Fake Meat

Wisconsin’s Tammy Baldwin will serve as the Chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture during this Congress. She said one of her top goals is helping the farming community recover from COVID-19. “There were a lot of underlying challenges to dairy and agriculture prior to the pandemic but the pandemic, as we know, wreaks havoc on our economy, and particularly in agriculture iss

The agri-food-tech sector saw a record investment total in 2020. AgFunder reports total dollars committed to agri-food-tech ventures in 2020 are expected to hit $30.5 billion, representing a 34.5% year over year increase. The sector's stellar performance is attributable to an increasing number of big funding rounds, signifying a maturing sector with a few clear outliers ...

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association set its Top 2021 Policy Priorities that feature a focus on advocating for a business climate that increases opportunities for producer profitability. “There’s no doubt last year was a difficult one for cattle producers and we must work to implement sound policy and focus our attention on the legislative and regulatory areas that’ll give U.S. cattle produc

Two meat industry groups urge the USDA to support mandatory labeling of cell-based/cultured meat and poultry products. The Meat Institute and the Alliance for Meat, Poultry and Seafood Innovation penned a letter to USDA Monday. The groups also call on USDA to solicit input on what that labeling should look like through an Advance Notice of Public Rulemaking ...

When you visit your local supermarket, you may have noticed more and more plant-based proteins in the traditional meat case. RaboResearch's Christine McCraken said there are several reasons more consumer are accepting these alternatives, and one of the chief, their ability to mimic meat characteristics ...

Oklahoma has a new law governing labeling for some vegan products. A vegan company doesn’t like that and has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of western Oklahoma. The suit was filed by Upton’s Naturals Company, an Illinois-based business that sells plant-based foods, and the Plant-Based Foods Association, a group with 170 members. The Tul ...

Many in the beef and pork industry have expressed concerns that alternative proteins would become a replacement for American Consumers. However Andy Harid with Food Marketing Institute said that's not happening, saying that consumers that purchase "fake meat" do so in addition to typical meat purchases, rather than as a replacement. He ...

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association recently released survey results that show widespread consumer confusion about plant-based alternative protein products and the ingredients they contain.  Less than half of the 1,800 respondents understood the labeling term “plant-based beef” was intended to describe an entirely vegetarian or vegan food product.  One major source of ...

It’s not just the state of Washington that looking this session to identify what meat is and is not.   Twelve Republican senators are sponsoring a bill in the Maryland General Assembly that focuses on meat products that are made from plants or insects or contain lab-grown animal tissue.  The bill...

Cattlemen across the Northwest and across the country are watching the growing number of alternative proteins coming on the market.  How’s the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association responding when it comes to the regulatory front as well as PR?   “We’ve ...