
The Impossible Burger 2.0, a plant-based vegan burger that tastes like real beef. Copyright © Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images
Plant-based ‘meat’ and ‘lab-grown’ meat may help to tackle the unsustainability of the livestock sector. Focusing on the EU, this paper explores the challenges of scaling up production and generating demand for such meat analogues.
Special thanks go to Isadora Fernandes Ferreira (Energy, Environment and Resources Department, Chatham House) and Anne-Marie Benoy (Hoffman Centre for Sustainable Resource Economy, Chatham House) for their invaluable research and input into the project.
Thanks also go to Rob Bailey (formerly Chatham House), Professor Tim Benton (University of Leeds and Chatham House), Benjamina Bollag (Higher Steaks), Alexandra Clark (Humane Society International/Europe), Illtud Dunsford (Cellular Agriculture Ltd), Olga Kikou (Compassion in World Farming), Katia Merten-Lentz (Keller and Heckman LLP) and Alexandra Sexton (University of Oxford) and two anonymous reviewers for their review and reflections on the research.
We are very grateful for the insights of those who participated in our ‘Meat Analogues: What do they Mean for the EU?’ workshop held in London on 12 September 2018. Special thanks go to Professor Allan Buckwell (Institute for European Environmental Policy), Nicolas Carbonnelle (Bird & Bird), Sarah Castell (Ipsos MORI), Dr Marianne Ellis (University of Bath), Helen Harwatt (Harvard Law School), Abigail Herron (Aviva Investors), Niccolo Manzoni (Five Seasons Ventures), Peter Verstrate (MosaMeat) and to the reviewers listed above for their interventions during the workshop.
We are grateful to our editors Mike Tsang, Vera Chapman Brown and Jo Maher for their enthusiastic and meticulous editing of the report and for all of their feedback, support and patience throughout the process.
Thanks also go to Nick Capeling, Stuart Coles, Jordan Lim, Nina Black, Thomas Farrar, Gitika Bhardwaj, Jessica Pow and Jason Naselli for their help with the launch; and to Autumn Forecast at Soapbox for her work on the design and production of the report.
A number of members of the Chatham House Energy, Environment and Resources Department – both staff and interns – provided research and administrative support throughout the process. Sincere thanks go to Sean Alexander, Sofia Palazzo Corner, Caitlin Mackridge, Neal Millar and Ruth Quinn.
Finally, thanks go to Compassion in World Farming and Humane Society International for their generous support of this research.