The future of protein?
GFI scientist Dr. Elliot Swartz speaks about GFI’s work to create a sustainable, secure, and just food system with University of California, Santa Barbara's Jacqueline Wen.
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The lab-grown meat industry just got the regulatory oversight it’s been begging for
Vox summarizes the United States Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s March formal agreement, which outlines the joint regulatory framework for cultivated meat.
From almond milk to veggie burgers, does anyone really have trouble knowing what these products are?
GFI’s Director of Policy Jessica Almy teams up with R Street Fellow Shoshana Weissmann to lay out the case against protectionist and unconstitutional governmental censorship of product labels.
Matt Ball: Don’t get caught calling it a veggie burger
Arizona Daily Star publishes GFI’s Senior Communications Specialist Matt Ball’s op-ed on Arizona’s failed label censorship bill, explaining that it violated free speech and free markets.
You call that meat? Not so fast, cattle ranchers say
New York Times gives an overview of label censorship laws, highlighting that the industry groups urging legislators to introduce such laws are threatened by alternative proteins.
Sizzling interest in lab-grown meat belies lack of basic research
Cultivated meat companies have drawn tens of millions of dollars in investment in recent years, but technical hurdles remain. GFI's Competitive Research Grant program works to overcome those hurdles.
Ending the age of animal cruelty
GFI’s Bruce Friedrich discusses the coming transformation of meat production with Vox’s Ezra Klein.
Do we need the government to tell us that almond milk doesn’t come from a cow?
GFI Director of Policy Jessica Almy explains why veggie burgers and rice noodles should be legal.
How the United States can remain a world leader in agriculture
Jessica Almy explores cultivated meat’s emerging role in the ongoing agricultural revolution and illustrates how the United States can stay at the cutting edge of innovation.
Is in vitro meat the new in vitro fertilization?
GFI's Bruce Friedrich explores the history of society’s opposition and then adoption of new technologies, as well as reasons to expect many consumers to embrace cultivated meat.
