Melissa Sue Sorrells 2025-01-23 04:55:16
Serious stuff
As you’re reading this, my son is about eight months old, and I don’t have the words to fully explain the joyously terrible dichotomy inherent in being a parent at this stage.
Sometimes, it’s all fun and games — making faces in the mirror, watching him eat his feet and singing silly songs.
But other times, it’s weighing the risks and benefits of healthcare decisions, comforting him while he screams for no discernible reason or dragging myself out of bed at 4 am to make a bottle.
Covering the alternative meat industry has the same vibes: Sometimes, I’m geeking out over a cool, but complex, science concept (see IntegriCulture’s bioreactors on page 29) or taste testing a new plant-based CPG product (page 37).
But other times, I’m considering what it takes to build a non-toxic corporate culture as a startup (page 14) or how nutrition history shapes the current consumer market (page 4). Pictured above is Baby Travis, pondering these serious mysteries of the universe with me.
All that to say, this issue is loaded with interesting stories, great advice and fresh insights on the plantbased meat market (see page 30 and page 8) as well as cellular agriculture (see page 10 and page 26) for 2025 and beyond.
As this new year rolls into full gear, it brings myriad uncertainties along with it: Will Vow be approved to commercialize in Australia? Will plant-based alt-meat companies find a new source of funding capital? Will the novel foods regulatory process completely stall in the United States? I don’t know the answers, but I know Alt-Meat will be here to help make sense of it all.
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