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.

In Response to Covid-19, the U.S. Should Invest in Alternative Protein Research

Covid-19 has demonstrated that our current meat production system is vulnerable. Public investment in alternative proteins can help us create a more safe, efficient, and resilient protein supply.

New GFI State of the Industry Reports Show Alternative Proteins Are Poised to Flourish Post-Covid-19

Our latest Plant-Based and Cultivated Meat State of the Industry Reports show that, even with the vast economic and public health challenges Covid-19 presents, there are reasons to remain optimistic about the future of sustainable protein production.

GFI’s Sustainable Seafood Initiative Awards New Grant for Atlantic Salmon Cell Lines

Cultivated meat is poised to make our food system more sustainable, ethical, and delicious, but cell lines are a critical unmet need. That’s why GFI is funding research by Kyle Fish of Tufts University to isolate lines from Atlantic salmon. The cells will be available to researchers and companies via Kerafast.

Meet Dr. Liz Specht, GFI's Associate Director of Science and Technology Team

A Q&A with The Good Food Institute's Associate Director of Science and Technology about her past, her future, and the future of science in food.

Introducing a Collaborative Database of Cultivated Meat Research Tools and Protocols

GFI’s Cultivated Meat Research Tool Directory crowdsources resources to help researchers find the information they need to carry out cultivated meat research and development.

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.”

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