Meat-substitute manufacturer The Better Meat Co. was awarded a $1.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Distributed Bioindustrial Manufacturing Program.
The West Sacramento-based company will use the grant money toward expanding production of its sustainable and nutritious mycoprotein food product.
“These grants are meant to scale up domestic bio-industrial manufacturing,” said Better Meat Co. CEO Paul Shapiro. “This will certainly help to scale up.”
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