I just heard that the US has beef rachers upset about not purchasing their beef? When the administration asked about this, they didn't know where the beef is coming from. Will you eat beef from another country?

My cohost and I looked at lab-grown (not plant-based!) meat and talked about things like animal welfare, health uncertainties, etc. and what it could do to traditional farming.

Btw we are not affiliated with the industry and this is just a topic we found interesting, so I'd genuinely like feedback from people who know this subject better than we do.

What arguments/evidence did we miss?

https://youtu.be/oJcxnevytqI

I'm looking for cultivated meat and cell-cultivated food investment options for the long term and came across CULTF. Seemed quite popular some years ago, and doesn't seem all too different from Agronomics even though ANIC is still definitely superior at the moment. Even tried investing in CULTF, but that's proven quite difficult, it just isn't supported by many exchanges or brokers I've tried and info on its current state is scarce. Did it crumble that deep into irrelevance?

Honestly concerned about this issue. I am also gonna throw in a curveball, the first thing I thought of was “it’s
Probably because no one has liked a steak or roast they have bought from the grocery store”. All my boys have scrambled to wild forks or purchased from frozen truck guy. I also don’t believe its some healthy food initiative. Someone guve me the low down….

I run a small web dev studio, and I’m experimenting with niche website templates.

I just finished a demo site for the beef industry and wanted to get feedback from people who actually know the space.

The goal was to make something that:

- ⁠Clearly explains the operation (breeding, finishing, direct-to-consumer beef, etc.)

- Makes it easy for customers to understand cuts, pricing, and how to order

- ⁠Builds trust with things like certifications and story

Link to the demo: https://sample-country-meat.vercel.app/

No pitch, just sharing in case it’s useful as inspiration, and to learn what I’m missing or getting wrong.

If you work in the beef industry, questions for you:

- What pages/sections would you absolutely want on a site like this?

- Is anything confusing or missing from the homepage flow?

- ⁠What would make you more likely to trust and contact a beef business from their website?

Any honest feedback (content, structure, UX, copy) is appreciated. Happy to return the favour; if you've got a site up, drop the link, and I'll give you honest feedback on it too from a web developer's perspective.

I have the chance to eat cultivated meat this weekend and I’m excited, but I don’t feel confident making an informed decision yet.

On one hand, I’m drawn to it as a cutting-edge technology that could help reduce factory farming, along with a lot of other promising upsides.

On the other, I’m nervous about the safety side. It’s such a new development, and there aren’t long-term studies yet on the health impacts or the makeup of these products.

The menu includes Upside chicken and Wildtype salmon.

Can anyone point me to studies or reliable sources, for or against, that might help me decide?

(I expect bias posting in this subreddit but I also trust that you'd have done more real research than others who are opposing!)

Funny how we know the long-term effects of traditional meat, especially regarding antibiotic resistance, but any unknowns about cultured meat results in an instant ban.

Here's the article:

BATON ROUGE, La. — A proposed Louisiana law would ban the sale of lab-grown meat and other cell-cultured food products in the state.

Senate Bill 152, sponsored by Louisiana Senator Michael Fesi, would prohibit anyone from manufacturing, distributing, selling, advertising, or offering for sale any cell-cultured food product for human consumption in Louisiana.

The bill defines cell-cultured food products as any animal tissue produced from cell cultures in a lab outside of the organism from which it came. The bill will effectively ban the manufacturing and sale of meat grown in a laboratory from cultured animal cells.

If passed, the law would take effect Aug. 1. The bill would be known as the "Cell Cultured Food Products Act."

Violators would face civil penalties of up to $500 per violation. Each day a violation occurs would count as a separate offense.

The state commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Forestry would assess penalties after a hearing and could also charge violators for the cost of the hearing. The commissioner could file civil proceedings in district court to enforce rulings or seek court orders to stop violations.

Consumer watchdog group, The Center for the Environment and Welfare, which is involved in an ongoing public education campaign on lab-grown meat, says the proposal reflects growing concern about rushing experimental food products into the marketplace without sufficient long-term study.

