2026 State of the Industry: Cultivated meat, seafood, and ingredients

2026 State of the Industry: Cultivated meat, seafood, and ingredients

Explore the latest insights on the cultivated meat sector in our State of the Industry webinar series—our annual deep dive into the evolving alternative protein landscape. This presentation unpacks the global cultivated meat ecosystem, including investment activity, scientific progress, and regulatory developments shaping the field today. It also examines how the sector is advancing toward price, taste, and scalability benchmarks needed to compete with conventional meat. Download the full State of the Industry reports: https://bit.ly/4sIxEKQ Stay up to date with the latest developments by signing up for GFI’s newsletters: https://gfi.org/newsletters/ [0:00] Intro [1:45] Commercial landscape [5:38] Investments [12:09] Consumer insights [19:14] Science & technology [27:39] Government & regulation [36:45] Summary About GFI: The Good Food Institute is a nonprofit think tank working to make the global food system better for the planet, people, and animals. Alongside scientists, businesses, and policymakers, GFI’s teams focus on making plant-based, fermentation-enabled, and cultivated meat delicious, affordable, and accessible. Powered by philanthropy, GFI is an international network of organizations—working across Asia Pacific, Brazil, Europe, India, Israel, and the United States—advancing alternative proteins as an essential solution needed to meet the world’s climate, global health, food security, and biodiversity goals.