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UC Berkeley — Alternative Meats Lab (January 2019)

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  • Portfolio Area: Alternatives to Animal Products
  • Focus Area: Farm Animal Welfare
  • Category: Global Health & Wellbeing
  • Organization Name: UC Berkeley
  • Amount: $131,579

  • Award Date: January 2019

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    Joshua Nixon and Kimberlie Le serve a fungi-based salmon replacement product to Christie Lagally from the Good Food Institute. (Photo courtesy of the Alternative Meats Lab)

    Grant investigator: Lewis Bollard

    This page was reviewed but not written by the grant investigator. UC Berkeley staff also reviewed this page prior to publication.

    The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $131,579 to UC Berkeley to support the Alternative Meats Lab, housed at The Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology. The lab is the outgrowth of a class on developing animal product alternatives. This grant may help spur new startups developing alternatives to animal products, and could help build the talent pipeline for existing startups working in this space.

    This is a discretionary grant and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare.

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