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Cultivating Success – Takeaways from Evolved Meats

By CFIN Newsdesk posted 05-23-2023 08:00

  

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(L-R) Alireza Shahin and John Cappuccitti, co-founders of Evolved Meats. 


Last week CFIN released its latest member virtual experience, Cultivating Success: Canada's Big Biomanufacturing Opportunity. The event was hosted by cellular food experts Dr. Lenore Newman of the Food and Agriculture Institute at the University of the Fraser Valley in BC, and Dr. Evan Fraser of the Arrell Food Institute at the University of Guelph in Ontario. The event featured many examples of Canadian cellular food companies, including Evolved Meats, a cultivated meat company based in Kitchener, ON. 

 

Here’s Evolved Meats co-founder John Cappuccitti talking about what it was like participating in the experience. 

 

Q: Tell us a bit about your company and what you do. 

 

Cappuccitti: We are a cultivated meat company that creates whole cuts of meat that are both structurally and biochemically identical to conventional meat. 

 

Q: Why do you think it’s important to explain what the cellular food industry is and to showcase Canadian companies in this space? 

 

Cappuccitti: It is important for two reasons: consumers need to get educated on the safety of these products; and Canada has an opportunity to be at the forefront of a major technological wave. 

 

Q: How do you see the cellular food sector progressing in the short and long term? 

 

Cappuccitti: Over the short term we expect very little market penetration by cellular foods. There is still a lot of work that needs to be done to scale the industry. Over the longer term, we believe that cellular agriculture could start to displace a significant amount of protein consumption globally. 

 

Q: Anything else you’d like to add? 

 

Cappuccitti: Thank you for having us involved! 

  

To connect with Evolved Meats, reach out to your Regional Innovation Director. 

 

In case you missed it, here's Cultivating Success: Canada's Big Biomanufacturing Opportunity.



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