Certain signs are pointing to several trends to expect, none of which bode well for employees.
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A look-back at the fall of biotech meat, effective altruism, and other cons
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It’s been a rough few months for Upside Foods, as reporters are finally asking deeper questions about the BS technology of cell cultured meat.
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Wired exposes CEO Josh Tetrick's irresponsible spending and troubling mismanagement
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I have been following the trial and verdict closely for how the media is picking up on the connections to EA and its highly questionable tenets.
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In the wake of the news of Bankman-Fried’s arrest, many in the EA world have maintained that we should not “throw the baby out with the bathwater”.
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With crypto's golden boy on trial, time to question the cult of effective altruism.
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Eat Just lays off 40 employees right after receiving $16 million and I have questions. Instead I get annoying emails from the company’s head of PR.
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The plant-based egg and biotech meat company’s history of unethical practices, endless pivots, and lack of financial viability all call into question this decision.
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Omeat's new product purports to be an "ethical alternative to fetal bovine serum" for cell-based meat by extracting plasma from adult cows on a farm. But is it really?
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Latest round of cruel layoffs for a well-funded "alt-protein" company.
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Notorious abuse enabler from Mercy for Animals named to new investment fund.
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Government approval means nothing without a market.
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Regardless of how close regulatory approval may be for cell-cultured meat, or for that matter, scientific viability, if and when any product is ready to be commercially sold, the nascent industry faces significant marketplace challenges that few seem to be talking about.
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The fantasy of biotech meat is a dangerous distraction from the entrenched politics that made conventional meat production so ubiquitous in the first place.
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This week the massive Natural Products Expo resumes. It came as somewhat of a surprise when New Hope, the event’s organizer, recently explained it was letting in a new category of foods, those made with synthetic biology, also known as genetic engineering. This move is troubling for several reasons, all of which further confusion.
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These days, the rush to replicate animal products and ingredients has far less to do with meeting consumer demand. Rather, it’s all about investor frenzy, and “because we can.”
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