Tag Archives: Meat

The New York Times 2:00 pm on February 4, 2023
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Spy Cams Show What the Pork Industry Tries to Hide

A California activist sneaked into a gas chamber for hogs and installed three cameras. See for yourself what they show.

#agriculture-and-farming, #animal-abuse-rights-and-welfare, #california, #carbon-dioxide, #factory-farming, #livestock, #meat, #meatpacking-plants-and-slaughterhouses, #pigs, #smithfield-foods-inc

The New York Times 7:40 pm on February 2, 2023
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Baby Back Ribs Recipe for the Super Bowl

You don’t need a smoker or a grill to make sticky, tender ribs at home — just an oven and a surprising four-ingredient glaze.

#cooking-and-cookbooks, #fruit, #jams-and-jellies, #meat, #pork, #sauces

The New York Times 10:00 am on November 21, 2022
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Beyond Meat Is Struggling, and the Plant-Based Meat Industry Worries

A few years ago, business was booming. That growth has slowed, with some wondering if the number of consumers has reached its limit.

#beyond-meat-inc, #consumer-behavior, #fast-food-industry, #food, #impossible-foods-inc, #jbs-sa, #meat, #panda-restaurant-group-inc, #veganism, #vegetarianism

The New York Times 7:00 am on October 31, 2022
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He’s an Outspoken Defender of Meat. Industry Funds His Research, Files Show.

A UC Davis professor runs an academic center that was conceived by a trade group, according to records, and gets most of its funding from farming interests.

#agriculture-and-farming, #american-meat-institute, #california, #cargill-inc, #cattle, #clear-center-university-of-california-davis, #colleges-and-universities, #conflicts-of-interest, #food, #global-warming, #greenhouse-gas-emissions, #livestock, #meat, #methane, #mitloehner-frank, #research, #university-of-california-davis

The New York Times 6:51 pm on October 22, 2022
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Brunswick Stew Is the Perfect Soup for Right Now

Soul-warming, savory and sweet, this dish with a deep history is perfect for right now.

#cooking-and-cookbooks, #kim-eric-author, #meat, #recipes, #vegetables, #virginia

The New York Times 4:22 pm on September 5, 2022
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Of Barbecues and Men: A Summer Storm Brews Over Virility in France

A Green politician told men to get over meat and masculinity for the sake of the planet, setting off a sizzling argument.

#barbecue, #cooking-and-cookbooks, #france, #global-warming, #greenhouse-gas-emissions, #meat, #men-and-boys, #politics-and-government

The New York Times 9:00 am on July 23, 2022
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Why Are There so Many Books and Shows About Cannibalism?

A spate of recent stomach-churning books, TV shows and films suggests we’ve never looked so delicious — to one another.

#books-and-literature, #cannibalism, #lyle-ashley, #meat, #moshfegh-ottessa-1981, #movies, #nickerson-bart, #schutt-bill, #summers-chelsea-g, #television, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 1:33 pm on June 29, 2022
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Processed Meat and Health Risks: What to Know

Here’s what the experts say.

#alzheimers-disease, #blood-pressure, #cancer, #colon-and-colorectal-cancer, #content-type-service, #cooking-and-cookbooks, #diabetes, #diet-and-nutrition, #hazardous-and-toxic-substances, #hot-dogs-and-frankfurters, #meat, #oils-and-fats, #salt

The New York Times 4:03 pm on June 2, 2022
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Inflation Should Make Us All Vegetarians

Meat prices have soared 14 percent this year. Eating plant-based foods could save Americans’ wallets — and help the planet.

#diet-and-nutrition, #food, #global-warming, #inflation-economics, #meat, #prices-fares-fees-and-rates, #united-states-economy, #vegetarianism

The New York Times 9:00 am on May 15, 2022
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As Inflation Jolts Grocery Prices, Shoppers Say ‘Ouch’

They’re store-hopping, cutting back on expensive items and using more coupons. Plying the meat counter staff with homemade banana bread for favors is not out of the question.

