Draft:Ryan Huling (writer)

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| name = Ryan Huling

| image = File:Ryan Huling in 2024.jpg

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1984|3|30}}Huling, Ryan. (n.d.). [https://www.facebook.com/ryan.huling/about_contact_and_basic_info "About, contact, and basic info"] [Facebook profile section]. Facebook. Retrieved June 20, 2025.

| occupation = Writer and activist

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Ryan Huling (born March 30, 1984) is an American writer and media commentator focused on sustainable food systems, animal rights, and international exploration. He has authored opinion columns for Nature,Huling, R., Lee, D., Nutakul, W., & Goh, S. (2024, September 23). [https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-03077-y "In Asia, alternative proteins are the new clean energy"]. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-03077-y. Wired,Huling, Ryan (2020, January 21). [https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-maps-are-biased-against-animals/ "Maps are biased against animals"]. Wired. Retrieved June 20, 2025. USA Today,Huling, Ryan (2020, January 28). [https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/01/28/air-pollution-quality-animal-cruelty-column/4589293002/ "Air pollution is animal cruelty"]. USA Today. Retrieved June 20, 2025. Trends in Cell Biology,Ravikumar, Maanasa, Dean Powell, and Ryan Huling. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tcb.2024.04.005 "Cultivated Meat: Research Opportunities to Advance Cell Line Development"]. Trends in Cell Biology 34, no. 7 (July 1, 2024): 523–26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tcb.2024.04.005. the South China Morning Post,Huling, Ryan. (2021, June 23). [https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3138312/avert-climate-crisis-governments-need-reinvent-meat "To avert a climate crisis, governments need to reinvent meat"]. South China Morning Post. Retrieved June 20, 2025. The Nikkei,Huling, Ryan. (2022, October 27). [https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOCD051BU0V01C22A0000000/ "シーフードも培養の時代へ ライア"]. Nikkei. Retrieved June 20, 2025. and Nikkei Asia,Huling, Ryan. (2023, August 15). [https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Asia-will-not-get-to-net-zero-without-changing-its-diet "Asia will not get to net‑zero without changing its diet"]. Nikkei Asia. Retrieved June 20, 2025. and been interviewed by NBC News,NBC News. (2011, June 5). [https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna44330923 "In land of meat, Texas university touts vegan"]. NBC News. Retrieved June 20, 2025. Fox News,Fox News Network. (2013, May 1). [https://www.foxnews.com/video/1982152572001 "PETA protesting President Obama's Thanksgiving turkey pardon"] [Video]. Fox News. Retrieved June 20, 2025.Kennedy, Douglas. (2010, March 19). [https://web.archive.org/web/20100322221008/http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/03/19/the-right-to-hunt/?test=latestnews "The right to hunt"] [Blog post]. LiveShots (Fox News). Retrieved June 20, 2025. and Reuters.Wiley, Judy. (2012, March 19). [https://www.reuters.com/article/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/university-bucks-convention-in-texas-with-vegan-dining-hall-idUSTRE77U52R/ "University bucks convention in Texas with vegan dining hall"]. Reuters. Retrieved June 20, 2025.

Career

Huling is currently a senior writer for the Asia-Pacific office of The Good Food Institute,Huling, Ryan. (n.d.). [https://gfi-apac.org/team/ryan-huling/ "Ryan Huling"] [Profile]. Good Food Institute Asia Pacific. Retrieved June 20, 2025. a think tank that accelerates development of plant-based and cultivated meat. He worked to align dozens of regional cellular agriculture companies behind the nomenclature "cultivated" to describe foods grown directly from animal cells,Huling, Ryan. (n.d.). [https://gfi-apac.org/industry/aligning-cultivated-food-nomenclature-across-apac/ "Aligning cultivated food nomenclature across APAC"]. Good Food Institute Asia Pacific. Retrieved June 22, 2025. which according to Food Ingredients First, has since become the consensus terminology.Ferrer, Benjamin. (2022, October 31). [https://www.foodingredientsfirst.com/news/harmonizing-cell-based-labels-alt-protein-pioneers-come-to-consensus-on-cultivated-terminology.html "Harmonizing cell-based labels: Alt‑protein pioneers come to consensus on 'cultivated' terminology"]. Food Ingredients First. Retrieved June 22, 2025. Prior to joining GFI, he served as an international expert on nutrition and sustainable food systems for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsHuling, Ryan. (2020, December 11). [https://e.vnexpress.net/news/perspectives/vietnam-could-grow-key-ingredients-for-plant-based-meat-4204723.html "Vietnam could grow key ingredients for plant–based meat"]. VnExpress International. Retrieved June 20, 2025. and a director at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. (2016, October 4). [https://www.peta.org/media/news-releases/popularity-vegan-food-doubles-college-campuses/ "Popularity of vegan food more than doubles on college campuses"] [Press release]. PETA. Retrieved June 20, 2025.

