Jeff Bezos is accelerating the future of lab grown meat. And he is partnering up with one of the leading scientific universities in the United States to do it.
What’s happening:
- The charitable foundation of Jeff Bezos has awarded a $30 million grant to North Carolina State University to accelerate research around cultivated meat and alternative protein production
Why it matters:
- Cultivated meat has been on a rapid rise recently, with Eat Just's subsidiary Good Meat launching cell cultivated meat in retailers for the first time ever in Singapore
By the numbers:
- The Bezos Earth Fund has $10B of funding committed to various research projects and charitable endeavours, with $60M USD already being committed to alternative protein production and cultivated meat
Going deeper:
- Food giant Cargill has been announced as one of the companies who will collaborate with the new research being conducted by North Carolina State University, which will happen from a new building on the campus known as The Bezos Centre For Sustainable Protein
- Factory farming and traditional agriculture is under enormous pressure to reduce both their greenhouse gas and carbon emissions, which has prompted the government of Canada to provide funding for cultivated meat and Brazil based food giant JBS to begin construction of the world’s largest facility for cultivated meat and alternative proteins
The intrigue:
- The first ever tasting for cultivated meat in the European Union recently happened with Meatable debuting their cell cultivated sausage after receiving regulatory approval around their product safety
