New Products, Growing Demand Fuel Growth Of Plant-Based Food Sales
www.forbes.com
Are companies deluging the market with new plant-based meat, egg and dairy alternatives because sales are on the rise or are sales growing by double digits annually because there are so many new products to choose from?

U.S. retail sales of plant-based foods grew 11.4% last year

One of the biggest growth categories last year was plant-based eggs

“Companies know that you need to have plant-based as a solution, especially when we’re talking about doing it sustainably and safely,” she said.

Bonus:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-30/good-news-for-climate-change-as-world-loses-its-taste-for-meat

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations estimates that meat production—a decent proxy for consumption—dropped in 2019, and it forecasts a decline again this year.

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    • Gay_Wrath [fae/faer]
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      4 years ago

      mmmm, that'd require them DOING things though. in my experience they agree with it on an ethical level but keep eating their chicken tendies while calling rude vegans 'extremists'

      • kaka [he/him,they/them]
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        4 years ago

        yes true I didn't mean they go vegan, I meant that they don't really oppose vegan products either. People who oppose vegan products for existing at the supermarket mostly aren't libs, but some kind of chud

        • Gay_Wrath [fae/faer]
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          4 years ago

          oh gotcha yeah. I've also even seen libs use plant milks if they aren't vegan, which is barely a step at all, yet still good