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Singapore just became the first nation to approve cell-cultured meat for...
What’s the holdup in the U.S.? On Wednesday, alternative protein company Eat Just, Inc. announced a major development: Its cultured chicken product has been approved for sale in Singapore. It is...
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“This brings tears to my eyes”: A civil rights leader reacts to Vilsack...
Lawrence Lucas, president emeritus of the USDA Coalition of Minority Employees, explains why Tom Vilsack’s nomination to lead USDA has stoked intense feelings of betrayal. Since Tuesday evening,...
View ArticleClyburn: Why have OSHA, meatpackers failed to protect workers from Covid-19?
Lawmakers’ demands for an extensive list of documents and records doubles down on an unresolved question: Why the federal government has done so little to prevent—or punish—outbreaks in the meat...
View ArticleForeign ownership of U.S. farmland is growing. A Missouri lawmaker wants to...
The bill brings up questions about whether foreign entities are really the ones driving up land prices in farm country—or if domestic investors are. A Missouri state legislator wants to stop foreign...
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In a new ad campaign, Impossible Foods calls its plant-based burger “meat.”...
The ads aren’t really intended to fool anyone. Their aim is much bolder: to redefine “meat” itself. The commercial opens with a close-up of a grill: raw pink burger patties sizzling in their fat, some...
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Regenerative agriculture needs a reckoning
Why avoiding uncomfortable conversations about equity, race, and access threatens to spoil a nascent movement’s environmental promise. 03 03 When a Big Ag conglomerate buys an iconic niche meat...
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Cell-cultured meat on store shelves this year? It’s unlikely.
Memphis Meats has rebranded as Upside Foods, and the company now predicts its lab-grown chicken will be ready for consumers in 2021. The U.S. government suggests otherwise. Just months after Singapore...
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Deborah Madison is done with cookbooks. Now, she’s making corn dogs and fried...
Cooking meat has been a form of reinvention, a rebuke of vegetarianism, and way to rebel against the “Queen of Greens” label that has dogged her for so long. 15 15 Taste without touch: A chocolate...
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Who gets to call themselves a food writer? The pandemic made it clear: We all...
Covid-19 changed the way I teach food writing. I’ve traded Child and Bourdain for tweets and zines and artwork shared by Instagram. 11 11 An Oregon chef found a better understanding of his community...
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Lab-grown meat is supposed to be inevitable. The science tells a different...
Splashy headlines have long overshadowed inconvenient truths about biology and economics. Now, extensive new research suggests the industry may be on a billion-dollar crash course with reality. Paul...
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Why did Upside Foods fire its co-founder just weeks after his team’s...
The cultured meat company’s top-secret “Blue Sky” team found a new, unprecedented way to grow meat in the lab. Less than a month later, its leader had been dismissed and the team was gone. On April 2,...
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