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July 6th, 2023 Co Down food company Finnebrogue is joining forces with a company in England to create the first commercially-available lab-grown wagyu beef burgers. It has signed a letter of intent with Ivy Farm Technologies to produce cultivated wagyu burgers once the industry gets the regulatory go-ahead. Continue reading here.

December 2023 Take a look at what our new Chief Science Officer, Dr. Harsh Amin, has to say about commercialisation and the future of cultivated meat. Read more on Food Navigator

January 26th, 2024 “The enthusiasm and anticipation surrounding cultivated meat are substantial. And with companies like Eat Just and Upside Foods introducing cultivated meat to consumers in Singapore and the US, the industry has taken its first initial steps toward establishing itself as an environmentally impactful alternative to traditional meat, without compromising on flavor or… Continue reading Food Industry Executive: Commercial Partnerships: The Path to Mainstream Integration for the Cultivated Meat Industry

April 21st, 2023 MSN, The Telegraph, and the EMEA Tribune report on the statement from our CEO, Rich Dillon regarding Brexit. Rich outlined how the red tape inherited from the EU is preventing the business from launching its products. Although our company is “proudly British”, he says he must decide whether to stay in Oxford… Continue reading Take advantage of Brexit or I’ll move to the US, says boss of lab-grown meat company

April 20th, 2023 “I gave up eating meat because of the damage it does to the planet but occasionally I break my own rules. Now, a rise in “alternative proteins”, some of which are derived from real animal cells, might allow me to get my meat-fix, minus the climate guilt. In September 2018, I decided… Continue reading Sky News: I’m a bad vegetarian who sometimes breaks the rules. Could lab-grown steak be the answer?

April 3rd, 2023 The first cultivated beef burger you eat will probably contain only a small amount of animals cells—and a whole lot of green stuff. The future of meat poses a philosophical conundrum. Some things we can unequivocally call a beef burger. A 100 percent beef patty, for example. Take out some of that… Continue reading WIRED: Lab-Grown Burgers Have a Secret Ingredient: Plants

Rich Dillon is the CEO of Ivy Farm Technologies, a leading cultivated meat company based in Oxford, UK. Ivy Farm describes itself as a “disruptive food-tech startup on a mission to create real meat in a radically more sustainable way and to tackle one of the world’s biggest climate polluters – industrial agriculture”. Read on at… Continue reading “Fighting Climate Change with Cultivated Meat is a Global Opportunity”

January 25th, 2024 With the announcement of the FSA streamlining their regulatory process combined with the UK government’s intention to push the country to become a tech superpower, the future of cultivated meat is looking bright. Read on to hear how our CEO is looking at this development. Read more on The Grocer

Investment into the UK’s cultivated meat sector soared by 400% in 2022, but industry figures have warned that regulation may be stifling growth and causing startups to look overseas. Read more here (UKTN)

Our founder, Russ Tucker, wrote an article about why food technology, such as cultivated meat and precision fermentation, needs a regulatory revolution. Read for more here.