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Consumer · Climate · Ecommerce
Prime Roots bets the future of meat on the deli counter
Its founders made a salmon burger. Their customers wanted bacon. Now Prime Roots is growing fungi into deli meats - and betting that a familiar sandwich can sell an unfamiliar ingredient.
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Founder · Operator · Executive
Thomas Jonas Left Plastics for a Fungus That Could Feed Space
A beach encounter led a former packaging executive to a Yellowstone microbe, an old Chicago stockyard and a larger question: how much food can we make with much less?
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Climate · Consumer · Health
The Yellowstone Microbe That Wants Your Breakfast Table
A geomicrobiologist scooped a strange fungus out of a Yellowstone hot spring. A decade and half a billion dollars later, it is being sold as cream cheese, yogurt and breakfast patties.
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