#finances, #inflation-economics, #meat, #shopping-and-retail, #supermarkets-and-grocery-stores

The New York Times 10:12 pm on May 12, 2022
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Meatpackers Misled Public and Influenced Trump Administration During Covid, Report Says

A congressional report claimed that meatpacking companies issued “baseless” warnings about food shortages and influenced government decisions to keep plants open early in the pandemic.

#clyburn-james-e, #coronavirus-2019-ncov, #defense-production-act, #executive-orders-and-memorandums, #meat, #meatpacking-plants-and-slaughterhouses, #pence-mike, #perdue-sonny, #shortages, #united-states-politics-and-government, #workplace-hazards-and-violations

The New York Times 8:37 pm on March 28, 2022
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Supreme Court to Weigh California Law on Treatment of Pigs

Trade groups challenged the law, which requires adequate space for breeding pigs to turn around, saying it unfairly burdens out-of-state farmers.

#agriculture-and-farming, #american-farm-bureau-federation, #animal-abuse-rights-and-welfare, #california, #humane-society-of-the-united-states, #meat, #pigs, #pork, #referendums, #tyson-foods-inc

The New York Times 11:00 am on March 18, 2022
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In a Starving World, Is Eating Well Unethical?

A meditation on the true cost of dining when nearly one-third of the planet lacks regular access to food.

#claiborne-craig, #cooking-and-cookbooks, #diet-and-nutrition, #food, #gokce-nusret, #income-inequality, #luxury-goods-and-services, #meat, #salt-bae-chef, #springdesign2022

The New York Times 12:00 pm on March 3, 2022
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What Does the End of Beef Mean for Our Sense of Self?

When it comes to America’s legacy of Manifest Destiny, there’s perhaps no meal more symbolic than a bleeding steak. So who are we now that we’re consuming less red meat?

#animal-abuse-rights-and-welfare, #beef, #butchers-and-butchering, #cattle, #cooking-and-cookbooks, #diet-and-nutrition, #global-warming, #japan, #meat, #meatpacking-plants-and-slaughterhouses, #united-states, #veganism, #vegetarianism

The New York Times 7:36 pm on February 15, 2022
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Will We Soon Be Eating Chicken Grown From Animal Cells?

Here’s an early taste of the laboratory-grown meat that companies are racing to bring to market, and a look at the questions it raises about how we feed ourselves.

#andres-jose-1969, #audio-neutral-immersive, #audio-neutral-informative, #crenn-dominique, #laboratories-and-scientific-equipment, #meat, #poultry, #upside-foods-inc

The New York Times 5:15 pm on February 7, 2022
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The Republican Strategy on a Supreme Court Nominee

A reader offers the G.O.P. a suggestion about the hearing. Also: Gerrymandering; masks in school; a defense of meat; hard truths about gambling.

#coronavirus-2019-ncov, #education-k-12, #gambling, #meat, #off-track-betting, #redistricting-and-reapportionment, #republican-party, #supreme-court-us, #united-states-politics-and-government

The New York Times 4:00 pm on January 15, 2022
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Building a Better Meatpacking Industry

Instead of breaking up the big meatpacking companies, the Biden administration is supporting the creation of rivals.

#agriculture-and-farming, #antitrust-laws-and-competition-issues, #beef, #meat, #meatpacking-plants-and-slaughterhouses

The New York Times 5:56 pm on January 10, 2022
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A Moose Hunting Class Is Teaching Students About Food

A small group of Alaskan middle-schoolers get a hands-on lesson in hunting and processing food from the land.

#alaska, #butchers-and-butchering, #education-k-12, #food, #hunting-and-trapping, #meat, #moose

The New York Times 5:52 pm on December 29, 2021
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How We Treat Farmed Animals

Readers react to a column by Ezra Klein about the horrors of factory farming. Also: Hospitals and the unvaccinated; unwanted holiday gifts. 

#agriculture-and-farming, #animal-abuse-rights-and-welfare, #animals, #christmas, #coronavirus-2019-ncov, #factory-farming, #gifts, #hospitals, #meat, #vaccination-and-immunization

The New York Times 4:45 pm on December 27, 2021
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The 2021 Good Tech Awards

This year, technology companies stepped up on housing and criminal justice — with a dash of whistle-blowers mixed in.

