The Good Food Institute supports a clear and efficient pathway to market for clean meat. Regulators have an important role to play in encouraging innovation and ensuring consumer safety and confidence. The Good Food Institute and the companies in this space stand ready to work with whichever regulatory agency ultimately regulates clean meat.
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.
Farming cells is better than slaughtering animals - safer, more sustainable, and humane. The FDA has issued a "no questions" letter to Impossible Foods, recognizing the safety of the Impossible Burger's heme (the source of the burgers "bloody" taste).
Clean meat startups, traditional meat producers, investors, NGOs, and innovative food professionals gathered in Tel Aviv to discuss advancing clean meat product development in the Israeli innovation ecosystem.
Mosa Meat has raised $8.8 million, which will allow them to bring clean meat to market by 2021.
GFI attended the FDA's public meeting on foods produced using animal cell culture technology on July 12th. Speakers presented a strong case for the FDA's ability to regulate clean meat. Policy Director Jessica Almy gave remarks during the public comment section.
This explicit request indicates that the U.S. government's premier agricultural research agency recognizes the potential of plant-based and clean meat to contribute to a healthy, humane, and sustainable food system.
On Wednesday, June 27, GFI's Director of Policy Jessica Almy, Esq. was part of a panel of clean meat experts who presented to the Advisory Committee for the Congressional Research and Development [R&D] Caucus Committee. She explained that we are on the cusp of a major shift in how meat is produced globally. If the United States is to lead in this new way of producing meat, the government needs to shift research dollars to this field.
GFI releases paper on plant-based egg alternatives helping manufacturers meet growing consumer demand for safer, allergen-free foods.
Given the range and severity of issues caused by industrial animal agriculture (from antibiotic-resistant superbugs to increased impacts of climate change), every government should follow Japan's lead and invest in clean meat research.
