The cultivated meat is developed from rooster cells - rather than a farmed animal - and its color, smell, and flavor is said to be near-identical to traditional chicken.

San Francisco-based food technology company, GOOD Meat, has become the second US company to gain clearance from the Food and Drug Administration for its cell-based meat.

This startup has found a way to convert agricultural and wood industry byproducts, such as sawdust, into oil. The initiative has now received $1.2 million in funding to bring the product to market by 2026.

Cultivated meat - meat that’s grown in a lab from animal cells rather than from a farmed animal - could be a more sustainable solution to feed China’s population of 1.4 billion people.

Meati Foods opens a huge ranch to produce tens of millions of pounds of animal-free meat that’s made from mushroom root - as investors boost the brand with more than $250 million in funding. 

Food tech company Project Eaden uses bio fiber technology to create its realistic whole cuts of vegan meat.

California-based company Climax already won the largest-ever seed raise for a food tech startup, and now their next-level cheeses are set to take on the $800 billion dairy market.

The historic moment is a step towards a world without slaughterhouses, as Huber’s Butchery in Singapore offers slaughter-free meat cultivated from animal cells, rather than from a farmed animal. 

The vegan foie gras alternative by Hello Plant Foods, a Spanish plant-based meat producer, has exceeded all expectations and taken the country by storm.

The Bel Group, whose brands include Babybel, Laughing Cow, and Boursin, is working with Standing Ovation to create animal-free dairy cheese - a trailblazing solution to combat the devastating ethical and environmental impact of traditional dairy production.

“US consumers will soon have the chance to eat delicious meat that’s grown directly from animal cells,” - Dr. Uma Valeti, CEO and Founder of Upside Foods.

Cruelty-free pet food pioneer, Wild Earth, announces the development of a cell-based meat broth topper for dogs that will be available to consumers in 2023.

Researchers working for the Indian conservation non-profit Wildlife SOS use this software technology to study and track animals like Sloth bears and elephants.

Wildlife Insights is a global database created in collaboration with Google and seven leading conservation organizations, which provides a cloud-based software platform to manage millions of camera-trap conservation images.

The former Hyundai spin-off company Mycel has raised $10 million to develop its groundbreaking mycelium biomaterial that can be used to replace animal products across various industries, including food, fashion, and cosmetics.

Scientists have created a healthier, more sustainable substitute for palm oil that doesn’t destroy the tropical rainforest habitat of endangered orangutans.

Bluu Seafood's fish fingers and fish balls, produced without slaughtering a single animal, are Europe's first market-ready cell-based seafood products.

Meat-free brand SavorEat is taking the future of food to the next level with the launch of their latest 3D-printed vegan turkey and pork burgers that are catered to the diner’s cooking, protein, and fat content preferences by a robot chef.

The novel bioreactor will grow Fy, Nature’s Fynd’s nutritional fungi protein, which was born out of research con­duct­ed for NASA on microbes with ori­gins in Yel­low­stone Nation­al Park.

As industrial agriculture continues to grow, animals, the environment, and people are paying the cost. These innovative food production methods could be the answer to creating a more ethical food system.