#3-d-devices-and-effects, #3-d-printers, #computers-and-the-internet, #coronavirus-2019-ncov, #criminal-justice, #deepmind-technologies-ltd, #haugen-frances, #meat, #nonprofit-organizations, #philanthropy, #scott-mackenzie, #social-media, #start-ups, #whistle-blowers

The New York Times 8:00 am on December 27, 2021
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Record Beef Prices, but Ranchers Aren’t Cashing In

“You’re feeding America and going broke doing it”: After years of consolidation, four companies dominate the meatpacking industry, while many ranchers are barely hanging on.

#agriculture-department, #american-meat-institute, #antitrust-laws-and-competition-issues, #beef, #cattle, #federal-trade-commission, #international-trade-and-world-market, #jbs-sa, #meat, #meatpacking-plants-and-slaughterhouses, #prices-fares-fees-and-rates, #ranches, #supply-chain

The New York Times 4:51 pm on December 25, 2021
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Biden Turns to Antitrust Enforcers to Combat Inflation

A wide-ranging presidential order helped block a railroad merger and tackle supply-chain problems, and it is planting the seeds for bigger actions.

#agriculture-department, #antitrust-laws-and-competition-issues, #biden-joseph-r-jr, #federal-maritime-commission, #federal-trade-commission, #inflation-economics, #meat, #prices-fares-fees-and-rates, #united-states-economy, #united-states-politics-and-government

The New York Times 4:51 pm on December 25, 2021
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As Prices Rise Due to Inflation, Biden Turns to Antitrust Enforcers

A wide-ranging presidential order helped block a railroad merger and tackle supply-chain problems, and it is planting the seeds for bigger actions.

#agriculture-department, #antitrust-laws-and-competition-issues, #biden-joseph-r-jr, #federal-maritime-commission, #federal-trade-commission, #inflation-economics, #meat, #prices-fares-fees-and-rates, #united-states-economy, #united-states-politics-and-government

The New York Times 5:24 pm on December 22, 2021
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A Soup That Tastes Like Being Home for the Holidays

When the architect Michael Chen couldn’t travel to be with his family last Christmas, he learned to make one of his mother’s recipes himself.

#beef, #chen-michael-k, #cooking-and-cookbooks, #food, #meat, #recipes, #soups, #spices, #taiwan

The New York Times 6:58 pm on December 17, 2021
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A Harvard Scam and the Best Podcasts of 2021: The Week in Narrated Articles

Five articles from around The Times, narrated just for you.

#cooking-and-cookbooks, #ham, #harvard-university, #immigration-and-emigration, #meat, #nursing-homes, #podcasts, #quarantine-life-and-culture

The New York Times 10:02 am on December 16, 2021
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There Are Better Ways to Build a Burger

How we treat farm animals today will be seen as a defining moral failing of our age.

#agriculture-and-farming, #animal-abuse-rights-and-welfare, #animals, #content-type-service, #empathy, #factory-farming, #food, #good-food-institute, #innovation, #livestock, #meat, #mercy-for-animals

The New York Times 2:00 pm on November 29, 2021
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Your Heart and Diet: A Heart-Healthy Way to Eat

Aim for an overall healthful dietary pattern, the American Heart Association advises, rather than focusing on “good” or “bad” foods.

#american-heart-assn, #diabetes, #diet-and-nutrition, #food, #fruit, #grain, #heart, #labeling-and-labels-product, #meat, #oils-and-fats, #salt, #vegetables

The New York Times 3:24 pm on November 10, 2021
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Video of Salt Bae Serving Communist Leader Gold Steak Prompts Anger in Vietnam

A celebrity chef showed the meal in a TikTok video, now removed, that angered people in Vietnam. Facebook said it was investigating why the chef’s hashtag was blocked from its site.

