RFK Jr. Says He’s Been Picking Up Roadkill His ‘Whole Life,’ Once Had ‘Freezer Full Of It’

RFK Jr. Says He’s Been Picking Up Roadkill His ‘Whole Life,’ Once Had ‘Freezer Full Of It’

Presidential hopeful, brainworm survivor and dead bear relocator Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is a weird guy. His campaign has remained sort of in the spotlight because of his name and because of the strange shit he does and says. Well, after this week’s dead bear in Central Park incident, we’ve got a new weird RFK … Read more

Massive Meat Spill Clogged One Of Oakland’s Arterial Roads

Massive Meat Spill Clogged One Of Oakland’s Arterial Roads

A truck spilled its load of raw chicken and beef all across Interstate 880 in Oakland, California, causing several meat-induced spin-outs last Friday afternoon around 5 p.m.. The meat spill happened close to the Oakland Coliseum where country singer Zach Bryan was performing that night, hamstringing travel for commuters and concert goers from miles around. … Read more

Plant-Based Meat Boomed. Here Comes the Bust

Plant-Based Meat Boomed. Here Comes the Bust

Over the past three years, the plant-based meat industry has experienced a major reversal in vibes. Sales boomed in the early months of the pandemic, as slaughterhouse shutdowns disrupted conventional meat supply chains and shoppers started trying out meatless burgers, sausages, and seafood instead. Between 2018 and 2021, total sales of plant-based foods in the … Read more

States Are Lining Up to Outlaw Lab-Grown Meat

States Are Lining Up to Outlaw Lab-Grown Meat

The pushback from legislators sympathetic to ranchers and the broader meat industry puts cultivated meat companies in a difficult situation. Major meat producers Cargill and Tyson have both invested in cultivated meat companies, while Brazil’s JBS is working on a cultivated research site in Brazil. “We see ourselves as an ‘and’ solution, not an ‘or.’ … Read more

Leading Lab-Grown Meat Company Upside Foods Just Paused a Major Expansion

Leading Lab-Grown Meat Company Upside Foods Just Paused a Major Expansion

It has been a rocky year for plans for large-scale cultivated meat production. In May 2022, another Californian startup, Eat Just, announced its plans to build up to 10 large bioreactors, each with a 250,000-liter capacity, with the bioreactor firm ABEC. The deal later fell apart, with ABEC later filing an amended legal complaint in … Read more

You Can’t Buy Lab-Grown Meat Even If You Wanted To

You Can’t Buy Lab-Grown Meat Even If You Wanted To

“The restaurant dinners we held at China Chilcano in Washington, DC last summer went extremely well,” wrote Eat Just’s director of global communications, Carrie Kabat, in an emailed statement to WIRED. “We plan to resume these dinners this year.” Good Meat/Eat Just’s chicken had also previously been on sale in Singapore, but sales there have … Read more