Better Meat Co. Lands $1.4M DOD Grant
August 29, 2024 | 1 min to read
The Better Meat Co., a meat-substitute manufacturer based in West Sacramento, received a $1.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Distributed Bioindustrial Manufacturing Program. The funding will advance the production of its sustainable mycoprotein food product. CEO Paul Shapiro emphasized that the grant is intended to enhance domestic bio-industrial manufacturing, stating, “This will certainly help to scale up.”
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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