Cultivated meat company Upside Foods (formerly Memphis Meats) has acquired Cultured Decadence, a Madison, Wis.-based cellular agriculture company. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 2020 by John Pattison and Ian Johnson, two veterans of the lab-grown meat industry, Cultured Decadence uses cell culture and tissue engineering to create seafood, specifically shellfish products, from animal cells. It has developed proprietary cell lines and cell feed for a variety of products, including lobster and other crustaceans.
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