Cultured Meat
This Think Tank Wants to End Factory Farming
The Sentience Institute believes it can find answers to today’s problems in the history of social movements.
The World's First Lab-Grown Chicken Finger Was Just Unveiled
In addition to the chicken strips and duck à l'orange, Memphis Meats plans to launch several poultry products playing off "classic American staples.”
We’ll Be Growing Christmas Turkeys in Labs by 2030
Test tube poultry could soon be coming to a supermarket near you.
The Road to a Post-Meat World Starts in China
The meat industry is an arena of mixed signals thanks to the globally interconnected nature of the business and those who are trying to curtail our dependence on it. And at the center of the meat chatter is China.
Why the Meat Factories of the Future Will Look Like Breweries
"If you tour a meat factory in the future, it will look like a brewery—basically with big meat fermentors," says Bruce Friedrich of the Good Food Institute, an organization that helps to fund research and policy initiatives to develop cultured meat...
Meet the Scientist Trying to Grow Steak in a Lab
Science may have conquered the lab-grown burger, but one PhD student is on a mission to make slaughter-free steak in a petri dish.
I Design the Food You Haven’t Even Eaten Yet
I research new ways to produce healthy and more efficient food. It’s about using technology to make better food in the future.
Scientists Want to Rebrand Lab-Grown Meat as “Clean Meat”
The Good Food Institute, which funds research into cultured and plant-based animal products, hopes to change consumer perception of lab-grown meat by rebranding it as “clean” food.
Why Eating Lab-Grown Meat Will Be More Ethical Than Eating a Vegetable
Synthetic biologists argue that because the cells used to culture meat are 'taken out of context,' they are less alive than even plants.
The European Union Just Banned the Cloning of Farm Animals
Scottish-born Dolly the Sheep may have the honor of being the first cloned animal, but Scotland and the rest of the European Union nations have just passed a measure that bans the cloning of farm animals in the future.
Science Wants to Grow Chicken in a Test Tube
First came the $325,000 lab-grown burger. Now a group of Israeli scientists want to tackle that other protein found on every store-bought salad and deli panini: the humble chicken.