Cultivated Meat

Aleph Farms Reveals Its Strategy to Replace the Whole Cow as an Alternative to Intensive Cattle Farming

March 16, 2022 Aleph Farms

Aleph Farms, the first company to grow cultivated beef steaks, today announced it is expanding its product line to include a unique platform for cell-cultured collagen production. The company’s highly differentiated, integrated strategy to develop a complete alternative to animals in intensive animal farming is a testament to its inclusive vision to supplement sustainable, but less productive, livestock agriculture practices. …

Ajinomoto Partners with Cultivated Meat Company SuperMeat, Anticipates Bright Future in Cellular Agriculture

March 14, 2022 SuperMeat

SuperMeat, a food-tech company working to supply the world with high-quality cultivated meat, announced a new strategic partnership with Ajinomoto Co., Inc. (“Ajinomoto Co.”) to establish a commercially viable supply chain platform for the cultivated meat industry. As part of the partnership, Ajinomoto Co. will invest in SuperMeat as one of its corporate venture capital projects. …

Atelier Meats Corp. and Rutgers Initiate Collaborative R&D to Develop Proprietary Technology for Production of Cultivated Meats

March 8, 2022 Atelier Meats Corp.

Atelier Meats Corp., a biotechnology company focused on development and commercialization of lab-grown meats, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a multi-disciplinary collaborative research and development agreement with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey to help it develop Atelier’s proprietary technology for the manufacture of lab-grown or cultivated meats. …

Cultivated Meat Passes the Taste Test

January 21, 2022 ARYN BAKER, TIME

Renowned Israeli gastronome Michal Ansky knows her food. She’s a professional taster and a Master Chef judge. So when she was invited to the world’s first public blind taste test pitting lab-grown, or cultivated, chicken up against a conventionally raised product, she jumped at the chance. It was a historic opportunity, but she was also confident that she would be able to tell the difference. …

Lab-Grown Shrimp’s Price Tag Shows Long Way Ahead to Mass Market

January 7, 2022 Jasmine Ng and Haslinda Amin, Bloomberg

Singapore-based Shiok Meats Pte plans to launch its flagship cell-based shrimp in 18 months at about S$50 ($37) a kilogram, Chief Executive Officer Sandhya Sriram said in an interview. That’s roughly double the price of real prawns. …