Food scientists: Clean meat is top priority
The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) aims to unlock the potential of the international food science community by sharing critical information and uniting the industry’s best and brightest.
IFT is now using its powerful platform to spread the word about the future of protein production!
In the first edition of IFT Magazine for 2018, clean meat took top billing with the cover article “Is the Future of Meat Animal-Free?” authored by GFI’s own Senior Scientist Dr. Liz Specht.
This comes after our proposal to put clean meat on the agenda at IFT’s 2018 conference was not only accepted but prioritized. In fact, conference organizers received so many strong proposals on alternative proteins that the Annual Meeting Scientific Program Advisory Panel recommended they host a full day program dedicated to this important topic!
The annual IFT conference is the premier event for food scientists around the world, so we couldn’t imagine a better audience to engage with for an exploration of plant-based and clean meat technology and how to integrate these advances into the mainstream.
Tracking the increasing prominence of alternative proteins within IFT’s community provides an interesting insight into the growth of the plant-based and clean meat industries:
When GFI scientists attended the conference in 2016, virtually no one had heard of clean meat — something that would border on the absurd in a gathering of food scientists today! In 2017, IFT put plant-based and clean meat prominently on the agenda, led by presentations from The Good Food Institute’s senior scientists.
Now, opportunities in alternative proteins are getting top billing. As we commented last year, “The winds are shifting, and food tech conversations are no longer completely dominated by talk about flavors and preservatives. Now, it’s about saving the world.”
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