Mar 15, 2023

In 2021, a lengthy analysis was published by a now-defunct online news outlet concluding that cultivating animal cells at commercial meat industry scale was simply a pipedream. Josh March didn’t really disagree. But he thought if you could bioengineer the animal cells to get more comfortable at production scale, and...

Mar 1, 2023

The Business of Being an Author and Influencer with Toni Okamoto of Plant-Based on a Budget

This is a special episode of this podcast, because the guest is not only an entrepreneur making money by making the world a better place, but she also just happens to be my wife. Toni Okamoto is the founder and CEO of Plant-Based...

Feb 15, 2023

President Biden recently signed into law the FDA Modernization Act 2.0, new legislation that ends the FDA’s mandate that all drugs be tested on animals prior to human clinical trials. The new law doesn’t prohibit animal testing, but it does give companies the choice of whether to conduct animal experiments or not,...

Feb 1, 2023

You’ve heard of the companies seeking to build new brands of animal-free meat, but you hear a lot less about the B2B companies working behind the scenes to give those pioneers the tools they need to succeed.

One such company, Matrix FT, recently debuted what it’s calling Ohio’s first cultivated chicken nugget,...

Jan 15, 2023

Usually when you hear about meat’s connection to methane, it’s about all the methane that cows are emitting into the atmosphere, accelerating climate change. What if, however, you could capture methane before it goes into the atmosphere, and feed it to microbes which in turn convert it into protein-packed...