17 Ways 2017 Rocked Meat, Dairy & Eggs

Janay Laing
The Sustainability X® Magazine
3 min readDec 12, 2016
Memphis Meats is making meat from cells instead of animals. Memphis Meats

Today, most meat, milk and eggs come from huge, destructive and inhumane farms. But this group of fearless and ingenious innovators changed all that in 2017 and made animal products more healthy, sustainable and humane. Let’s go!

1. Memphis Meats’ “First Bite” campaign will introduce cell-cultured meat to the masses

Memphis Meats

2. More gloriously bloody, plant-based Impossible Burgers are coming

Miranda Bryant/Impossible Foods/Vice Munchies

3. A plant-based burger is now in Whole Foods’ meat department

Beyond Meat

4. The beefy Range-Free Burger is launching in restaurants around the country

Hungry Planet

5. The animal-free Herbivorous Butcher, Butcher’s Son, The Very Good Butchers and more are changing the butchery game

The Herbivorous Butcher/The Butcher’s Son/The Very Good Butchers

6. Plant-based BBQ and deli shops are coming to Brooklyn and Miami

Monk’s Meats/Atlas Meat-Free Deli

7. The Herbivorous Butcher’s plant meats will get a test ride as future food for missions to Mars

8. With “Butcherless” catering, Brits are getting new bacon

Sgaia Foods

9. Plant-based chicken has been selling out in London

Temple of Hackney

10. In Canada, a vegan Big Mac is just as popular

Globally Local

11. On the seafood side, New Wave Foods is making better shrimp from plants

12. Tomato Sushi? Hotter than wasabi.

Tomato Sushi

13. It’s official: A new generation of meat innovators has arrived!

New Harvest

14. Perfect Day Foods is launching the first real milk without cows

Perfect Day Foods

15. Better cold-brew lattes are coming your way thanks to Willow Cup

Willow Cup

16. The Not Company is making plant-based mayo with artificial intelligence

The Notco

17. Tyson, the world’s biggest meat processor, just bought stock in plant meats and opened a fund for exploring new proteins.

Here’s to a year of innovation, and making meat, dairy and eggs better!

Originally published at www.newomnivore.com

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Janay Laing
The Sustainability X® Magazine

Janay Laing is the founder of The New Omnivore — an organization that promotes making meat, dairy and eggs with plants or biotechnology.