#censorship, #communist-party-of-vietnam, #facebook-inc, #gold, #lam-to, #marx-karl, #meat, #restaurants, #salt-bae-chef, #social-media, #tiktok-bytedance, #vietnam, #youtube-com

The New York Times 9:00 am on October 15, 2021
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Plant-Based Food Companies Face Critics: Environmental Advocates

Some analysts say they cannot determine if plant-based foods are more sustainable than meat because the companies are not transparent about their emissions.

#beyond-meat-inc, #brown-patrick-o-1954, #corporate-social-responsibility, #food, #global-warming, #greenhouse-gas-emissions, #impossible-foods-inc, #meat

The New York Times 10:00 pm on October 14, 2021
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Can Lab-Grown Burgers Help Stop Climate Change?

Lab-grown meat has been hailed as a solution to humanity’s unsustainable consumption of animal products, but some say the idea is a fantasy.

#agriculture-and-farming, #beef, #beyond-meat-inc, #debatable, #eat-just-inc, #global-warming, #impossible-foods-inc, #meat, #veganism, #vegetarianism

The New York Times 9:00 am on October 13, 2021
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16 Slow Cooker Recipes

These dishes require a little fuss now for a big payoff later.

#chili-food, #content-type-service, #cooking-and-cookbooks, #home-appliances, #instant-pot-co, #meat, #recipes, #soups

The New York Times 4:06 pm on September 21, 2021
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Pasta with Garlic and Olive Oil Gets a Plus One

Adding fried pepperoni to a classic recipe with garlic and olive oil gives it a bacon-like brawniness and a chile kick.

#content-type-service, #cooking-and-cookbooks, #meat, #pasta

The New York Times 2:00 pm on August 27, 2021
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The ‘Hedonistic Altruism’ of Plant-Based Meat

Ethan Brown, the founder and C.E.O. of Beyond Meat, on his moral and environmental priorities.

#animal-abuse-rights-and-welfare, #beyond-meat-inc, #content-type-personal-profile, #executives-and-management-theory, #greenhouse-gas-emissions, #impossible-foods-inc, #meat, #vegetarianism

TechCrunch 4:35 pm on August 23, 2021
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How one founder aims to bring researchers and food producers together around cultured meat

When Clarisse Beurrier was getting her education in Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, she already knew she wanted to make a difference; hence her participation in Effective Altruism Cambridge, an organization dedicated to helping smart and capable people target their philanthropic urges at the problems that will have the biggest actual impact on the world. She’s now a co-founder at Animal Alternative Technologies, a startup aiming to expedite the commercialization of cultured — aka ‘lab-grown’ — meat.

Clarisse joined us for this week’s episode of Found, our interview podcast where we speak to a different founder every week. We talk about what Clarisse learned about the cultured meat and animal protein alternative industry from her work experience at a couple of startups, including HigherSteaks, and how that dovetailed with the work she was doing at school to help her identify a crucial gap between science and industry. We get into everything from convincing big, entrenched industry heavyweights to embrace change, and the challenges of being a firs-time founder right out of school.

We loved our time chatting with Clarisse, and we hope you love yours listening to the episode. And of course, we’d love if you can subscribe to Found in Apple Podcasts, on Spotify, on Google Podcasts or in your podcast app of choice. Please leave us a review and let us know what you think, or send us direct feedback either on Twitter or via email at found@techcrunch.com, or leave us a voicemail at (510) 936-1618. And please join us again next week for our next featured founder.

#animal-alternatives, #food-tech, #found, #meat, #meat-substitute, #tc

TechCrunch 4:02 pm on July 12, 2021
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Cutting out carbon emitters with bioengineering at XTC Global Finals on July 22

Bioengineering may soon provide compelling, low-carbon alternatives in industries where even the best methods produce significant emissions. Utilizing natural and engineered biological process has led to low-carbon textiles from Algiknit, cell-cultured premium meats from Orbillion, and fuels captured from waste emissions via LanzaTech — and leaders from those companies will be joining us on stage for the Extreme Tech Challenge Global Finals on July 22.

We’re co-hosting the event, with panels like this one all day and a pitch-off that will feature a number of innovative startups with a sustainability angle.

