Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, youth activist and Million Dollar Vegan advocate Genesis Butler, and vegan entrepreneur Heather Mills are part of a group supporting the JIVINITI campaign, asking the Biden-Harris administration to push for plant-based solutions to a range of pressing issues including Covid-19 pandemic, food insecurity, chronic illness, and climate change.
Cultivated & Fermented Foods Could Receive Increased Support Through UK Government’s Industrial Strategy
The UK government has published a new Industrial Strategy that pledges £184 million to boost the country’s engineering biology industry by building and upgrading pilot and scale-up facilities. The pledge has been made under the strategy’s Digital and Technologies Sector Plan, and could benefit producers of cultivated meat, cultivated ingredients, and fermentation-based foods. The plan specifically highlights London-based cultivated meat startup Multus to illustrate how clusters of engineering biology expertise already exist in different regions. Additionally, it explains how the UK’s cultivated meat regulatory sandbox could help to boost engineering biology. Designed to improve regulators’ scientific knowledge of cultivated meat, the sandbox is described as the first of its kind in Europe and has received £1.6 million in government funding. The plan pledges to partner …