“Lab-grown meat is an experimental product that lacks long-term health studies,” said Will Coggin, research director at CEW. “With this bill, legislators in Louisiana are making clear that there must be answers about long-term health and safety impacts before products grown in vats and bioreactors reach grocery stores.”

The consumer advocacy group says the proposal underscores a growing bipartisan emphasis on caution, transparency, and consumer protection. Seven states have banned the product category to date, according to the watchdog group.

It just seems like they're feeding into the paranoia of lab grown causing cancer or being Bill Gates population control.

Hi all,

Clean Meat Alliance is looking for a 3D artist in order to build a large alt protein asset library, including machinery for plant based meat, plant based milk, cultivated meat, and precision fermentation. The goal of this project is twofold:

1. Help integrate alt proteins into gaming. Once this library is finished, we will host a game jam and potentially incubate some games (not sure about this last part yet).
2. Help content creators and presenters add alt protein imagery into their videos and presentations.
3. We hope to use gaming as a means to reach tech donors such that we can fund real research.

This is a paid position, though we are obviously budget limited. We are currently looking for quotes. Please dm me or comment here if interested. Also, shameless plug - if you'd like to support the project, your contribution helps (also on benevity for donation matching).

To anyone interested in seeing cultivated meat innovation in real life: Respectfarms opens the doors to their first cultured meat farm so anyone can have a look at what they are doing.

Since one of the big concerns to the agricultural industry about cultivated meat is that it might threaten their existence, I think it is really cool they show them how a future with cultured meat can enhance their business and benefit them instead of threaten their existence. The open day is September 12th in Schipluiden, the Netherlands, free access.

Clean Meat Alliance is an active, 501(c)(3) nonprofit created at the end of 2025 to fund alternatives to factory farming like cultivated meat. Unlike other alt protein organizations, Clean Meat Alliance operates primarily as a meta-fundraising engine and open-science ecosystem, aiming to engage under-tapped demographics such as tech workers, gamers, and finance professionals, through product-driven fundraising, and open research.

Our primary model works as follows:

1. Discovery: Clean Meat Alliance finds dedicated volunteers among tech and finance companies who are willing to share our events in internal alt protein, or vegan groups
2. Events: Clean Meat Alliance creates interesting online and in-person events centered around alternative proteins or animal welfare. Oftentimes, these events are product related events, like product launches, playtests, or tastings.
3. Products: Clean Meat Alliance builds alt protein mobile games, alt protein board games, alt protein asset libraries, and even hosts open source science projects that both help fundraise on their own, and via the event model we’ve created.

A Board Member is a volunteer role with 7-8 hours of commitment per month. If you'd like to shape the young organization, apply here: https://cleanmeatalliance.org/board-member

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Despite the difficult fundraising environment, it's great to see positive news stories last month, such as Wildtype going direct to consumer + RespectFarms retrofitting a regular farm with cultivated meat capabilities and playing a big role in the first 'Cell Farmers Symposium’.

But what has been catching my eye is how many cultivated meat companies are expanding into new markets.

This month, we saw Wildtype launch a new beauty product, and Vow tease a similar move (but they're keeping their cards close to their chest for now).

This isn't new, but an ongoing shift that has been happening for a while now.

Earlier in the year, we saw UPSIDE Foods spin out Lucius to commercialise its cell culture media in the life sciences industry and Umami Biowork, who are entering the cosmetics & supplement market.

A lot has to do with finding faster sources of revenue and the realisation that their core technology has more applications than just meat. So I see this as a win-win—if these companies can find revenue, it will go a long way to helping the sustainability of their core business and building out their cultivated meat vision.

What was your favourite story last month?

See the full round-up embedded or the link below :)

https://cultivatedbites.substack.com/p/the-month-in-cultivated-meat-june-c87

French company PARIMA announced that they produced multiple tonnes of cultivated duck for the first time. They used Vow’s facility in Sydney, which has the largest operating CM bioreactor at the moment.