Soup-To-Nuts Podcast: As food insecurity soars, Simply Organic funds innovative solutions Since the pandemic began, food insecurity in America has increased exponentially, and stakeholders across the value chain are stepping up to provide relief, including Simply Organic, which is giving $150,000 to five organizations that not only help put food on the tables of those in need but which do so with an eye towards environmental sustainability and reducing the risk of food insecurity going forward.
Recognizing the dramatic impact of the pandemic on food insecurity, which Feeding America estimates has touched 17 million more people in the US since the outbreak began for a total of 54 million people nationwide, Simply Organic increased its giving by $50,000 during this grant cycle – bringing donations from the Simply Organic Giving Fund to more than $2 million over the past 20 years.
Brexit has been an ‘almost unmitigated disaster’ for food and drink in Scotland, according to Fergus Ewing, the Scottish government's cabinet secretary for rural economy and tourism.
The ‘meat’ in question would be a “
slurry or paste made out of meat cells, comparable to very finely ground meat, suitable for further formulation into meat-consumer products” as opposed to a next-generation more structured, steak-like product, explain the authors at
CE Delft, noting that cells from water-based species can be grown at lower temperatures (15-30°C), saving some heating costs.
The economics of cell-cultured meat production
“Basic thermodynamics” dictate that growing meat from cells in bioreactors instead of living, breathing, animals should be more efficient, as resources “
are spent on growing only the cells that make up the meat product rather than maintaining the day-to-day activities of an entire animal’s body,” noted GFI senior scientist Elliot Swartz, in an analysis of the studies you can read
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Our ancestors’ diets changed dramatically over the course of the past 2.5 million years, and one research team thinks that profoundly affected our evolution.
According to a team including Miki Ben-Dor and Ran Barkai at Tel Aviv University in Israel, hominin diets were once so dominated by meat from massive animals that the hunters caused some of those species to go extinct. This, in turn, forced our ancestors to develop more sophisticated hunting techniques to bring down smaller, more elusive prey, leading to greater intelligence and the … Continue reading Subscribe now for unlimited access
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CellRx on a mission to slash cost of growth factors used in cell-cultured meat production For cell-cultured meat to be commercially viable, we’ll need to see significant movement in the price and availability of growth factors (signaling proteins that stimulate cell growth and differentiation) says UK-based CellRx, which says it can produce a proprietary version of insulin-like growth factor at a fraction of the standard price for IGF-1.
One of the many challenges facing cell-cultured meat companies is producing an affordable animal-free growth medium (early prototypes of cell cultured beef, for example, used fetal bovine serum, the liquid part of blood, a byproduct of the livestock industry, which somewhat defeats the purpose of cell-cultured meat).