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Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research — Farm Animal Welfare Research (2020)

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  • Portfolio Area: Alternatives to Animal Products
  • Focus Area: Farm Animal Welfare
  • Category: Global Health & Wellbeing
  • Organization Name: Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research
  • Amount: $500,000

  • Award Date: April 2020

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    Grant investigator: Lewis Bollard

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    Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $500,000 to the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research to co-fund a request for proposals for research on optimizing plant protein for use in plant-based meat. The resulting research could eventually improve the quality and lower the costs of plant-based meat.

    This follows our December 2018 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare.

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