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| Nov 23, 2023 | Op Ed: Brett Thompson, CEO Newform Foods, on Expanding the Definition of Meat | Brett Thompson founded Mzansi Meat Co., Africa’s first cultivated meat company, in the middle of lockdown, and the company became Newform Foods this summer after a rebrand and new strategy, redirecting its focus from being a consumer brand ... |
| Sep 17, 2023 | Why Students Need Access To Healthy Food | Healthy food. getty |
| May 2, 2023 | Study: Ingredient found in salad bowls and burger wrappers less safe than previously thought | A compostable salad bowl seems like an Earth-friendly way to enjoy a healthy lunch. But the toxic chemicals used in containers like molded-fiber salad bowls, sandwich wrappers, and French fry pouches may be leaching into food despite effort... |
| Mar 15, 2023 | Getting Cultivated Meat To Scale Is Key If Australia Is To Protect Itself Against Climate-Related Food Shortages | 5 Mins Read
By Bianca Lê, Honorary Fellow at The University of Melbourne; Technical Strategy and Growth Manager at Mission Barns; and Board Director, Cellular Agriculture Australia.
It didn’t get much attention when US President Joe Biden l... |
| Feb 23, 2023 | Learning from Japan’s mistakes, Oishii CEO “hasn’t spent a dime” on leafy greens as ultra-premium strawberries thrive | “I knew the exact same thing was going to happen. People were going to get really excited about the technology because it’s sustainable and it’s very futuristic. But then people would struggle to prove that it’s a viable business model.”
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| Jan 11, 2023 | ‘The most comprehensive study on cultivated meat production published to date….’ Believer Meats data shines light on cell cultured meat metrics | One of a handful of cultivated meat startups now operating at pilot-scale (from its base in Rehovot, Israel), BELIEVER Meats is one of the top-funded players in the industry, raising $347m in its series B round last year to help commerci... |
| Jan 9, 2023 | What Does 2023 Have In Store For The Grocery Industry? | New year 2023 food trends.getty |
| Oct 28, 2022 | Where do restaurant “service fees” really go? | Service charges have become commonplace for things like online delivery and concert tickets, but they’re increasingly showing up in unexpected places — namely restaurants. While there’s no formal data yet on how many restaurants are impleme... |
| Oct 17, 2022 | Shopify is simplifying a major problem for merchants selling online, and it could give it an edge over Amazon | Shopify This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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Shopify has launched a new sales-tax product called Shopify Tax.
The goal is to help merchants calculate and collect the... |
| Jun 29, 2022 | Why The California Furor Over Humanely Raised Pork Matters Everywhere | Sows lined up in crates. Humane Society of the U.S. |
| May 25, 2022 | GOOD Meat strikes deal for ‘largest known bioreactors for avian and mammalian cell culture’ for US cultivated meat facility | Ten 250,000-liter customized bioreactors will form the foundation for the large-scale cultivated meat facility, which will have the capacity to produce up to 30 million pounds of meat when fully operational, said the firm, which got the gre... |
| Apr 21, 2022 | Tobacco as food's future: BioBetter creates a cell growth medium from the plant | Tobacco isn't exactly the most popular crop to grow in this day and age.
The plant is most commonly associated with smoking and chewing tobacco — once-ubiquitous habits among adults that have fallen out of favor as years of addiction a... |
| Apr 14, 2022 | Supply chain companies play a “critical” role in reducing dairy emissions – report | There’s an urgent need to reduce — and remove — carbon in the atmosphere to stave off the most destructive impacts of climate change. But reducing methane emissions may be the fastest way to curb global warming.
One particularly crucial ind... |
| Mar 29, 2022 | Why 48,000 California Grocery Workers Have Authorized A Strike | UFCW 770 member voting to authorize a strike in California. UFCW Local 770 |
| Jan 19, 2022 | Japan’s IntegriCulture scores $7m from AgFunder, others for ‘outside-factor-free’ cell ag | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in IntegriCulture.
IntegriCulture, a Japanese startup striving to bring down the costs of cellular ag, has raised $7 million in Series A-plus funding.
