It’s not agriculture the way most of us think of it: A farmer on a tractor plowing up the soil or a crew of farmworkers harvesting a crop. How could it be? Karim Giscombe, founder and CEO of PLANT-AG, sees the food system as so broken that the only way
Continue Reading Focusing in on the details of the food revolution that is on its way
The CEA (controlled environment agriculture) Food Safety Coalition has announced the first-ever food safety certification program specifically for CEA-grown leafy greens.
Now members of the industry coalition can choose to be assessed for the CEA Leafy Greens Module, and upon successful completion will be allowed to use the CEA food-safe
Continue Reading Coalition launches food safety program for indoor-grown leafy greens
Editor’s note: Each Spring, attorneys Bill Marler and Denis Stearns teach a Food Safety Litigation course in the LL.M. Program in Agricultural and Food Law at the University of Arkansas School of Law. This specialized program for attorneys brings together those who are interested in our food system, from farm
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Correction on byline: This opinion piece originally posted with the wrong byline. The error has been corrected.
By Brian P. Sylvester, Jessica P. O’Connell and John C. Balzano
In a global first, in recent days, Singapore greenlighted the marketing of a cell-based meat product for human consumption. The approval
Continue Reading Singapore greenlights cell-based meat; when will the U.S.?
Have you ever eaten a dinosaur before?
Turns out that a lot of kids, and adults, have thanks to Perdue Farm’s “Chicken Plus” nuggets that are shaped like dinosaurs. But more notable than their shape is what’s inside. Each one of these “tiny giants” is made from a 50/50
Continue Reading ‘Flexitarians’ drive meat-vegetable hybrids toward more marketshare
Eat Just Inc., the privately-held San Francisco company known for plant-based alternatives to egg products, has gained regulatory approval in Singapore to produce and sell lab-grown chicken meat.
Approval by the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) came on Dec. 2.
Eat Just Inc. was founded in 2011 by Josh Tetrick and
Continue Reading Eat Just Inc. gets approval in Singapore for lab-grown chicken
Los Angeles-based Beyond Meat’s expansion to the People’s Republic of China announced in early September, is already taking shape with a new product roll-out for the Chinese market.
From Shanghai, Beyond Meat officials said their newest product produced in China is trademarked as “Beyond Pork.”
The company said the plant-based
Continue Reading Beyond Meat introduces ‘Beyond Pork’ for Chinese market
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“We are farmers who live in apartments.” Thus begins an introduction to Gotham Greens, a large U.S. greenhouse farm.
Continue Reading Food safety helped spur dream of greenhouses on urban rooftops
An indoor agricultural evolution is in the making. That’s how some people see the surge of interest in growing leafy greens in greenhouses. No doubt about it, this approach to farming has increased dramatically in every corner of the country, even the South.
Not surprisingly, food safety has been one
Continue Reading Safety aspects of indoor farming signal a change in agriculture
Some fresh produce from hydroponic growers has been approved for and is being sold under USDA’s organic seal, but farmers who grow their organic crops in the soil don’t like the competition.
The litigious Center for Food Safety two weeks ago filed a rule-making petition with U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Continue Reading Organic industry is not giving hydroponic, aquaponic growers a warm embrace
