The plant-based vegan meat market has just jumped nearly 1 billion dollars in value due to concerns over the pandemic and animal meat safety.
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Animal Agriculture “News” Claims Plant Based Vegan Burgers Will Make Men Grow Breasts
. Tri-State Livestock News is using the old tried and true nonsense that men will grow breasts if they consume soy and soy derived products. This alarmist “news” follows the ubiquitous popularity of plant based vegan meat alternatives like the Beyond Meat Beyond Burger or the Impossible Foods Impossible Whopper. Despite many in the animal…
Kroger Grocery Stores Testing Plant Based Meats
. Kroger grocery stores are now testing plant based meat in a partnership with the Plant Based Foods Association (PBFA). 60 Kroger stores in Denver, Illinois, and Indiana all have displays with a 3 foot plant based meat section in with the traditional meat department. The test went live December 9th according to the PBFA…
Victory! Federal Court Strikes Down Anti Vegan Meat Law
. Arkansas passed HB 1407 back in March specifically targeting The Tofurky Company. Called the “Truth in Labeling” bill it sought to limit the definition of “meat” as only being from dismembered animal bodies. Not surprisingly Tofurky backed by The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), The Good Food Institute (GFI), Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF), and ACLU of Arkansas…
Beyond Meat just hit another milestone by launching in Canada
. A Fox Business article quotes Founder Ethan Brown as saying: “We are excited to bring our latest product innovation to Canadians, welcoming a growing number of consumers to the delicious taste and nutritional and environmental benefits of our plant-based proteins. Canada is a very progressive market and since launching in retail there earlier this…
Taco Bell Adds Vegan Meat To Menu
. Infamously Taco Bell said they wouldn’t be adding plant based meats from Impossible Foods or Beyond Meat to their menu earlier this year. They instead doubled down on their “vegetarian menu” and came out with vegan certified sauces. Well their tune has changed drastically and it’s probably from seeing Burger King and KFC’s massive…
Vegan Meat To Hit $140 Billion Dollars By 2029
. The UK investment bank Barclays researched the plant based meat market putting out a recent report that concludes there is a huge opportunity of vegan meats because of the traditional flesh meat market being in high demand due to our ever increasing population. The environmental impact of animal agriculture is severe and market cannot…
Hormel Foods Launches Plant Based Meat Brand “Happy Little Plants”
Hormel Foods Launches Plant Based Meat Brand “Happy Little Plants”
Largest Slaughterhouse Record Holder Smithfield Foods Launches Vegan Meats
On Monday August 12th Smithfield Foods Inc. launched their own line of soy based plant meats including; burgers, meatballs, sausages, and ground beef. The new line called Pure Farmland will be carried by Kroger Co., Sprouts Farmers Market Inc. and Target Corp starting in September, John Pauley, Smithfield’s chief commercial officer, said in an interview….