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In our weekly column, Future Food Quick Bites, we round up the latest developments in the alt-protein and sustainable food industry.

Meatless Farm is eyeing a future move into the lab-grown meat sector.  The plant-based pioneer’s CEO Morten Toft Bech told The Grocer the brand was looking to potentially acquire not just other brands in the plant-based industry but those on the frontline of creating ‘cell-based’ meat in labs. The growth of lab-grown meat was “an inevitable part of the transition away from animal protein”, said Toft Bech. “And it fits with our mission of reducing industrialised animal agriculture – these types of products make sense. “I think we can pull in some of these interesting products...

Meatless Farm has opened a massive new facility in Calgary, Canada Meatless Farm is has set its sights on global domination with the opening of an entirely new wing of its business supplying plant-based proteins and ingredients to companies across the world. Dubbed Lovingly Made Ingredients, Meatless Farm has opened a massive new facility in Calgary, Canada claimed to be the first of its kind at scale, with a second in the Netherlands due to open and begin production over the coming months, The Grocer can reveal. The factory – which represents an investment of CAD$15m (£8.53m) – will all...

Article content Concerned about health and the environment, Morten Toft Bech launched Meatless Farm Co. in the U.K. in 2018 after two years in development. It made its retail debut in 2019 providing meatless products to Sainsbury’s supermarkets after raising $17 million, and last September was successful with another funding round of $31 million. Today it is the fastest growing plant-based, meat-alternative company in that country and, with a desire to be closer to the yellow peas from which it gets its protein, looked to Canada, which produced 4.2 million tonnes in 2019. We apologize, but ...