We are the only organisation dedicated to ensuring that Australia's cellular agriculture sector contributes to providing ethical, accessible and sustainable food for all.
We focus on tackling common challenges and opportunities facing the cellular agriculture sector in Australia.
We take an inclusive and participatory approach to our work by engaging with a broad range of stakeholders on key thematic areas. These areas include: navigating regulation, accessing and developing talent, and advocating to key stakeholders with common language and consistent messaging.
Cellular agriculture uses cells and innovative biotechnologies to produce accessible, ethical and sustainable agricultural products.
This method is most commonly used to make animal-derived foods and ingredients such as meat, seafood, dairy products, fats, egg whites and gelatin. It can also be used to produce non-animal-derived products such as human breast milk, coffee, chocolate and palm oil.
The global demand for food will increase by up to 70% by 2050. We cannot meet this demand sustainably or ethically with current production methods alone.
Cellular agriculture is one of many solutions required to ensure an ethical, accessible and sustainable food system into the future.
It has the potential to overcome six critical challenges facing our current agricultural system.
Its actual impact will depend on numerous decisions cellular agriculture companies will have to make as they move towards commercial scale.
663 million people globally are undernourished and around 697 million people (9% of the world population) are severely food insecure. We need to devise efficient methods of production, such as cellular agriculture, to boost food availability.
Animal agriculture alone uses 40% of the Earth’s land - the equivalent of North and South America combined. Globally, we are losing almost 5 million hectares of vegetation every year, and around 50% of that due to cattle grazing and animal feed crops.
If you take the physical biomass of all the mammals and birds on the planet, only 5% of that biomass comes from wild animals. The rest is made up of humans and domesticated animals.
The production of food is responsible for approximately 26% of global green house gas emissions. Animal agriculture and fisheries contributes to 31% of food emissions, or 14% of total emissions worldwide (behind energy and transport).
1 in 10 fall ill and 420,000 people die each year from food-borne illnesses, for example Salmonella. Cellular agriculture presents an opportunity to reduce this through the use of tightly controlled hygiene and manufacturing processes.
Globally, 20 billion land animals and potentially 100 billion fish are being intensively farmed at any point in time. Of all farmed land animals, 73% globally and 99% in the US, are in factory farms.
The sector is growing and presents a myriad of career opportunities across STEM and non-STEM fields.
Me& is seeking to appoint a number of Research Scientists reporting to the Scientific Director and co-founder, Dr Luis Malaver. These roles range from junior to senior scientists.
Nourish is growing rapidly and they are on the hunt for a solution focused Food Scientist to support their food science team.
Provide exceptional regulatory advice, guidance and strategy on product development, product improvement and product approval roadmaps.
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As Vow's Quality Control Technician, you will play a crucial role in the production and sale of safe food to the public.
Responsible for offering product expertise, application knowledge and technical support along each step of customer's process and for bringing the products' technical expertise and market knowledge to the sales team.
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We're always interested in hearing from world-class talent, even when we don’t have your perfect role listed on our careers page.
Responsible for managing and delivering infrastructure projects for research, development and commercial manufacturing of cultured meat.
This is an open invitation to engineers who want to get in on the ground floor of a leading company to take on a wide range of biological, technological and food development challenges.
Vow is looking for a creative and strategic thinker to join their future products team in Sydney. You’ll use human-centred-design principles to develop a pipeline of exciting innovative food products.
In this role, you will lead and manage the regulatory processes for Vow's cultured meat products.
As a Regulatory Safety Scientist at Vow you will play a crucial role in helping advance our products to achieving regulatory success in markets around the world.
Our People & Culture team is expanding and we’re looking for a part-time people-centric and motivated P&C Coordinator to join our rapidly growing team.
Nourish is on the hunt for an experienced Executive Assistant who can support three Executives (including the CEO) to ensure their schedules run smoothly.
Early bird tickets are still available for the 2023 CellAg Summit held in Sydney on 15 June.
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We are deeply humbled and grateful for each and every one of our growing community of supporters. We simply would not be where we are without you.
If you believe in the impact potential of cellular agriculture and the work we do in enabling this, make a tax deductible donation and help us reach our fundraising goal of AUD 150,000 by 30 June 2023.
