Providing Strategic Support to Companies

We work with both start-up and established companies to ensure marketplace success for products that are disrupting the current system.

Fostering the Next Generation of Innovators

We connect food scientists, students, culinary experts, and entrepreneurs with opportunities in the academic and nonprofit sectors.

Educating Institutions

We educate grant-making institutions, corporations, and governmental bodies about plant-based and clean meat R&D as a critical component of endeavors related to sustainability, climate change, and global health.

Promoting Plant-Based Products

We work with restaurants, grocery stores, and foodservice companies to increase availability of the best plant-based options on menus, in grocery stores, and in cafeterias.

Bringing Great Minds Together

GFI's annual Good Food Conference brings together the scientists, entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, and companies working in plant-based meat, clean meat, and supporting technologies. If you want to be part of the plant-based and clean meat future, this event is for you!

“We were in touch with GFI from day one for scientific, for technical, for the ecosystem, all of it. We love your blog, we love your papers and everything that you guys do.”

Sandhya Sriram
CEO & Co-founder of Shiok Meats

“Remaking meat is one sector of the food industry that is ripe for innovation and growth.”

Bill Gates
Founder of Microsoft

“I believe that in 30 years or so we will no longer need to kill any animals and that all meat will either be clean or plant-based, taste the same, and also be much healthier for everyone.”

Richard Branson
Founder of Virgin Group

Latest From the GFI Blog

Watch Bruce Friedrich’s TED Talk on Plant-Based and Cell-Based Meat

GFI Executive Director Bruce Friedrich explains how new forms of meat production can help address some of the greatest global challenges of our time.

Meat-Aisle Merchandising Catapults Plant-Based Meat Sales

The protein department of the future is a world of opportunity. New evidence from The Kroger Co. and Heinen’s bolsters the case for shelving plant-based meat products in the meat aisle.

GFI Brazil Partners with Federal University of Paraná to Create First Cultivated Meat Course

GFI Brazil partnered with Federal University of Parana to offer a postgraduate course focusing on cultivated meat—a key step to building a pipeline of skilled professionals for the alternative protein sector both in Brazil and abroad.

U.S. Plant-Based Meat Sales Growth Accelerates Despite Covid-19

U.S. sales data shows that plant-based meat sales have remained strong amid Covid-19, outperforming both its prior-year growth as well as animal-based meat’s growth rates.

Introducing PISCES, a New Data Navigation Tool to Inform Alternative Seafood Development

There’s a lot of research on the cellular and molecular components needed to match conventional seafood’s taste, texture, and aroma. We’ve put together a resource to help alternative seafood researchers and companies navigate it.

Cultivated Meat Could Transform Our Food System. Let’s Use Images That Do It Justice

Cultivated meat needs fewer bad stock photos and more images of real, delicious products. We put together a guide for journalists and cultivated meat startups who would like to help make that happen.

Imagine a food system where the most affordable and delicious products are also good for our bodies and the planet.

Here's how we do it.

“We were in touch with GFI from day one for scientific, for technical, for the ecosystem, all of it. We love your blog, we love your papers and everything that you guys do.”

“Remaking meat is one sector of the food industry that is ripe for innovation and growth.”

“I believe that in 30 years or so we will no longer need to kill any animals and that all meat will either be clean or plant-based, taste the same, and also be much healthier for everyone.”

Latest From the GFI Blog

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