I’ll be moderating a panel on using bioengineering to create change directly in industries with large carbon footprints: textiles, meat production, and manufacturing.

Algiknit is a startup that is sourcing raw material for fabric from kelp, which is an eco-friendly alternative to textile crop monocultures and artificial materials like acrylic. CEO Aaron Nessa will speak to the challenge of breaking into this established industry and overcoming preconceived notions of what an algae-derived fabric might be like (spoiler: it’s like any other fabric).

Orbillion Bio is one of the new crop of alternative protein companies offering cell-cultured meats (just don’t call them “lab” or “vat” grown) to offset the incredibly wasteful livestock industry. But it’s more than just growing a steak — there are regulatory and market barriers aplenty that CEO Patricia Bubner can speak to as well as the technical challenge.

LanzaTech works with factories to capture emissions as they’re emitted, collecting the useful particles that would otherwise clutter the atmosphere and repurposing them in the form of premium fuels. This is a delicate and complex process that needs to be a partnership, not just a retrofitting operation, so CEO Jennifer Holmgren will speak to their approach convincing the industry to work with them at the ground floor.

It should be a very interesting conversation, so tune in on July 22 to hear these and other industry leaders focused on sustainability discuss how innovation at the startup level can contribute to the fight against climate change. Plus it’s free!

#algiknit, #alternative-protein, #articles, #bioengineering, #biotechnology, #carbon-footprint, #ceo, #cultured-meat, #greenhouse-gas-emissions, #jennifer-holmgren, #lanzatech, #manufacturing, #meat, #orbillion-bio, #tc

The New York Times 7:00 am on June 23, 2021
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Beef Prices Are Rising as Bottlenecks Limit Supply

Demand for beef is spiking as people dine out and grill, but the profits aren’t being evenly distributed. Ranchers blame the big meatpacking companies.

#agriculture-and-farming, #american-meat-institute, #beef, #cargill-inc, #cattle, #jbs-sa, #livestock, #meat, #meatpacking-plants-and-slaughterhouses, #ranches, #tester-jon, #tyson-foods-inc

The New York Times 10:04 pm on June 15, 2021
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Did a Burrito Cost American Runner Shelby Houlihan Her Olympic Dream?

Shelby Houlihan, a medal favorite, will miss the U.S. Olympic trials after she tested positive for a banned steroid. She has blamed a food-truck meal.

#burritos, #court-of-arbitration-for-sport, #doping-sports, #meat, #olympic-games-2020, #pork, #steroids, #tests-drug-use, #world-athletics

The New York Times 9:00 am on June 10, 2021
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JBS Paid $11 Million Ransom to Hackers

The breach was the latest in a string of attacks targeting businesses critical to American infrastructure.

#bribery-and-kickbacks, #cyberattacks-and-hackers, #extortion-and-blackmail, #federal-bureau-of-investigation, #jbs-sa, #meat, #revil-hacking-group, #shutdowns-institutional

The New York Times 6:47 pm on June 2, 2021
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Production Resumes at Some JBS Meat Plants After Cyberattacks

Some JBS beef processing plants were operational, but not at full capacity, union officials said, after a ransomware attack shut nine plants, affecting thousands of workers.

#cyberwarfare-and-defense, #jbs-sa, #meat, #shutdowns-institutional

The New York Times 11:00 pm on June 1, 2021
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Ransomware Disrupts Meat Plants in Latest Attack on Critical U.S. Business

Operations at several owned by JBS, which processes one-fifth of the country’s beef, were affected, according to union representatives and Facebook posts meant for employees.

#biden-joseph-r-jr, #computer-security, #computers-and-the-internet, #cyberattacks-and-hackers, #cyberwarfare-and-defense, #extortion-and-blackmail, #jbs-sa, #jean-pierre-karine, #meat, #meatpacking-plants-and-slaughterhouses, #poultry, #putin-vladimir-v, #united-food-and-commercial-workers-union

The New York Times 1:02 pm on May 22, 2021
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How US Activists Are Trying to Halt the Killing of Kangaroos in Australia

A bill in Congress aims to ban all kangaroo products from Australia, setting up a clash between two very different kinds of people on opposite ends of the earth.

