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Got milk? For now
Jim Mulhern of the National Milk Producers Federation doesn t look like a prize fighter, but when he joined the association, he saw an industry that had let the plant-based foods sector walk over it for too long. This is an issue we ve been dealing with for the better part of 35 years, Mulhern said. The problem is, we played nice. I decided not to play so nice and deploy a different strategy and raise visibility of the issue with consumers and legislators.
Mowi Canada West spokesperson Dean Dobrinsky told
Readers over the past week were also fascinated by the idea of 3D-printed salmon. Thanks to Austrian startup Revo Foods, which specializes in 3D food printing, that can be added to the list of new technologies that could reshape the future of the seafood industry.
Its 29-year-old founder and CEO, Robin Simsa, told
Speaking of ideas that are upending the seafood industry, Editor-in-Chief Drew Cherry analyzed how Mowi and Leroy Seafoods are upending the land-based salmon farming frontier.
If indeed the two giants were to pursue salmon farming on land in any major way, it would completely change the landscape and make the current projects seem cute by comparison, Cherry wrote.