Alternative Protein

Highlights

Courtesy of Hilmar Cheese Co. Inc.
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Capital Spending

Hilmar Cheese Co. Cuts Ribbon on New Dodge City, Kansas, Plant

March 19, 2025
New, $600 million investment incorporates various sustainability and conservation initiatives to help the dairy industry and company reach its targets.
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Dairy, Cheese, Eggs

Brown Foods Unveils First Lab-Made Whole Cow Milk Product

Feb. 25, 2025
Company already has begun to work toward a version 2.0 of the cultivated cow milk, which will be more refined, with a consumer tasting target of late 2025 and market pilot in ...
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Animal Proteins

Trying Meatable's Cultivated Meat Product: Editor's Real-Time Reactions

Feb. 25, 2025
Food Processing Editor Andy Hanacek samples and gives his immediate review of sausages containing Meatable's cultivated meat product.
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Animal Proteins

Meat Institute Appoints Nicole Johnson-Hoffman as New COO

Jan. 3, 2025
Protein industry veteran will take the reins from Mark Dopp, who is retiring in March 2025.
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Ingredients

New Ingredients: September 2024

Sept. 13, 2024
Plant-based butter substitute from Bunge; marbled 'steaks' from Planteneers; upcycled certification from Ingredion Inc.; protein and cereal bars from Gelita USA; Sante and CTC...
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Ingredients

GLP-1 Diets – Opportunity, not Liability

Sept. 6, 2024
There is much current excitement over GLP-1 drugs for weight loss, but their appetite suppression must be countered with protein and other nutritional ingredients.
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Alternative Protein

Elmhurst 1925 Offers a DIY Plant-Based Chicken

Aug. 19, 2024
The plant-based dairy introduces TerraMeat Plant-Based Chick’n, an ingredient pouch to make hemp-based ‘chicken’ at home.
Courtesy of Meati Foods
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People on the Move

Meati Adds Chief Commercial Officer, Board Member to Leadership Team

July 25, 2024
John Bortells will become the new CCO, and CPG veteran Becky O’Grady joins the alternative protein processor’s board.
People on the Move

Meati Foods Names New CFO, Touts Experience Balancing Sustainability, Financials

Feb. 5, 2024
Phil Graves, former exec from Wild Idea Buffalo Co., Bass Pro Shops and Patagonia, joins the mushroom-based "meat" producer.
Power Lunch

Power Lunch: The Path to Profitability in the Plant-Based Meat Industry

Jan. 23, 2024
These analogues may require more collaboration than typical retail/consumer products.
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International

Aleph Farms Gets World’s First Approval of Cultured Beef

Jan. 18, 2024
The Israeli firm has approval to sell its cell-grown beef in its home country Israel.
Legal Issues

U.S. Senator Reintroduces Real MEAT Act to Label Alternative Proteins as ‘Imitation’

Nov. 17, 2023
Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) originally introduced the Real MEAT Act in 2019 to clearly differentiate alternative proteins from animal proteins on product labels.