The Chinese government's official focus on protein food-tech could dismantle the barriers to scaling cultivated meat production to industrial scale.
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China’s regularly updated five-year plans are closely watched, and parsed, documents, seen as a finger on the country’s economic and social pulse and an indicator of future investments. So when the 14th five-year agricultural plan, covering 2021 to 2025, made “future foods” a specific item, the international alt-meat industry took note.
In particular, an article in Time magazine noted that official Chinese state…