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The USD 55.5 Million Retrofit: Why Biomanufacturing Infrastructure Decides Who Wins the Next Food Decade

Tony HunterOctober 13, 2026October 19, 2026

by Tony HunterOctober 13, 2026October 19, 20260121

Read time: 6 minutes Highlights The next food manufacturing race will be won by infrastructure, not laboratory headlines. Retrofit beats rebuild: ADM’s USD 55.5 million...

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Why Precision Fermentation’s Next Breakthrough Isn’t Protein

Tony HunterAugust 25, 2026August 28, 2026

by Tony HunterAugust 25, 2026August 28, 20260204

Read time: 5 minutes Highlights Precision fermentation is moving from replacing ingredients to rebuilding how food performs. Fats may deliver the next major commercial breakthrough:...

Alternative Proteins Futurism & Innovation Microbiome/Genomics

Project Hyperion & cutting edge FoodTech

Tony HunterAugust 22, 2025

by Tony HunterAugust 22, 20250441

250 year multigenerational spaceship to another planet! The Project Hyperion competition brief by The Initiative for Interstellar Studies (i4is) for the 250 year interstellar journey...

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VC Investment in alternative proteins

Tony HunterJanuary 14, 2025January 16, 2025

by Tony HunterJanuary 14, 2025January 16, 20250494

Recently Steve Molino commented on LinkedIn on VC investment in alternative proteins. A few thoughts on the data: 1 Cultivated Meat – With the culture...

Alternative Proteins My take on it all

The Commercialisation of Synthetic Biology

Tony HunterDecember 15, 2024January 10, 2025

by Tony HunterDecember 15, 2024January 10, 20250386

“Synbio will eat the world, and the world will eat synbio.” The commercialisation of Synthetic Biology is accelerating and revealing it’s full impact on the...

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Biotech dairy waste reduction

Tony HunterJanuary 3, 2024January 19, 2024

by Tony HunterJanuary 3, 2024January 19, 20240663

Upcycling of dairy products like whey and casein is traditionally expensive and energy intensive. This often results in potentially valuable products going to waste. Foremost Farms...

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Alternative protein infrastructure is the key

Tony HunterAugust 5, 2023June 8, 2024

by Tony HunterAugust 5, 2023June 8, 20240761

Busting the infrastructure barrier! As I’ve written before, alternative protein infrastructure, not technology, is now the biggest barrier to the adoption of alternative proteins and...

Alternative Proteins Synthetic Biology

Honey truffles as a sweetener

Tony HunterJuly 21, 2023August 12, 2023

by Tony HunterJuly 21, 2023August 12, 20230958

Colorado based company MycoTechnology, Inc. has isolated a new protein sweetener from Honey Truffles. They say that “While it has the same calories as other proteins, it...

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Technology transparency is key

Tony HunterJune 8, 2023June 9, 2023

by Tony HunterJune 8, 2023June 9, 20230661

Technology transparency is key to consumer acceptance of gene manipulation being used to make their food. The key phrase in a recent article and the...

Alternative Proteins Synthetic Biology

Are hybrids the future of food?

Tony HunterMay 9, 2023June 9, 2023

by Tony HunterMay 9, 2023June 9, 20230771

Are hybrids the future of food? Will hybrid plantbased/”non-animal, animal products” be common on our future supermarket shelves? With precision fermentation products being considered vegan...

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The USD 55.5 Million Retrofit: Why Biomanufacturing Infrastructure Decides Who Wins the Next Food Decade

Why Precision Fermentation’s Next Breakthrough Isn’t Protein

Project Hyperion & cutting edge FoodTech

VC Investment in alternative proteins

The Commercialisation of Synthetic Biology

Biotech dairy waste reduction

Alternative protein infrastructure is the key

Honey truffles as a sweetener

Technology transparency is key

Are hybrids the future of food?

Food Futurist Speaker Tony Hunter at FPP x CMS Amsterdam

Food Futurist Speaker Tony Hunter at the London Chocolate Forum

5 Technologies That Will Dominate the Future of Food for Decades – Where are we in 2026?

Tony contributing food futurist author

The Salad Panel: Why Perovskite Solar Panels Matter for the Future of Food

AI-Guided Crop Editing: How Tomatoes and Strawberries Got Future-Proofed

The Nose Knows First: Why AI Sensory Mapping Will Decide Whether Alternative Proteins Ever Taste Right

Solo Meals: Why the Table for One Is the Food Industry’s Next Growth Market

The USD 55.5 Million Retrofit: Why Biomanufacturing Infrastructure Decides Who Wins the Next Food Decade

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