When was the last time you tasted something for the first time? By creating food the world has never seen before, Forged brings this feeling to every bite.
For our first product, we wanted to bring a flavour and texture combination together you couldn't get anywhere else; rich umami decadence and melt-in-your-mouth weightlessness. With cultured Japanese quail, we were able to craft this rare pairing.
Forged Parfait will soon be available in Singapore.
Assessing ideal cell combinations to create the best products is our strength. We explore where others don’t to find exciting flavours, textures and functions that meat-eaters love and bringing them together in uniquely delicious combinations. The results? A new category of food that is sustainable, abundant, and irresistible.
We're a diverse team of scientists, engineers, business leaders and foodies with one thing in common: a shared ambition to make the future of food with our meats. Right now.
Just 3.5 years since being founded, Vow has cut the ribbon at what it claims is the southern hemisphere’s largest cultured meat facility.
Established by George Peppou and Tim Noakesmith, Vow is Australia’s largest cultured meat company and is backed by investors including the NSW government, Blackbird, Square Peg, Grok and Tenacious Ventures.
Australian alternative protein company Vow has opened what it says is the largest cultivated meat facility in the southern hemisphere, in Alexandria in Sydney.
The Vow Factory 1 will produce “as much as 30 tonnes” of cultivated meat annually. (For reference, the average standard car weighs about 1.5 tons.)
The company says it has started development on Factory 2, which will be “100x larger” than Factory 1.
Vow plans to launch a yet-to-be-named cultivated meat product in Singapore by the end of the year.
Opening a factory producing food that cannot be legally consumed seems like a risky move. But that’s what George Peppou and Tim Noakesmith did last week,
cutting the ribbon on a multimillion-dollar facility to grow meat from animal cells.
That it was NSW Treasurer Matt Kean who cut the ribbon – and the NSW
government is an investor – gives cell-based meat start-up Vow confidence that the
legal hurdle can be cleared sooner rather than later
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George is the Founder & CEO of Vow. Vow is a collective of innovators, engineers, scientists, artists and foodies working to improve the quality of life for people, animals and planetary health, by reinventing food from the ground up.
If cellular agriculture gives us tools to create entirely new foods, then why are so many companies focused on recreating existing ones? It’s going to be hard to compete with and disrupt factory farming on factory farming’s terms. What if, instead, we play to our strengths and make the kind of products that only cellular agriculture can.
Welcome to the second coming of Vow! Today, we speak with George Peppou and Tim Noakesmith, co-founders of Vow, as well as Ellen Dinsmoor, Vow's Head of Operations, and Samantha Wong, a General Partner at Blackbird Ventures.
This team is revolutionising cuisine by tapping into the vast biosphere of potential foods that humanity has been unable to sustainably farm. Through synthetic biology, they lift this limitation and pave the way for a third agricultural revolution, one that is ethical, abundant, and importantly, irresistibly delicious.
Since our last episode with Vow, they have more than doubled in team size and have continued to crush the technical challenges before them with blistering speed.
We can’t keep living the way we do. So, let’s make it better. Future humans need 50% more food than we have now. If we’re going to fix this problem, let’s make it healthier, delicious, and available to everyone.
We know our planet can only support so much farming without resorting to destructive factory farming or destructive and irreparable habitat loss. It’s time we try something else to take the pressure off of our farmers and our planet to feed our rapidly growing appetites.
Sustainable, open range meat is good for our bodies, and we love that, but increasingly, humans are having to eat factory farmed meat full of growth hormones, additives and unnatural substitutes. Cultured meat presents a healthy, consistent partner to sustainable farming to help feed the growing appetite of our world for meat.