The Good Food Institute (GFI) has just answered this question in a detailed post here, using GFI Europe—a priority region for urgent growth—to illustrate how we would use additional funding. Each marginal increase in funding for GFI has the potential to leverage much greater sums in R&D funding for alternative proteins.
As I explain in more detail over on the main post, GFI Europe would use marginal increases in funding on two main categories—additional staffing capacity, and research projects that respond to specific gaps and needs of stakeholders on the critical path for alternative protein adoption. Each additional role or research project meets an important, neglected and tractable need on the path to our overall mission to make alternative proteins the default choice. Therefore, every marginal increase in funding represents further advancement of plant-based and cultivated meat and reduced farmed animal suffering and mitigating climate change, pandemic risk, antibiotic resistance.
The next few years are likely to set the course for decades to come for alternative proteins in Europe. (For an interesting read about the stubbornness of policy changes see here)In such a neglected space, GFI Europe’s ability to track and respond adequately to existential hurdles for alternative proteins is crucial to their success.
The Good Food Institute (GFI) has just answered this question in a detailed post here, using GFI Europe—a priority region for urgent growth—to illustrate how we would use additional funding. Each marginal increase in funding for GFI has the potential to leverage much greater sums in R&D funding for alternative proteins.
As I explain in more detail over on the main post, GFI Europe would use marginal increases in funding on two main categories—additional staffing capacity, and research projects that respond to specific gaps and needs of stakeholders on the critical path for alternative protein adoption. Each additional role or research project meets an important, neglected and tractable need on the path to our overall mission to make alternative proteins the default choice. Therefore, every marginal increase in funding represents further advancement of plant-based and cultivated meat and reduced farmed animal suffering and mitigating climate change, pandemic risk, antibiotic resistance.
The next few years are likely to set the course for decades to come for alternative proteins in Europe. (For an interesting read about the stubbornness of policy changes see here) In such a neglected space, GFI Europe’s ability to track and respond adequately to existential hurdles for alternative proteins is crucial to their success.
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