Huling's writing has been cited by think tanks focused on food and climate changeClimate Advisers. (2022, April). [https://www.climateadvisers.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Climate-Advisers-Benefits-to-the-United-States-of-Sustainable-Protein-Innovation-2022.pdf "Benefits to the United States of Sustainable Protein Innovation"]. Climate Advisers. Retrieved June 21, 2025.ClimateWorks Foundation. (n.d.). [https://www.climateworks.org/programs/food-agriculture/ "Food & agriculture"]. ClimateWorks Foundation. Retrieved June 21, 2025. and academic journals such as Science of Food and Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence.Li, Y. P., Ahmadi, F., Kariman, K., & Lackner, M. (2024, September 18). [https://doi.org/10.1038/s41538‑024‑00299‑2 "Recent advances and challenges in single‑cell protein (SCP) technologies for food and feed production"]. npj Science of Food, 8, Article 66. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41538‑024‑00299‑2.Todhunter, M. E., Jubair, S., Verma, R., Saqe, R., Shen, K., & Duffy, B. (2024). [https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2024.1424012 "Artificial intelligence and machine learning applications for cultured meat"]. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 7, Article 1424012. https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2024.1424012. In 2026, Avery, an imprint of Penguin Group, is scheduled to publish his nonfiction travelogue, The Hidden Nations of Animals, which was developed in collaboration with cartographer Oliver Uberti.英國安德魯納伯格聯合國際有限公司(台灣代表處). (2024, December 10). [http://nurnberg.com.tw/index1-2.php?bookno=03-14407 "The Hidden Nations of Animals"] [Book listing]. Retrieved June 21, 2025.

Personal life

In addition to his food and animal advocacy work, BuzzFeed notes that Huling is an "avid" traveler.Byrne, Christine. (2015, August 21). [https://www.buzzfeed.com/christinebyrne/vegan-wanderlust "Here Is A Blog With Photos Of Vegan Food From Literally Every Single Country In The World"]. BuzzFeed. Retrieved June 20, 2025. As of June 2025, he says that he has visited more than 50 countries and all 50 US states.Huling, Ryan. (n.d.). [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanchuling/ "Ryan Huling"] [LinkedIn profile]. LinkedIn. Retrieved June 20, 2025.

Selected publications

  • In Asia, alternative proteins are the new clean energy{{Cite journal|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03077-y|title=In Asia, alternative proteins are the new clean energy|first1=Ryan|last1=Huling|first2=Doris|last2=Lee|first3=Wasamon|last3=Nutakul|first4=Samuel|last4=Goh|date=September 22, 2024|journal=Nature|volume=633|issue=8031|pages=767–769|via=www.nature.com|doi=10.1038/d41586-024-03077-y|pmid=39313539 |bibcode=2024Natur.633..767H }} (with Doris Lee, Wasamon Nutakul, Samuel Goh, 2024)
  • Cultivated meat: research opportunities to advance cell line development{{Cite journal|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0962892424000928|title=Cultivated meat: research opportunities to advance cell line development|first1=Maanasa|last1=Ravikumar|first2=Dean|last2=Powell|first3=Ryan|last3=Huling|date=July 1, 2024|journal=Trends in Cell Biology|volume=34|issue=7|pages=523–526|via=ScienceDirect|doi=10.1016/j.tcb.2024.04.005|pmid=38763845 }} (with Maanasa Ravikumar, Dean Powell, 2024)
  • Applications of Fungi for Alternative Protein{{Cite book|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8853-0_13|title=Fungi and Fungal Products in Human Welfare and Biotechnology|first=Ryan|last=Huling|editor-first1=Tulasi|editor-last1=Satyanarayana|editor-first2=Sunil Kumar|editor-last2=Deshmukh|date=June 22, 2023|publisher=Springer Nature|pages=365–395|via=Springer Link|doi=10.1007/978-981-19-8853-0_13}} (2023)

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