Bond Pet Foods Beefs Up Its Science Team
Biotechnology industry veterans join Bond to accelerate the development of its animal-free meat proteins produced through precision fermentation
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BOULDER, Colo., May 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Bond Pet Foods has recruited Biotechnology industry leaders Dr. Tony Day and Dr. Mike Arbige to join the Boulder, Colorado company reimagining pet nutrition by developing pet food products made from meat protein that s brewed instead of farmed. Bond s transformative approach leverages microbial fermentation technology to produce chicken, turkey and beef proteins through a process that s more sustainable and humane than its conventional counterparts.
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I celebrated my birthday this week with some of the finest food Winnipeg has to offer. My wife Jackie and I began celebrating on Sunday night. We ordered some of our favourite dishes from Vientiane Restaurant on Marion (their spring rolls are the best!) which I brought home so we could watch the Oscars. We were apparently the only ones watching. Jackie had already picked up a Banana Split cake from Chocolate Zen on South Osborne so we enjoyed a piece of that too. Then on Monday, my actual birthday, my friend Jim Willox delivered lunch for meâ¦maybe one of the best beef satay soups Iâve ever had from Ha Long Bay Restaurant on Notre Dame. And as if all that wasnât enough, Phil Klein at Bagelsmith on Carlton heard it was my birthday and he dropped off a smoked meat bagel sandwich and some bagels and schmears. I ate well all week! What a great birthdayâ¦
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While people continue to rescue and adopt cats and dogs, many farmed animals face a different fate as a result. Pets aren’t included as consumers in the calculations for overall US meat consumption, but animal-derived products make up a significant portion of their diet. If cats and dogs made up their own country, they would rank fifth in terms of meat consumption, according to a 2017 study published in the scientific journal
Foodtech investor Lever VC holds fourth close of Fund I at $46m
A package of Beyond Meat Inc. plant-based sausage is displayed for a photograph in Tiskilwa, Illinois, U.S., on Tuesday, April 23, 2019.
April 14, 2021
Lever VC has made the fourth close of its Lever VC Fund I at $46 million as it gears up to ramp up investments in early-stage alternative protein startups around the world. The firm is slated to make the final close of its fund by June this year.
Following its first close of $23 million in mid-2020, the fund’s third and fourth close include the addition of three corporate strategic investors from Europe and Asia, said Lever VC in a statement on Tuesday. These strategic investors include one of the world’s biggest agri-food companies that has over $50 billion in annual revenue, it said, without naming this limited partner (LP).