SF Chronicle — Articles — Larissa Zimberoff

California just invested millions in lab-grown meat, becoming the first state to back the unproven industry

Before voting to adopt California’s $308 billion state budget last month, Assembly Member Ash Kalra, a Democrat from San Jose, took a tour of Upside Foods, a food technology startup in Emeryville.

This Bay Area company seeks to become the world’s largest grower of cultured meat at 30 million pounds per year

One of the Bay Area’s leading food-tech companies just inked a deal to manufacture the world’s largest known bioreactors for growing meat from cells. Ten of them.

Plant-based bacon is challenging to pull off. But the version from Berkeley’s Umaro Foods is wooing investors and chefs.