Reading Time: 3 minutes As I walk by a storefront that once housed the city’s largest ‘plant-based butcher’, the irony hits me. The new sign announces that this will soon open again – as a beef burger cafe. It brings to light the complexity of understanding Canadian consumers and their varying wants and needs. Protein in all sources is […] Read more
Schoepp: From beyond meat to the return of meat
Climate-based policies frequently ignore consumer preference and economic reality
Fake meat is mostly a fake-out for now
Meat alternative companies have made big boasts, but the numbers are on the side of real animal products
Reading Time: 2 minutes Beyond Meat, Inc. has had almost 15 years to build a product lineup that is, as its name claims, beyond meat. By some business metrics, it has. The company, whose market capitalization was pegged at US$1.3 billion when it went public in 2018, recently reported April-to-June 2023 sales of $102 million. That sounds like a […] Read more
ADM releases alternative protein outlook for 2022
MarketsFarm — Major U.S. agribusiness ADM released a report Tuesday identifying the seven biggest trends in the alternative protein market, ranging from creating new protein sources from fungi to making plant-based meat substitutes more affordable and palatable to the general public. The seven trends in the report were: introduction of novel protein sources, using microbial […] Read more
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