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Leading Lab-Grown Meat Company Upside Foods Just Paused a Major Expansion

In September 2023, Upside Foods announced its plans to open a large cultivated-meat plant in Glenview, Illinois. The 187,000-square-foot plant was slated to have an initial capacity of millions of pounds of...

You Can’t Buy Lab-Grown Meat Even If You Wanted To

July 2023 was a landmark moment for the cultivated meat industry. For the first time, meat brewed directly from chicken cells went on sale in two US restaurants after a pair of...

Insiders Say Eat Just Is in Big Financial Trouble

Popular vegan egg and lab-grown-meat company Eat Just is in deep financial trouble. A WIRED investigation bringing together court records, documents, and interviews from former employees suggests that the company frequently struggled...

Fake Meat Is Bleeding, but It’s Not Dead Yet

The day it went public in May 2019, Beyond Meat’s stock soared by 163 percent—the best one-day performance for a major American company in nearly two decades. The Los Angeles–based company, along...

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