How sustainable are fake meats?

Enlarge / A stack of plant-based Impossible Burgers. (credit: Impossible Foods) If you’re an environmentally aware meat-eater, you probably carry at least a little guilt to the dinner table. The meat on our plates comes at a significant environmental cost through deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions, and air and water pollution—an uncomfortable reality, given the world’s […]

Beyond beef: biotech food startup Memphis Meats just unveiled lab-grown chicken

Last year, it was the “world’s first clean meatball” that helped Memphis Meats grab headlines in February. In November, the startup launched an Indiegogo campaign with plans to grow cultured poultry meat in the lab. Today, the company announced that it has successfully served chicken and duck meat without having raised or slaughtered a bird. “It […]