist bans of #cultivatedmeat apnews.com/article/nebr...

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Korean company Simple Planet aims to commercialize its low-cost, food-grade media made with microbial postbiotics. More companies should be commercializing their media formulations & ingredients like this IMO cultivated-x.com/rd/simple-pl...

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Another positive signal for #cultivatedmeat — Buhler partners with Ever After Foods to scale up their edible packed bed bioreactor technology. Excited about companies using new approaches for biomanufacturing www.greenqueen.com.hk/buhler-ever-...

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NJ-based startup Fork and Good has signed a joint development agreement for its cultivated pork with a multi-billion dollar food company. www.greenqueen.com.hk/fork-and-goo...

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Cultivated leather startup Pelagen partners with cultivated meat company Meatable to leverage its cellular reprogramming technology www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

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Nice to see Cargill's "Cultivated Meat-Grade" media as a finalist for the Edison Awards best new product. Companies with large food and feed supply chains have a crucial role to play in lowering the cost of #cultivatedmeat media:

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We just pushed an update to our Science of Cultivated Meat page, which provides a detailed educational overview of the current progress along the value chain, including new sections on cost and environmental impact. Great intro resource to share: gfi.org/science/the-...

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Only $3M was invested into #cultivatedmeat companies in Q4. New capital has effectively halted until new regulatory approvals are achieved.

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Mosa Meat raises €1.5M within 24 minutes of launching a crowdfunding campaign. Funds raised are now up to >€2.5M vegconomist.com/cultivated-c...

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World's first sale of cultivated pet food will occur tomorrow in the UK. The product is made by the company Meatly and contains cultivated chicken mixed with plant-based ingredients. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Would like to see more partnerships like this between StammBio and SuperMeat. Two startups blending new approaches to improve animal cell biomanufacturing. www.foodengineeringmag.com/articles/102...

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Join us Feb 13th for GFI's next Science of Alt Protein seminar featuring Dr. Blackstone, a founding faculty member of Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture. Dr. Blackstone's talk will focus on the environmental and social performance of cultivated meat. Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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One of the leading companies making cultivated milk, BIOMILQ, files for bankruptcy. Fate of IP and collection of mammary cell lines is uncertain agfundernews.com/biomilq-file...

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My annual decarbonization presentation is here. 200 slides, covering everything from water levels in Lake Gatún to sulfur dioxide emissions to ESG fund flows to Chinese auto exports to artificial intelligence. www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations

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As the #cultivatedmeat industry scales up, it will be increasingly difficult to maintain sterility in processes that last weeks and/or operate continuously Random peptide mixtures added to media present a new strategy to prevent contamination in cell cultures

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One of the first R&D and pilot centers for cultivated meat and precision fermentation opens in Beijing, as China continues to embrace food innovation www.greenqueen.com.hk/china-lab-gr...

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Dutch cultivated meat startup Mosa Meat files the second safety dossier in the E.U. for cultivated bovine fat to be used as an ingredient. The evaluation process is expected to take at least 18 months. www.greenqueen.com.hk/move-over-be...

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Nexture Bio, which makes animal-free microcarriers and scaffolds for cultivated meat, acquires IP and know-how from defunct scaffolding company Matrix FT Likely more Gen 1 company IP for sale this year cultivated-x.com/investments-...

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2 new shared infrastructure/scale-up facilities open in The Netherlands, one focused on precision fermentation and the other on #cultivatedmeat www.proteinproductiontechnology.com/post/the-net...

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2 new shared infrastructure/scale-up facilities open in The Netherlands, one focused on precision fermentation and the other on #cultivatedmeat www.proteinproductiontechnology.com/post/the-net...

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Some interesting insights from the Tufts Innovation Day on the importance of your cap table for #cultivatedmeat startups, and how that may have influenced the demise of a few companies over the last two years: agfundernews.com/cultivated-m...

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Cool study on the development of "proteologels" as a metamaterial that can be injection-molded to create structured meat alternatives at lower costs. Glad @goodfoodinst.bsky.social could help fund this project! phys.org/news/2025-01...

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🧵 Who’s behind the cultivated meat bans? Not the meat industry, & not conservatives/libertarians. They’re calling the bans Orwellian, hypocritical, unconstitutional, and worse. Statements below from the Meat Institute (reps 95% of meat), Reason, Cato, + more:

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Personally, I think cultivated meat at low inclusion levels in pet food is tractable. The product is less complex to develop and it avoids any issues with consumer acceptance. Looking forward to seeing the first products sold at low volumes in 2025. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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I recently appeared on the Curious Minds podcast, hosted by students at the University of Toronto, to talk about #cultivatedmeat Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/3JPS...

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Looking to accelerate your research? The latest update to our #cultivatedmeat research library brings the total to over 1200 papers, textbooks, & other research articles, with features for sorting by topic area. GFI's literature library: gfi.org/resource/alt...

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Closing out the year, our #cultivatedmeat cell lines database now lists 75 different cell lines, w/ new additions from Roslin Technologies and Dragon Biotechnologies If you have cell lines to share, get in touch w/ @maanasar.bsky.social to have them listed in our database gfi.org/resource/exp...

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Our new tool maps career pathways and job archetypes in the #cultivatedmeat sector, with explanations of process steps and typical responsibilities for each stage of the production process pathways.gfi-apac.org/value-chain-...

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Banning something before it has a chance to get off the ground is not the right approach. www.cato.org/free-society...

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Australian startup Vow is manufacturing cultivated quail (sold in Singapore & Hong Kong) in a 15,000L bioreactor, w/ a 20,000L reactor coming online soon The company will be able to produce ~100 tons of product annually, likely the largest volume in the industry www.fastcompany.com/91232012/the...

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Our list of priority research areas for the #cultivatedmeat sector. The list cites key challenges, bottlenecks, and solution spaces to reduce costs, assist in scaling, improve environmental impact, and generally build a greater foundation of knowledge to guide the trajectory of the field:

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French startup Vital Meat shares data from 2000L bioreactor runs. To my knowledge, they join just a few others in the industry who have demonstrated this scale of production.

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New homepage for all of our technical analysis and reports on alternative proteins, including LCA, TEA, and other studies we have conducted over the past 5 years. All open-source and freely available. gfi.org/science/tech...

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