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Glover Park Group has signed on as DC representative for Memphis Meats, the Berkeley-based company involved in producing "clean" meats made from animal cells in a lab.
CEO Uma Valeti, a cardiologist by training, expects to begin marketing his company's meat harvested from cells by 2021.
The company's environmentally friendly production process requires less land, water, energy and food inputs (e.g., livestock consume eight percent of the world's harvested grain) than traditional farming methods.
The clean meat process has the potential of eliminating 15 percent of greenhouse gas emissions that are produced by animals raised for meat.
Launched in 2015, Memphis Meats produced the world's first clean meatball in 2016 and chicken strip in 2017.
It has attracted investments from Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Cargill and Tyson Foods.
Glover Park Group handles lobbying related to the appropriations and farm bills, along with general agricultural issues.
Joel Leftwich, former majority staff director on the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry and aide to Republican Senator Pat Roberts, and Grant Leslie, ex-aide to former Democratic Senator Tom Daschle and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, handle the account.
WPP owns Glover Park Group.
Anne Kierig, who was senior manager of public policy at Amazon, has joined the American Advertising Federation as VP-government affairs. She takes over for Clark Rector, who is retiring after a 37-year run at AAF.
TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC, which was established in compliance with the executive order signed by President Trump, has hired Valcour LLC, which has close ties with his administration.
Ballard Partners has signed on gunmaker Sturm, Ruger & Co to advocate on behalf of Second Amendment issues.
Sakura Conservation Strategies has registered Japanese American Confinement Sites Consortium as a client.
Sachs Media has signed on to represent the Tobacco-Free Kids Action Fund to advocate for public policies proven to reduce tobacco use, which is the No. 1 cause of preventable deaths in the US and the rest of the world.
