Who’s Afraid of Lab-Grown Meat?
GFI's Madeline Cohen spoke on the unconstitutionality of cultivated meat bans in this NYT piece about state-level cultivated meat bans and why some ranchers, red states, and meat industry members oppose them.
Cultivated
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Join us for an engaging session on alternative proteins and their potential to transform food systems. This session will explore the science, technology, and market opportunities behind plant-based, cultivated, and fermented proteins driving sustainability and innovation in the food industry.
A global perspective on alternative seafood
Explore a first-of-its-kind survey showing what would motivate consumers in Singapore, Thailand, Japan, and South Korea to leave fish in the sea and choose plant-based or cultivated seafood instead.
Food 4 Thought 2025
Don’t miss Bruce Friedrich, GFI’s founder and president, as he takes the stage on Saturday, April 12, at 9:15 AM to discuss how alternative proteins can help build a more sustainable, just, and secure food system.
Seaweed proteins for cultivated meat (SeaToMeat)
Years active: 2024This project generates low-cost, high-performance hydrolysates from seaweed proteins for cell culture media to support cultivated meat production.
Cell culture media from yeast
Years active: 2024This project creates a cost-effective nutrient source for cultivated meat production from sustainably growing lipid-rich yeast on lupin waste.
Microalgae for sustainable cultivated meat
Years active: 2024This project uses microalgae to recycle mammalian cell culture media and create amino acids for growth supplements for cultivated meat production.
Agricultural sidestreams for culture media
Years active: 2024This project will assess the functionality of various agricultural sidestream derived cell culture media components.
Canadian Cultivated Meat Landscape seminar
Join this webinar to learn how Canada is driving the cultivated meat forward through collaborative efforts across academia, industry, government, and the nonprofit sector.
Free trade over fear: Meat industry challenges cultivated meat bans
GFI's Pepin Tuma and Bruce Friedrich spoke on the meat industry’s efforts to ban cultivated meat in this Food Nav-USA piece highlighting the need for fair regulations and the potential benefits of alt proteins.
