The COVID-19 global pandemic fundamentally changed the dining out experience for consumers, closing dining rooms and forcing restaurants to innovate to survive.

Maple Leaf Foods and its wholly owned subsidiary, Greenleaf Foods, have announced plans to acquire and build-out a food processing plant in Indianapolis, Indiana. The location will be used to expand the company’s tempeh production and plant protein capacity.

Aleph Farms is collaborating with Mitsubishi Corporation’s Food Industry Group in the push to sell cultivated beef in Japan.

Novel processing technology could extend the shelf-life and improve the quality of eggs, as well as eliminate or reduce the possible contamination of the egg through a lower-temperature pasteurization approach using radio frequency energy.

Lab-grown meat sounds like something out of science fiction, but advocates say the process is more efficient than traditional agriculture.