The financial abyss facing alternative proteins continues to plague the cultivated meat sector.Berlin-based startup Cultimate Foods, which produces a cell-cultured fat to enhance the flavour of cultivated meat products, last month filed for bankruptcy and appointed administrators to examine the future of the business.

While the Trump administration has been lobbying the EU to weaken its deforestation regulation, a group of legislators in the US Congress has proposed a bill that would create the country’s own zero-deforestation law.