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The nascent cultivated-meat industry is in a funding drought. For those who don’t know, cultivated meat is grown from livestock cells, without slaughter. It offers a number of animal welfare, public health and environmental benefits. Given this drought, I was thrilled to see some private investment in an American facility researching cellular agriculture, while remaining aware significant public funding is necessary to unlock cultivated meat’s full potential.

GEA, a German company, opened its New Food Application and Technology Center in Janesville, Wisconsin on July 17. Among other things, the $20-million facility includes pilot-scale infrastructure for cell cultivation, precision fermentation and plant-based food processing. It expands on an existing GEA campus at the same location. The facility will actually be the company’s second such center. The first was opened in Hildesheim, Germany a couple of years........

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