
Matt Ball
Matt Ball works across the organization as a communications generalist. Areas of expertise: writing, editing, environmentalism, animal advocacy, philosophy, planes, public speaking.
Matt Ball works across the organization as a communications generalist. Areas of expertise: writing, editing, environmentalism, animal advocacy, philosophy, planes, public speaking.
From Tyson and JBS to Cargill and Perdue, major meat companies and food manufacturers are investing in better forms of meat production.
At The Wall Street Journal's Global Food Forum, GFI director of policy Jessica Almy made the case for consumer choice and against government censorship of plant-based food labels.
On Monday, September 30, the Beyond Meat burger goes on sale for a 12-week trial in Toronto and surrounding communities in southwest Ontario.
Meat giant Marfrig and the agricultural powerhouse ADM are partnering to bring plant-based meat to Brazil, helping meet growing international demand.
Following up on their joint statement from last year, the FDA and USDA have released a Formal Announcement spelling out their joint oversight of cell-based meat and poultry production in the United States.
Plant-based milks now command 13% of the retail market, so cow's milk producers are calling for censorship of terms like "almond milk." GFI's policy team defends plant-based milk in our official filing with the FDA.
Together with Avant Meats, BlueNalu, Finless Foods, Mosa Meat, New Age Meats, Seafuture, and SuperMeat, we lay out the need for clear and fair regulatory structures clean (aka cell-based) meat.
The way we currently produce meat causes more climate change than the emissions from every single plane, train, and automobile. And yet changing meat production is too infrequently mentioned in discussions of how to mitigate climate change.
Mark the date: November 16, 2018 was the day that clean/cell-based meat's path to market became much clearer in the United States. On that day, the FDA and USDA announced details of how they will oversee clean/cell-based meat from cows, pigs, chickens, and turkeys.