Public investment in alternative seafood has the potential to make America a leader in seafood production with vast positive impacts for the economy, workers, human health, and ocean sustainability.
Alternative proteins can enhance food security. But, to integrate them into our food supply, we need public investment in alternative protein research and development.
Covid-19 has demonstrated that our current meat production system is vulnerable. Public investment in alternative proteins can help us create a more safe, efficient, and resilient protein supply.
To see our transformative vision of the food system become reality, government investment into researching alternative proteins is mission-critical.
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.
The Good Food Institute, the Animal Legal Defense Fund, and the ACLU of Arkansas are bringing a lawsuit on behalf of Tofurky challenging Arkansas' unconstitutional label censorship.
Mississippi is banning terms like "vegan hot dog" and "plant-based meat" on packaging. Upton's Naturals, the Plant Based Foods Association (PBFA), and the Institute for Justice (IJ) are challenging it in court.
This Food Safety Day, we're exploring how plant-based and cell-based meat can make our meat supply chains safer and more sustainable.
The grant is one of the largest investments ever made by a government in cell-based meat research and offers further promise that India is willing to make visionary investments in the nutrition security of a growing global population.
If the government bans meat and milk terms on labels for plant-based and cell-based products, it should apply the same linguistic approach throughout the supply chain for all foods and beverages.