New investors joining the roun... |
| Jan 19, 2022 | BREAKING: Japan’s IntegriCulture scores $7m from AgFunder, others for ‘outside-factor-free’ cell ag | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in IntegriCulture.
IntegriCulture, a Japanese startup striving to bring down the costs of cellular ag, has raised $7 million in Series A-plus funding.
New investors joining the roun... |
| Jan 6, 2022 | Meet the 4 meat empires Biden says are unreasonably jacking up prices for Americans | Never miss a story: Follow your favorite topics and authors to get a personalized email with the journalism that matters most to you.
President Joe Biden announced plans this week for new rules and $1 billion in funding for independent meat... |
| Dec 6, 2021 | Don’t Call It “Lab-Grown’: Upside Foods Responds to USDA’s Labeling Plans for Cultivated Meat | 4 Mins Read
Meat made via harvesting cells from animals should, in the future, be referred to as “cultivated” meat according to alt-protein company Upside Foods.
The comment is in response to the United States Department of Agriculture’s ad... |
| Nov 18, 2021 | Brief: JBS to acquire cultivated meat company in $100m investment | Brazil’s JBS — the world’s largest meat processor — plans to acquire a majority stake in Spanish cultivated meat company BioTech Foods as part of a $100 million investment into the nascent sector, Reuters reports.
Of that total, $41 million... |
| Nov 16, 2021 | Soaring wages are forcing companies to get more efficient. That's great news for the US economy and your paycheck. | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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Even as the health side of the pandemic slowly improves, the US economy remains in a strange place.
Labor markets are tight, and... |
| Nov 10, 2021 | Is Anyone Right About the Future of Cultivated Meat? Does It Matter? | 1
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As cultivated meat continues to attract investors and regulatory approval, questions about its long-term viability are on the rise.
Bring up the topic of cultivated meat in a group setting and you’re likely to get all... |
| Nov 5, 2021 | UPSIDE Foods’ New ‘EPIC’ Facility Can Make 400,000 Pounds of Cultivated Meat a Year | 1
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US-based UPSIDE Foods says it has completed construction on a production facility for manufacturing various types of cultivated meat and seafood. The Emeryville, California, facility, which it calls its Engineering, Pr... |
| Nov 4, 2021 | 'Not only viable, but inevitable...' Cell-cultured meat in the spotlight as UPSIDE Foods opens 'most advanced cultivated meat production facility in the world' | So when will it start producing meat?
With construction of the 53,000 sq ft facility and innovation center now complete, UPSIDE Foods could go to market tomorrow from an operational perspective, but is working with regulators to secure ap... |
| Oct 19, 2021 | Future Meat Technologies plans US plant in next 1-2 years, unveils consumer study showing openness to cell-cultured meat | Future Meat Technologies – which is backed by high-profile food industry investors including Tyson Foods, ADM, and Rich Products Corporation – recently opened a facility in Rehovot, Israel, capable of producing 500 kilos of product a day ... |
| Oct 7, 2021 | Food additive petition best regulatory route for cultivated/cell-cultured meat production, argues EDF | In a document released today, the EDF says startups in the space “should demonstrate leadership” by adopting the following principles:
Ensure cell-cultured meat and seafood products are safe for human consumption: "Companies must e... |
| Sep 27, 2021 | Cell-cultured meat: New Age Meats raises $25m, gears up for small scale launch in 2022, addresses 'vaporware' claims | One of a series of cell-cultured meat startups moving from lab to pilot scale, New Age Meats (founded in 2018) will also use the new funds - which take its cumulative funding to $32m - to double the size of its workforce, said founder Bri... |
| Aug 27, 2021 | Order Up: As Fast Food Continues to Turn Vegan, What's Next? | August 27, 2021 4 min read
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Remember the old joke about how the meat at fast food restaurants “doesn’t have any real meat in it” anyway? These days, that’s exactly the point.
