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Meati lost the bathwater, but a remarkably well-priced baby has been saved providing food biotech's second life. Somewhere amid the collapse and attempted revival of US alternative-protein company Meati Foods, a valuable piece of the food-biotech future was left behind: twelve 25,000-litre fermentation tanks, their associated seed systems and a combined 300,000 litres of production capacity.

Fresh news shows US based, mycelium-based maker Meati Foods has had its property seized for nearly $7 million in unpaid taxes, illustrating just how severe the downturn has become in the proteins world. This follows the earlier winding down of Believer Meats and Meatable, both of which shuttered operations despite raising multi-millions because they couldn’t simultaneously crack cost, scale, and market adoption. In each case, promising technology met the harsh economics of f

Colorado based, Meati, a mushroom-root meats company, just 'ramped' this trend by raising an another $100million, driving home the viability