US agribusiness giant Cargill has announced it is investing in Bflike, a startup producing ingredients that can be used to improve alt-meat products. Bfilke was created by Dutch incubator BOX NV.
Cargill: “We Take the View That We Need All Forms of Protein on the Table”
Minneapolis headquartered agribusiness giant Cargill, the largest privately held company in the United States in terms of revenue, has been active in the plant-based and alternative protein space for several years. As a platform concerned solely with the plant- and cell- based business niche (not to say we are unconcerned as a team about well-documented issues of ethics or sustainability, but these are not the focus areas of this publication), that encourages the entrance of conventional protein producers into the production of plant-based meat, we are interested in reporting on such a company’s work in the space to keep our readers informed of the activities of key players. Some of said activities undertaken by Cargill in recent years include, in reverse chronological order: Signs commercial …