THE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE

Lobbying for THE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE

Filing 2nd Quarter - Report

Reporting period

2nd Quarter 2026

Apr 1 - June 30 · Posted Jul 20, 2026

Expenses

$60,000.00

What this organization spent lobbying with its own staff. Reported using A: the three LDA methods count different costs, so an expenses figure is not comparable across filers that used different ones.

Client based in

Virginia

Official filing document

Government bodies contacted 5

Agriculture, Dept of (USDA)
Defense, Dept of (DOD)
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Natl Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST)
SENATE

The chambers, agencies and offices the filer named. It does not say who inside them was contacted, or when.

Lobbying activity 3

Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)

Funding for plant-based, cultivated, and fermentation-enabled proteins through the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative; FAIR Labels Act of 2026; FDA Review and Evaluation for Safe, Healthy, and Affordable Foods Act; federal legislative proposals related to reforming FDAs Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) program; issues impacting plant-based, cultivated, and fermentation-enabled foods in the 2026 Farm Bill; legislative proposals related to using innovative protein technology to support lactoferrin production.

Budget/Appropriations

Appropriations to support commercialization of the plant-based, cultivated, and fermentation-enabled industries through the National Defense Authorization Act and the Farm Bill; FY27 appropriations to build out a federal biotech data repository.

Science/Technology

The House BIOTech Caucus and driving bio-innovation through innovative proteins; federal biotech policies related to cultivated, plant-based, and fermentation-enabled protein technologies, including allocating funding through the Distributed Bioindustrial Manufacturing Program and the Biobased Manufacturing Assistance Program; establishment of a federal biotech data repository.

Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filing, reproduced as filed. Bills are parsed from the activity descriptions.