lab-grown meat

19 Nov

You Can Now Buy Lab-Grown Foie Gras

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At an upscale sushi bar in New York last week, a smattering of media and policy types chowed down on a menu of sushi rolls, peking duck tapas, and mushroom salad. But what made this menu unusual was the one ingredient that ran through the dishes—foie gras made from quail cells brewed in a bioreactor. The event, catered by the sushi chef Masa Takayama, was a launch party for Australian cultivated meat firm Vow, which will sell its foie gras at a handful of restaurants in Singapore and Hong Kong.The meal was decadent—one course featured a mountain of black truffle—but…

01 Jul

Leading Lab-Grown Meat Company Cuts Dozens of Jobs

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Cultivated meat firm Upside Foods has cut its workforce as the industry continues to struggle with bans from legislators and a significant downturn in venture capital funding. In an email sent to employees, Upside CEO Uma Valeti wrote that 26 people would leave the company and that executive and leadership teams would be restructured to “reduce top-heavy structures.”“Our focus must now narrow to a tighter set of priorities that pave the way for our product launches in the next two years,” Valeti wrote in the email seen by WIRED. “We need to deliver on the work that remains, especially on…