Vegan BioTech Report – Edition 26 Jul 2025

This week brought the long-awaited collision of high fashion and fungal innovation, while Asia opened its doors to air-made protein. From Michelin starred bags to meat without slaughter and coatings spun from silk, plant-powered science sprinted toward mass-market reality.

Top Stories This Week

• Solar Foods (Impact: 9) – 05 Jun 2025 – Singapore has become the first Asian nation to clear Solein, a protein produced straight from carbon dioxide and renewable energy, for human consumption. Link
• MycoWorks (Impact: 9) – 28 Jun 2025 – This autumn Hermès will take mycelium mainstream, unveiling its luxury Sylvania handbag crafted from Reishi mushrooms in flagship stores worldwide. Link
• Omeat (Impact: 8) – 10 Jul 2025 – The USDA has signed off on Omeat’s label for a slaughter-free, FBS-free cultivated beef that can now be blended into ground-meat products in U.S. supermarkets. Link
• VitroLabs (Impact: 8) – 18 Jun 2025 – VitroLabs has shifted its cultured-leather pilot from demonstration to tens-of-thousands-of-square-feet scale, moving animal-free hides closer to commercial production. Link
• Every Company (Impact: 8) – 30 Apr 2025 – Sysco—the nation’s largest food-service distributor—just added Every Company’s precision-fermented egg whites to its catalogue, reaching up to 700,000 restaurants and cafeterias. Link
• Mori (Impact: 7) – 20 May 2025 – Mori’s silk-protein edible coating has earned FDA GRAS status, giving grocers a plastic-free, shelf-life-extending finish for fresh produce. Link
• Suminter India & Perfect Day (Impact: 7) – 01 May 2025 – India’s top organic dairy distributor Suminter is rolling out Perfect Day’s precision-fermentation milk nationwide, making animal-free dairy ubiquitous across the subcontinent. Link
• Bucha Leather (Impact: 7) – 03 Jul 2025 – BMW is now pilot-testing automotive seat swatches made from kombucha-fermented tea leather, achieving durability benchmarks for mass-vehicle interiors. Link

With regulators on three continents blessing next-gen proteins, luxury icons swapping skins for fungi, and distributors the size of nations onboarding animal-free foods, scale is no longer tomorrow’s promise—it’s this season’s runway and shelf. Watch for the first restaurant menus featuring Solar Foods’ air-borne Solein and BMW’s kombucha-clad concept seats as proof that biology just out-engineered yesterday’s livestock.