Imagine extraordinarily delicious, nutritious meat, affordable for everyone, with a lighter footprint on the planet and no slaughter. That’s the future cultivated meat is working toward: growing real meat directly from animal cells.

I’m Andrew, cofounder of Livestock Labs. We engineer the animal cell lines that cultivated meat producers use, with a focus on traits that could improve production efficiency and meat quality.

We lean into genetic engineering because we believe better cells can help make that future possible.

Today, we’re taking our Wefunder campaign public and launching a video series exploring what cultivated meat could unlock, the challenges ahead, and how our work fits in.

This is our launch video. We’re using a mix of real footage and AI-generated visuals, with new videos coming every few days.

Follow along, share with a friend, and let us know what you think. Whether you invest or simply help spread the word, we appreciate your support.

Join our campaign: https://livestocklabs.s.gy/a-rd-v01
Meet Livestock Labs: https://www.livestock-labs.com

Hi r/foodtech. Food recall data in the U.S. is public, but it's scattered. The FDA and USDA FSIS publish in different formats, and the product text is written for regulators, not shoppers. I built ReCall to fix that: https://recall-food.vercel.app

What people can do:

- Search FDA and USDA FSIS recalls in one place by product, brand, reason, or UPC, including scanning a barcode with the phone camera

- See severity in plain terms (Serious / Moderate / Low risk) next to the official Class I/II/III

- Watch a product, brand, or company and get new matching recalls flagged on the home page

How it's built, for anyone curious:

- Daily ingestion from openFDA and the USDA FSIS API, with every raw response archived to S3 before anything is changed

- SQS between ingestion and normalization, with each agency's format mapped into one shared recall model

- DynamoDB + FastAPI on AWS Lambda, all managed with Terraform

- Next.js frontend on Vercel

- A fun obstacle: USDA's firewall blocks automated requests, so USDA data is imported by hand for now

Where I'm unsure what to build next:

1. Email alerts for watched products and allergens. There's a signup on the site to gauge interest.

2. Retailer or grocery-list integrations, so people find out about recalls on things they actually bought

3. Better parsing of messy lot codes and UPCs from agency text

If you work in food tech, I'd love to know which of these matters most, or what I'm missing. It's a free personal project, not affiliated with the FDA or USDA.

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