#animal-abuse-rights-and-welfare, #australia, #indigenous-australians, #international-trade-and-world-market, #kangaroos, #meat, #pacelle-wayne, #people-for-the-ethical-treatment-of-animals, #politics-and-government, #rural-areas, #shoes-and-boots

The New York Times 9:00 am on May 22, 2021
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U.S. Activists Try to Halt an Australian Way of Life: Killing Kangaroos

A bill in Congress aims to ban all kangaroo products from Australia, setting up a clash between two very different kinds of people on opposite ends of the earth.

#animal-abuse-rights-and-welfare, #australia, #indigenous-australians, #international-trade-and-world-market, #kangaroos, #meat, #pacelle-wayne, #people-for-the-ethical-treatment-of-animals, #politics-and-government, #rural-areas, #shoes-and-boots

The New York Times 9:00 am on May 13, 2021
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Antidepressants Almost Cost This Olympian Her Career

Brenda Martinez, one of the top track and field athletes in the United States, inadvertently tested positive for a banned substance under World Anti-Doping Agency rules.

#antidepressants, #depression-mental, #doping-sports, #martinez-brenda-1987, #meat, #mental-health-and-disorders, #olympic-games-2016, #olympic-games-2020, #steroids, #tests-drug-use, #tygart-travis, #world-anti-doping-agency

The New York Times 3:05 pm on May 3, 2021
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Is Going Meatless in Our Future?

Readers explore issues of diet, agriculture, ethics and climate change.

#food, #meat, #vegetarianism

The New York Times 5:46 pm on April 27, 2021
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Epicurious Drops Beef Recipes to Fight Climate Change

The popular cooking website will not publish new beef recipes over concerns about climate change. “We think of this decision as not anti-beef but rather pro-planet,” an article said.

#beef, #cooking-and-cookbooks, #epicurious-web-site, #global-warming, #greenhouse-gas-emissions, #livestock, #meat, #recipes, #sustainable-living

The New York Times 1:55 am on April 27, 2021
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Biden’s Climate Plan Won’t Outlaw Meat

Republican pundits and politicians are manufacturing red meat for their followers, regardless of truth.

#american-rescue-plan-2021, #biden-joseph-r-jr, #frauds-and-swindling, #global-warming, #greenhouse-gas-emissions, #kudlow-lawrence-a, #meat, #republican-party

TechCrunch 12:00 pm on April 26, 2021
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Investors eat up Orbillion Bio’s plans for lab-grown wagyu beef, elk, and bison

Orbillion Bio’s plans to make high end meats in a lab have investors lining up for a seat at the company’s cap table.

Mere weeks after launching from Y Combinator’s famous accelerator program, the Silicon Valley-based potential purveyor of premium lamb loins, elk steaks, bison burgers and more has managed to haul in $5 million in financing.

The company’s led by Patricia Bubner, Gabrial Levesque Tremblay, and Samet Yidrim, who between them have over thirty years working in bioprocessing and the biopharmaceuticals industry.

A little over a month ago, Orbillion held its first public tasting event where meats mixed with its elk, beef, and sheep were on offer straight from the petri dish to the table.

This Y Combinator startup is taking lab-grown meat upscale with elk, lamb and Wagyu beef cell lines

Investors in the $5 million round include: At One Ventures, which has also backed Finless Foods and Wild Earth; Metaplanet Holdings; the European investment firm k16 ventures; FoundersX Ventures, who are also investors in SpaceX; Prithi Ventures, which backed Mission Barns, Turtle Tree Labs; and angel investors including Jonghoon Lim, the CEO of Hanmi Pharmaceuticals; Kris Corzine; Ethan Perlstein, the CEO of Perlara, the first biotech PBC; and a well-known university endowment. 