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| Aug 7, 2021 | Viral TikToks show thousands of dead fish washing up on Florida's beaches, as a toxic red tide hits local businesses | Thousands of dead fish float in the Boca Ciega Bay. Red tide, which is formed by a type of bacteria, has killed several tons of marine life in Florida so far this year. Octavio Jones/Getty Images
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| Aug 6, 2021 | Viral TikToks show thousands of dead fish washing up on Florida’s beaches, as a toxic red tide hits local businesses | Thousands of dead fish float in the Boca Ciega Bay. Red tide, which is formed by a type of bacteria, has killed several tons of marine life in Florida so far this year. Octavio Jones/Getty Images
Florida’s red tide has killed 3 million poun... |
| Jul 27, 2021 | US restaurant industry fears rescue package falling short | Through the past year-and-a-half, the U.S. government issued hundreds of billions of dollars in rescue funding for companies facing difficulties due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But its efforts have come under criticism from those who feel the... |
| Jul 20, 2021 | Jeff Bezos offers a vision of flying through space colonies with our own wings. But is that the best way to save the human race? | Jeff Bezos unveiling the "Blue Moon" lunar lander on May 9, 2019. Jonathan Newton / The Washington Post via Getty Images
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In 2019, Jeff Bezos posed the question: "What happens when unlimited demand meets finite reso... |
| Jul 12, 2021 | White farmers blocked a much-needed federal relief program for Black farmers. The saga proves Black farmers won't overcome racism unless they take their economic future into their own hands. | A farmer checks the condition of his soybean field. Getty This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| Jun 4, 2021 | Black And Minority Farmers Will Receive $4 Billion In Debt Relief. For Some, It’s A Lifeline. For Others, Too Little, Too Late. | Kale grows in a field in Mississippi, U.S.© 2020 Bloomberg Finance LP |
| May 12, 2021 | Just Eat Takeaway is preparing to acquire Grubhub in a $7 billion mega deal | In June of last year, Just Eat Takeaway and Delivery Hero were reportedly in talks to acquire the U.S.-based food delivery startup Grubhub with Bank of America working as an adviser for the deal.
Now, it seems the deal is back on the table... |
| Apr 18, 2021 | Why Are We Still Using Coal? | IMAGE: getty |
| Apr 8, 2021 | Future Food News Review Podcast: Is cultured meat delicious? Should hydroponically-grown food be organic? | A couple of weeks ago we hosted our second Future Food News Review on Clubhouse with leading journalists reporting on the front lines of the foodtech, agtech and food systems revolution. (Read about the first edition here.)
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| Mar 9, 2021 | Three Keys To Unlocking The Climate Solution Right Under Our Feet | Suzanne Russo, CEO, Pecan Street Inc. |
| Mar 1, 2021 | A new searchable directory focuses on women innovators in agrifoodtech | Editor’s note: Amy Wu is founder of From Farms to Incubators in Salinas, California, and Connie Bowen is director of innovation and investment at AgLaunch in Memphis, Tennessee.
Despite a global pandemic, agrifoodtech startups received $30.... |
| Jan 26, 2021 | Phospholutions raises $10.3m Series A for sustainable fertilizer tech | Fertilizer is one of the most widely sought inputs for agriculture. In 2019, US fertilizer consumption totaled 20.8 million tons, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service.
But for all the growth-related bene... |
| Jan 19, 2021 | 3 Retail Food Trends To Watch In 2021 | Welcome to 2021. As former V.P. of Grocery at Whole Foods WFM , I helped roll out the trend forecasting “trend” several years ago and I love how it’s been picked up and improved by more retailers and industry heavyweights. Retail buyers kno... |
| Dec 22, 2020 | Brewers, Winemakers And Distillers Have A Little-Known Reason To Cheer Federal Covid Relief | Worker starts production of craft beer at a factory during covid-19 pandemic.getty |
| Dec 14, 2020 | Fast-food chains are vultures feasting on the carcasses of independent restaurants. But, the American government killed those mum-and-pop businesses in the first place. | Chains are swallowing up independent restaurants across the US. iStock/Getty Images; Samantha Lee/Business Insider
The death of independent American restaurants during the pandemic chains like McDonald’s and Starbucks a natural villain.
