China, South Korea, & Singapore race ahead in pursuit of the world’s biggest markets while livestock producers try to keep U.S., Europe, & Australia out of the competition BEIJING, China––The Chinese government newspaper Science & Technology Daily on July 1, 2024 announced that the Beijing Academy of Food Sciences’ China Meat Research Centre has resolved […]
Cell-cultured chicken wins USDA approval. Is it vegan? Does it matter?
Anticipated 2023 production might save 12,500 chicken lives––or more. It’s a start. SAN FRANCISCO, California––The U.S. Department of Agriculture on June 22, 2023 authorized Upside Foods of Alameda, California, and Good Meat Inc., of Berkeley, California, to start selling cell-cultured, lab-grown chicken meat produced without slaughtering animals to stores, restaurants, and the general public. […]
Can plant-based “meat” be made to satisfy the Yellow Vests?
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 […]
“Rigor mortis is our biggest problem,” meat scientist tells cell culturing conference
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 […]
Celebrity chef scandals: the down side of vegan success
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. […]
Hampton Creek founder Tetrick pledges his “clean meat” will be vegan
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, […]
Just Mayo may just keep spreading, says FDA
Eggless product had been sandwiched between regulations protecting Hellmann’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 […]
Will animal industries throw rotten eggs next?
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 […]