“We were immediately struck by Orbillion’s focus on high-end, flavorful, hard-to-find meats like lamb, elk, wagyu beef, and bison, their strong science, business, and engineering backgrounds, and the fact that they are so focused on flavor that they literally have a Master Butcher on their advisory board,” said Ali Rohde, GP at Outset Capital, an early-stage venture fund run by Rohde along with repeat entrepreneurs Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht. “Lab-grown meat is the future, and Orbillion Bio is already paving the way.” 

The company said it would use the cash to bring its first product, a Wagyu beef offering, to pilot production.

#articles, #beef, #ceo, #cultured-meat, #ethan-perlstein, #food-and-drink, #foundersx-ventures, #kanjun-qiu, #meat, #orbillion-bio, #silicon-valley, #spacex, #steak, #tc, #y-combinator

The New York Times 3:00 pm on April 24, 2021
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Let’s Launch a Moonshot for Meatless Meat

It wouldn’t actually take that much of an investment for Biden to get us headed in the right direction.

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TechCrunch 10:30 am on April 22, 2021
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Will Budweiser brew eggs and will Post cereal make meat?

Corporations are quickly waking up to the market potential of alternative proteins with the nation’s biggest consumer brands continuing to make investments and create partnerships with startup companies helping consumers transition to healthier and more environmentally sustainable diets.

As Earth Week draws to a close (thankfully) new partnerships announced over the past week show the potential for new technologies to transform old businesses.

Yesterday the New York-based ZX Ventures, the investment and innovation arm of AB InBev, said that it would be partnering with Clara Foods, a developer of protein production technologies including (but not limited to), brewing egg substitutes. That’s right, the makers of Budweiser are hatching a scheme to make other kinds of liquids that are less potable and more poachable.

In that case, the yolk would definitely be on you, future consumer.

“Since day one, Clara has been on a mission to accelerate the world’s transition to animal-free protein, starting with the egg. More than one trillion eggs are consumed globally every year and corporate commitments for cage-free aren’t enough,” said Arturo Elizondo, the chief executive and co-founder of Clara Foods. “We’re thrilled to be partnering with the world’s largest fermentation company to work together to enable a kinder, greener, and more delicious future. This partnership is a major step towards realizing our vision.”

Graph showing the increasing size of investments into alternative proteins in 2020. From 2019 to 2020 investments in alternative proteins soared from just over $1 billion to $3 billion led by investments in plant protein products. Image Credit: Good Food Institute

There are market-driven reasons for the partnership. Demand for high quality proteins is expected to jump up to 98% by 2050, according to research cited by the two companies.

“Meeting the increased demand for food requires breakthrough solutions built on collaboration and innovation that spans several industry domains – both old and new. The ancient and natural process of fermentation can be further harnessed to help meet future demands in our global food system,” said Patrick O’Riordan, founder & CEO at BioBrew, ZX Ventures’ new business line trying to apply large-scale fermentation and downstream processing expertise beyond beer. “We look forward to exploring the development of highly-functional, animal-free egg proteins with Clara Foods in a scalable, sustainable and economically viable manner.”

Meanwhile, there’s a meeting of the minds happening in St. Louis where cereal giant Post is investing in Hungry Planet, a startup making meat a range of meat replacements.

Formed from the same Seventh Day Adventist focus on plant-based diet and health as a core of spirituality that launched the Kellogg’s cereal empire, Post has long been a rival to the corn flake king with its grape nuts cereal and other grain-based breakfast offerings.

Now the company has led a $25 million investment in Hungry Planet, which aims to provide meat-based replacements for crab cakes, lamb burgers, chicken, pork, and beef. Additional investors included the Singapore-based environmentally sustainable holding company, Trirec.

Alternative proteins are a big business. Last year, companies developing technologies and businesses to commercialize alternative sources of protein raised over $3 billion, according to the industry tracker, the Good Food Institute.

“Over the past year, the alternative protein industry has demonstrated not only resilience but acceleration, raising significantly more investment capital in 2020 than in prior years,” said GFI director of corporate engagement Caroline Bushnell, in a statement. “These capital infusions and the funding still to come will facilitate much-needed R&D and capacity building to enable these companies to scale and reach more consumers with delicious, affordable, and accessible alternative protein products.”

