2013-present
2013-now
The newest chapter is being written in labs, boardrooms, and regulators' offices: a burger grown from cells, a challenge month that went global, dietitians signing off, and the first governments clearing cultivated meat for sale. This page keeps growing. The fights below, tracked day by day in our Storylines, become history here as they resolve.
- 2013
August 5, 2013
The First Cultured Burger
A burger grown from cow cells was cooked and eaten on live television in London, the first public proof the idea could leave the lab.
Source: Wikipedia, Cultured meatThere is really a bite to it, there is quite some flavour with the browning
Hanni Rutzler, food researcher, tasting in London, August 5, 2013 - 2014
January 2014
Veganuary Begins
A UK non-profit turned the first month of the year into an on-ramp, and millions have used it since.
Source: Wikipedia, Veganuarypromotes the vegan lifestyle by encouraging people to follow a vegan diet for the month of January
Jane Land and Matthew Glover, Veganuary - 2016
2016
The Dietitians Sign Off
The largest body of US registered dietitians affirmed that well-planned vegan diets are healthful at every stage of life.
Source: Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (PubMed)It is the position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics that appropriately planned vegetarian, including vegan, diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits for the prevention and treatment of certain diseases.
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, position paper - 2019
May 2, 2019
Plant-Based Meat Goes Public
Beyond Meat became the first plant-based meat company to go public, and its shares surged on day one, a sign Wall Street saw a real market in meat made from plants.
Source: Wikipedia, Beyond MeatIn May 2019, Beyond Meat became a public company via an initial public offering on the Nasdaq, raising $240 million.
Beyond Meat (Nasdaq: BYND) - 2019
July 11, 2019
Dairy Without a Cow
The startup Perfect Day sold the first ice cream made from real milk protein brewed by fermentation, with no cow anywhere in the supply chain.
Source: Wikipedia, Perfect DayOn July 11, 2019, Perfect Day released its first product, an ice cream made from non-animal whey protein.
Perfect Day - 2020
December 2, 2020
Singapore Says Yes
Singapore became the first country to approve a cultivated-meat product for sale, years ahead of anyone else.
Source: Wikipedia, Cultured meatOn 2 December 2020, the Singapore Food Agency approved the
Singapore Food Agency; Eat Just - 2022
November 16, 2022
The FDA's First Green Light
The FDA completed its first safety consultation for cultivated meat, telling UPSIDE Foods it had no further questions.
Source: US Food and Drug Administrationno further questions at this time about the firm
US Food and Drug Administration; UPSIDE Foods - 2023
June 21, 2023
Cultivated Meat Goes on Sale in America
With USDA grants of inspection, two companies could finally sell cultivated chicken in the United States.
Source: The Good Food InstituteUPSIDE Foods and GOOD Meat received landmark grants of inspection
US Department of Agriculture; UPSIDE Foods; GOOD Meat
Still being fought
These storylines have not resolved yet. When they do, each becomes a moment above, the same morning it concludes.
- Accountability for a slaughterhouse's humane-methods violations
- The alt-protein funding winter
- Factory farms in court
- The global foie gras ban push
- Costco's chicken welfare accountability fight
- Congress's ultra-processed food crackdown
- Rhiza mycoprotein's market-by-market rollout
- Marineland's beluga transfers
- The end of male chick culling
- The octopus farming ban push
- California's plant-based school food funding
- Oregon's animal cruelty ballot fight
- The vegan conscience rights precedent
- The cultivated-meat state bans
- The Endangered Species Act habitat rollback
- The FDA's ultra-processed food fight
- The blind-approval testing fight
- JBS's climate retreat
- The Calgary Stampede accountability fight
- The Every Company's egg protein scale-up
- USDA's chicken farmer protections rollback
- The hospital plant-protein pledge
- The UK cultivated meat sandbox
- The CITES delegation conflict
- Marineland's animal clearout
- The plant-based labeling wars
- Quebec's fur farm accountability fight
- The EU protein policy gap
- Denmark's factory farm reform pledge
- Peru's vegan university meal ruling
- The cultivated-meat approval path
This history is still being written.
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