Believer Meats vs Mission Barns

Believer Meats (formerly Future Meat Technologies) was an Israeli-founded cultivated-meat company that built a large US plant in Wilson, North Carolina; it abruptly ceased operations in December 2025 despite an FDA clearance, leaving over $34 million in unpaid construction bills.

Mission Barns makes cultivated pork fat as an ingredient for hybrid meat products and in 2025 became the first company cleared by the USDA for cultivated fat.