It’s all part of a push to provide more plant-based alternatives to animal proteins in a bid to halt planetary deforestation and reduce the greenhouse gas emissions associated with animal husbandry.

“Humanity needs solutions that match the scale and urgency of our problems,” said Elizondo. “

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TechCrunch 3:40 pm on April 14, 2021
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I can’t believe it’s not meat! Mycelium meat replacement company aims for summer launch of first products

Meati, a company turning mycelium (the structural fibers of fungi) into healthier meat replacements for consumers, is prepping for a big summer rollout.

Co-founder Tyler Huggins expects to have the first samples of its whole-cut steak and chicken products in select restaurants around the country — along with their first commercial product, a jerky strip.

For Huggins, the product launch is another step on a long road toward broad commercial adoption of functional fungi foods as a better-for-you alternative to traditional meats.

“Use this as a conversation starter. About 2 ounces of this gives you 50% of your protein; 50% of your fiber; and half of your daily zinc. There really is nothing that can compare to this product in terms of nutritionals,” Huggins said. 

And moving from meat to mushrooms is a better option for the planet.

Meati expects to turn on its pilot plant this summer and is joining a movement among mushroom fans that includes milk replacements, from Perfect Day, more meat replacements from Atlast, and leather substitutes from Ecovative and MycoWorks.

Ecovative sees a fungal future for fashion, food and foam packaging and has a fresh $60M to make it

“We’re definitely all in this together,” said Huggins of the other mob of mycelium-based tech companies bringing products to market.

However, not all mycelium is created equally, Huggins said. Meati has what Huggins said was a unique way of growing its funguses (not a real word) that “keep it in its most happy state.” That means peak nutritional content and peak growth efficiency, according to the company.

For Huggins, whose parents own a bison ranch and who grew up in cattle country, the goal is not to replace a t-bone or a ribeye, but the cuts of meat and chicken that find their ways into a burrito supreme or other quick serve meat cuts.

Rendering of Meati mushroom meats in a Banh Mi. Image Credit: Meati

“Head to head with that kind of cut, we win,” Huggins said. “I’d rather pick a fight there now and buy ourselves some time. I don’t think we’re going to go super high-end to start.”

That said, the company’s cap table of investors already includes some pretty heady culinary company. Acre Venture Partners (which counts Sam Kass — President Barack Obama’s Senior Policy Advisor for Nutrition Policy, Executive Director for First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign, and an Assistant Chef in the White House — among its partnership) is an investor. So is Chicago’s fine dining temple, Alinea.

But Huggins wants Meati to be an everyday type of meat replacement product. “I want to make sure that people think this is an every day protein,” Huggins said.

Meati thinks its future meat replacements will be cost competitive with conventional beef and chicken, but to whet consumers’ appetites, the company is starting with jerky.

“Meati’s delicious jerky,” said Huggins. “It provides this blank canvas. We’ll start with these beef jerky like flavors. But I want to come out of the gate and say that we’re mycelium jerky.”

The company currently has 30 people on staff led by Huggins and fo-founder Justin Whiteley. The two men initially started working on Meati as a battery replacement. Based on their research (Huggins with mycelium and Whiteley with advanced batteries) the two men received a grant for a mycelium-based electrode for lithium ion batteries.

“We were trying to tweak the chemical composition of the mycelium to make a better battery. What we found was that we were making something nutritious and edible,” said Huggins.

Also… the battery companies didn’t want it.

Now, backed by $28 million from Acre, Prelude Ventures, Congruent Ventures and Tao Capital, Meati is ready to go to market. The company also has access to debt capital to build out its vast network of mycelium growing facilities. It’s just raised a $18 million debt round from Trinity and Silicon Valley Bank.

“Two years ago … most companies in this space … there wasn’t this ability to take on debt to put steel in the ground,” said Huggins. “It’s an exciting time to be in food tech given that you can raise VC funding and there’s this ready available market for debt financing. You’ll start seeing faster and more rapid development because of it.”

Meati co-founders Tyler Huggins and Justin Whiteley. Image Credit: Meati

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