Scientists awarded $5 million to boost research into alternative meats

Despite booming commercial interest in alternative meat and the huge climate mitigation potential it offers, funding for academic research lags

28-Sep-2021 - Nonprofit The Good Food Institute (GFI) has awarded $5 million in grant funds to 22 leading scientists from around the world, whose research will address the scientific barriers to producing thick, structured, three-dimensional meat made from plants, cultivated from cells, or derived via ...

Hybrid plant-based and cultivated meat product from Nestlé could be “transformative”

15-Jul-2021 - The Good Food Institute Founder and President Bruce Friedrich says that Nestlé S.A.’s work to bring a hybrid plant-based and cultivated meat product to market could be transformative for the alternative protein industry and the global food system. “It appears that Nestlé is positioning itself to ...

Record $824 million invested in alternative protein companies in 2019

$930 million already invested in Q1 2020

19-May-2020 - New reports released today by nonprofit The Good Food Institute (GFI) reveal that 2019 and Q1 2020 have been record periods of investment in companies creating alternatives to conventional animal-based foods, including U.S. plant-based meat, egg, and dairy companies and global cultivated meat ...