The amount of news coming out on vegan and in particular on cellular – or lab-grown – seafood this year is truly astonishing. Companies -- many of them startups funded by Silicon Valley investors -- are being launched, all with the goal to produce slaughter-free fish and seafood.

“It’s time to rethink seafood,” two-month old cellular aquaculture business BlueNalu writes on its website. The company joins others such as Finless Foods, which aims to have its lab-grown bluefin tuna on the market by the end of 2019, saying “we’re on a mission to transform the way fresh, sustainable seafood arrives on our tables.”