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.

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.

How Plant-Based Companies Can Adapt Their Foodservice Strategies Amid Covid-19

Covid-19 has disrupted most foodservice operations. But strong pre-pandemic plant-based growth numbers still carry lessons for companies supplying plant-based foods to restaurants.

White House Calls for Investment in U.S. Seafood. It Should Add Alternatives to the Mix

Public investment in alternative seafood has the potential to make America a leader in seafood production with vast positive impacts for the economy, workers, human health, and ocean sustainability.

Why the U.S. Should Prioritize Alternative Protein Research

Alternative proteins can enhance food security. But, to integrate them into our food supply, we need public investment in alternative protein research and development.

New GFI Report Shows Which U.S. Retailers Are Winning With Their Plant-Based Strategies

GFI’s new Good Food Retail Report shows that the United States’ largest grocery chains are adapting their plant-based food strategies to capitalize on growing consumer demand.

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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