Ana... |
| Dec 10, 2020 | Fast food franchisees collected more than $1 billion in federal PPP aid earmarked for small businesses, analysis finds | A Pizza Hut location, which is owned by Yum Brands Inc, is pictured ahead of their company results in Pasadena, California, U.S., July 11, 2016. Mario Anzuoni/Reuters
The federal PPP program gave loans to small businesses to keep employees ... |
| Aug 13, 2020 | Struggling Farmers Work With Overwhelmed Food Banks to Stay Afloat | Read Stateline coverage of the latest state action on coronavirus.
As the pandemic shut down restaurants this spring, California farmers and ranchers saw their markets drop by half, leaving many with fields full of crops but no buyers. And ... |
| Jun 19, 2020 | The history of how Black Americans were deprived of land ownership — and why it might be time to revisit Black commons | Redeem now
Civil rights organizer Fannie Lou Hamer created Freedom Farms, a cooperative model designed to deliver economic justice to the poorest Black farmers in the American South. GHI Vintage/Universal History Archive/Universal Images Gr... |
| Jun 11, 2020 | Grubhub, following failed talks with Uber, is now planning to merge with European food delivery service Just Eat | Grubhub is planning to merge with Just Eat Takeaway.com, the European food delivery company announced in a press release Wednesday.
Under the terms of the proposed deal, Just Eat is valuing Grubhub at $75.15 per share, or roughly $7.3 billi... |
| Jun 5, 2020 | Just Eat Takeaway, Delivery Hero are reportedly in talks to acquire Grubhub | As part of its plan to become a dominant player in food delivery, Uber reportedly offered to buy Grubhub in a deal that could value the company at $6.9 billion. If successful, the deal would give Uber Eats 55% of the delivery market with th... |
| Apr 28, 2020 | This Week in Jobs: Mint Pringles Edition | Editor’s note: Every week we ship an email newsletter featuring the region’s most exciting career opportunities. We’ve lovingly called it This Week in Jobs (aka TWIJ — “twidge.”). Below is this week’s edition. Here’s the last one we publish... |
| Apr 24, 2020 | A lawsuit alleges slaughterhouse employees weren't given time to wash hands or wipe their noses, as more than 1,800 workers at meat plants across America catch COVID-19 | In this April 9, 2020 file photo employees and family members protest outside a Smithfield Foods processing plant in Sioux Falls, S.D. The plant has had an outbreak of coronavirus cases according to Gov. Kristi Noem. (AP Photo/Stephen Grove... |
| Mar 20, 2020 | Walmart Can Teach Amazon And Whole Foods A Lesson In Handling Emergencies Like Coronavirus | walmart-cashier-melissa-helps-a-customer-at-a-registerCourtesy of Walmart/Curtis Myers |
| Feb 19, 2020 | Niman Ranch’s GM talks life post-acquisition, livestock tech, and building a new supply chain | When an entrenched big food company buys a progressive newcomer, skepticism over whether the startup can maintain its integrity under the parent company’s shadow often runs rampant. The situation was no different when Perdue purchased Niman... |
| Grubhub's owner wants to sell the company less than a year after buying it. Employees reveal how the once-dominant food delivery company lost to DoorDash and Uber Eats. | DoorDash is beating Grubhub in the delivery race. iStock; Skye Gould/Insider This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Grubhub, founded in 2004, led food delivery for years before D... |
| Fast-food chains are vultures feasting on the carcasses of independent restaurants. But, the American government killed those mom-and-pop businesses in the first place. | Chains are swallowing up independent restaurants across the US. iStock/Getty Images; Samantha Lee/Business Insider
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| What I Got Wrong About The Future Of Food Production | As we begin to emerge from a pandemic that will reshape nearly every aspect of our global, national, regional, and local economies, the fragility of one sector, in particular, will be reexamined in a manner not seen since the post-war era m... |
| Grubhub, following failed talks with Uber, is now planning to merge with European food delivery service Just Eat | Grubhub is planning to merge with European food delivery service Just Eat. Noam Galai/Getty Images
Grubhub is planning to merge with Just Eat Takeaway.com, the European food delivery company announced in a press release Wednesday.
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| Megacorporations are jacking up prices 'because they can,' pushing red-hot inflation to historic levels | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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