Cultured meat

Mergers, closures, diversification: What is happening to Singapore’s cultivated meat sector?

SINGAPORE piqued interest when it was the first country in the world to approve the sale of cultivated chicken in 2020, attracting both local and global players to set up their operations here.

Meatiply's cultivated duck with skin, fat, and muscle layers - one of the company's three advanced cultivated meat technology prototypes.

Cultivated meat startup Meatiply secures US$3.8 million seed funding at first close

SINGAPORE-BASED Meatiply has secured some US$3.8 million in the first close of its seed funding round co-led by its existing investor Wavemaker Partners and US venture capital firm AgFunder.

Meatable is looking to sell its cultivated pork products in Singapore by Q2 2024, subject to regulatory approvals.

Meatable to launch first cultivated pork products in Singapore by Q2 2024

DUTCH food-tech company Meatable will launch its first cultivated pork products in Singapore by Q2 2024, subject to regulatory approvals.

France's proposed ban applies only to products made and sold in France. It bans a list of 21 meat names to describe protein-based products, including “steak”, “escalope”, “spare ribs”, “ham” or “butcher”.  Above: Lab-cultured "pork".

France makes fresh bid to ban meat names for plant-based food

FRANCE unveiled on Monday (Sep 4) revised proposals banning the use of meat names like “steak” and “spare ribs” for plant-based food made in the country, as it seeks to avoid “misleading claims” of so...

The company, founded in 2020, is among a handful of front runners in lab-grown meat production in China.

China’s CellX pilots lab-grown meat production, eyes US market

IN an unassuming industrial park on the outskirts of Shanghai, an unusual taste test was happening.

More cultured meat firms and researchers need to consider regional culinary preferences across Asia, such as fishballs or dumplings.
LIFE & CULTURE

Time for lab-grown fishballs instead of burgers?

For cultivated meat to be a global success, it needs to be accepted by consumers in both Western and Eastern countries