Conservation, environmental-justice and public-health groups filed a legal petition today calling for the U.S. Department of Agriculture to ban dangerous on-site incineration and unlined burial of millions of industrially raised farm animals killed during the COVID-19 emergency.
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Miyoko's has won round one in its legal fight with the State of California over its use of the term 'butter' on a plant-based product after a court rejected the State's bid to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the brand in February.
There’s something disarming in how Lou Cooperhouse chooses to approach the concept of selling future fish. His demeanor exudes all the qualities of a decidedly quiet and calm businessperson. In this respect, he stands apart in a field pushing cellular agriculture ever-closer to market.
On December 29, 2017, just two days before New Year’s Eve, Josh Tetrick, the CEO of JUST, and his golden retriever, Elie, boarded a nonstop KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight in San Francisco that would take him halfway around the world to Amsterdam, where he hoped to make the first commercial sale of cell-cultured meat.
Cultured or alternative meat and other artificially produced foodstuffs using advanced technologies will soon be have rules drawn up by the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.
China should accelerate the development of its local cell-based meat sector to catch up with other countries that have a head start in this area, with a major focus placed on technology, regulations and innovation.
France has adopted a new act to restrict permissible terms used on plant-based food labels. The law mandates that names used to indicate foodstuffs of animal origin shall not be used to describe, market or promote foodstuffs containing vegetable proteins.
COVID-19 is the latest reminder that the US meat supply chain needs to change. It isn’t transparent, it isn’t safe for workers, and its biggest weakness revealed during the pandemic is the way a handful of companies have structured the now-highly-consolidated industry.
Why the hurdles raised by the meat industry won’t slow the arrival of lab-grown meat. Excerpt from Billion Dollar Burger: Inside Big Tech’s Race for the Future of Food by Chase Purdy.
Last month, the U.S. president released an executive order which, among other things, allows for the expansion of offshore finfish aquaculture activities beyond U.S. waters in order to “create and sustain American jobs, put safe and healthy food on American tables, and contribute to the American economy.” However, simply expanding the aquatic reach of our current production methods is insufficient.
The legal wrangling began after Miyoko's was told by the Department of Food & Agriculture late last year to drop the terms ‘butter,’ ‘lactose-free,’ hormone-free’ and ‘cruelty-free,’ because “the product [made from coconut oil, sunflower oil and cashew nuts] is not a dairy produ
