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Inside plant-based, lab-grown, cell-cultured, and all the alt-meat terms we haven’t even thought of yet.

Lab-grown meat is supposed to be inevitable. The science tells a different story.

09.22.2021
Joe Fassler
Cell-cultured meat on store shelves this year? It’s unlikely.
05.20.2021
by Joe Fassler
In a new ad campaign, Impossible Foods calls its plant-based burger “meat.” Can it do that?
04.27.2021
by Joe Fassler
There’s been a groundswell of investor funding in plant-based proteins. It hasn’t led to decreased meat consumption.
04.08.2021
by Lela Nargi
America’s biggest retailers and foodservice companies have already agreed not to sell GMO salmon
02.11.2021
by Sam Bloch
Singapore just became the first nation to approve cell-cultured meat for human consumption
12.03.2020
by Joe Fassler
New York just introduced Meatless Monday in city jails
12.03.2019
by Sam Bloch
A startup just announced the world’s first fake-meat “steaks” made from fungi. Are we ready?
10.29.2019
by Joe Fassler
Country Crock debuts “plant butter,” a product that may remind you of…margarine
09.10.2019
by Sam Bloch
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