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Can plant-based “meat” be made to satisfy the Yellow Vests?

December 6, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Demand for more & cheaper meat underlies strikes over high fuel cost             PARIS,  SAN FRANCISCO–– The “yellow vest” riots ripping apart France,  bringing at least 412 arrests on December 1,  2018 alone,  more than 260 injuries,  half of them in Paris,  and two reported deaths,  are behind the scenes adding a social peace-and-justice imperative […]

Filed Under: Culture & Animals, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, France, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Lab animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Mediterranean, Other animals & science topics, Research & testing, Science, Spain, United Kingdom, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Alshakim Nelson, Giuseppe Scionti, Jean-Baptiste Moreau, Josh Tetrick, Mark Post, Merritt Clifton, Nick Giordano, Patrick O. Brown, Tom Levitt, Yaakov Nahmias

“Rigor mortis is our biggest problem,” meat scientist tells cell culturing conference

July 21, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Animal agribiz is about dead meat;  cellular ag isn’t             CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts––Rigor mortis is the biggest technical problem the meat industry has,  John R. White Company meat scientist Benjy Mikel, Ph.D.,  of Birmingham,  Alabama,  emphasized on July 20,  2018 to the New Harvest 2018 conference on cellular agriculture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Alternatives, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pigs, Poultry, Regulation, Science, Slaughter, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Benjy Mikel, Josh Tetrick, Kelly Servick, Merritt Clifton, New Harvest, Paul Mozdziak, Peter Licari, Susan Mayne, Xun Wang

Celebrity chef scandals: the down side of vegan success

July 28, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Sarma Melngailis & Matthew Kenney hit the tabloids because veg food is “in”          MIAMI,  NEW YORK CITY––That vegan restauranteur Sarma Melngailis is doing time at Rikers Island and her former boyfriend and business partner Matthew Kenney has been sued from Maine to Bangkok might be seen as the flip side of a huge success. […]

Filed Under: Culture & Animals, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Allen Salkin, Jeffrey Chodorow, Josh Tetrick, Khaled bin Alwaleed, Matthew Kenney, Merritt Clifton, Sarma Melngailis

Hampton Creek founder Tetrick pledges his “clean meat” will be vegan

July 8, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Cloned product will not be grown in serum culture, Tetrick says          SAN FRANCISCO––Hampton Creek Foods founder Josh Tetrick,  amid a mysterious destocking of all 20 Hampton Creek products by Target Corporation,  the largest Hampton Creek customer,  took a meme of unknown origin attacking cell-cultured meat seriously enough to call at 5:02 p.m. on Friday,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Alternatives, Animal organizations, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Poultry, Science, Turkeys, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Donald Watson, EatJust, Emily Moran Barwick, Hampton Creek, Josh Tetrick, Merritt Clifton

Just Mayo may just keep spreading,  says FDA 

December 20, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Eggless product had been sandwiched between regulations protecting Hellman’s & Best Foods The Just Mayo mayonnaise substitute may just keep spreading in sales and popularity with people who slather things on their bread and buns,  now that even the U.S. Food & Drug Administration understands that the makers of the eggless vegan product are not […]

Filed Under: Chickens, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Meat issues, Poultry, Recipes, USA, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Bill Gates. Li Ka-shing, Hampton Creek, Josh Tetrick, Just Mayo

Will animal industries throw rotten eggs next?

September 5, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Hampton Creek & Chipotle scare agribiz Not all that long ago bigtime animal agribusiness and the fast food meat industry clamored for laws against so-called “food disparagement,”  to try to silence influential critics. Now bigtime agribusiness and allies of the fast food meat industry are doing the disparaging,  using the “check-off” funds created by Congress […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Ag-gag laws, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Cattle & dairy, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Disease, Eggs, Feature Home Middle Left, Food, Food security, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pigs, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans, Welfare Tagged With: American Egg Board, Dave Morris, Hampton Foods, Helen Steel, Howard Lyman, Josh Balk, Josh Tetrick, Just Mayo, Merritt Clifton, National Park Board, National Pork Producers Council, Oprah Winfrey

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