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Clean meat: How do US consumers feel about cell cultured meat?

By Elaine Watson

A new study exploring consumer attitudes to clean meat (meat cultured from animal cells outside of an animal) suggests that Americans are surprisingly open to the concept, particularly when presented with information about how ‘conventional’ meat is produced...

Paul Shapiro: 'An incumbent industry being threatened by new technology is hardly new...'

GUEST ARTICLE: Food fight over the M-word

By Paul Shapiro

American regulators have wrestled over how to deal with musicians’ use of the F-word in songs. News organizations have debated how to cover President Trump’s use of the S-word when talking about certain countries. But these days, the big debate seems...

Bright Farms takes local produce model nationwide with hydroponics

Bright Farms takes local produce model nationwide with hydroponics

By Mary Ellen Shoup

It wasn’t too long ago when locally-grown produce evoked images of backyard gardens or roadside produce stands many miles outside of city limits. Now, the local produce movement has morphed into an urban-centered industry thanks to the rise of hydroponic...

No Evil Foods' mock meats marry plant-based and clean-label trends

No Evil Foods' mock meats marry plant-based and clean-label trends

By Elizabeth Crawford

Plant-based meats and clean-label are two of the most influential trends in food currently, but often they run counter to each other with many mock-meats made from highly-processed ingredients and protein isolates that most consumers would never find...

ColorKitchen extends the shelf life and vibrancy of natural colors

ColorKitchen extends the shelf life and vibrancy of natural colors

By Elizabeth Crawford

Thousands of anecdotal reports collected by the Center For Science in the Public Interest and others correlating artificial dyes, such as Red 40, with behavior problems have prompted some parents to seek naturally colored products – many of which fall...

Fluid milk sales are down, but cheese, butter, ready-to-drink coffee sales are up

Got milk? Yes, but not as we used to know it, Jim

By Elaine Watson

While sales of plain dairy milk have been declining for years, and US yogurt production has dropped off after peaking in 2014, new data shows the continued growth of cheese, butter, and ready-to-drink coffee, yogurt drinks and protein beverages featuring...

Plant-based brand Beyond Meat to triple manufacturing footprint

Beyond Meat triples manufacturing footprint

By Elaine Watson

Plant-based meat brand Beyond Meat has opened a second production facility in Columbia, Missouri, that will more than triple its manufacturing footprint from 30,000 to 100,000sq ft and create 250 new jobs in 2018.

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