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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  • OgdenTO [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    So was there a slow down in the clearcutting of the Amazon as well? Or did that increase?

    It's not that market solutions don't work, they just don't work to the extent we need or in the timescale to make a difference.

    Don't get me wrong, this is good, it's just not enough and not fast enough.

    • Gay_Wrath [fae/faer]
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      4 years ago

      I agree it's not good enough or fast enough. I'm just pushing back on the lib argument that it literally does nothing.

      • OgdenTO [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        You know what? I thought about it some more, and the only thing that market solutions do is allow companies to change their production within a business time scale, or other companies will take over the market.

        This does not change the relations between the consumer, the producer, and the animals in any meaningful way, it just encourages half measures that protect the status quo.

        Encouraging market solutions, by entrenching the status quo is inherently a liberal reactionary view.

        I think a radical change in the regulations and environmental costs of meat production, with a nationalization and shutdown if meat processing facilities would be the only way that we could effect any actual pressure on the world meat markets.

      • shitshow [any]
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        4 years ago

        Libs literally do nothing, so no point in trying to arguing your veganism to them.

        Completely unrelated and you are under no pressure to explain but: how would I pronounce your pronouns and what are they supposed to represent about your gender? I haven't seen Xey/xem used before.

        • Gay_Wrath [fae/faer]
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          4 years ago

          np lol :) essentially i just don't feel like she or he fits me, kinda like being forced to use a nickname i hate. Xey/xem is the closest i feel to what represents me, that's basically it. It's a pretty new thing, right now it just makes me feel good to see them next to my name. Here's a little usage guide, though of course you can always just call me by username or say 'comrade' :)

          https://pronoun.is/xey/xem/xyr

          • shitshow [any]
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            4 years ago

            NO GENDERS, ONLY COMRADES.

            But thanks.

        • OgdenTO [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          If you think personal consumptive choices count as something significant, I think you are misled. They are good, but not sufficient, and often do harm by taking the wind out the sails of further action or by creating a neoliberal "personal responsibility" viewpoint that accepts the neoliberal framing of environmental and ethical issues.

          Like, it's not my fault that animal husbandry or meat factories exist so I don't need that guilt. Instead empower me to work towards solutions that can show real change, and likely veganism will be a logical byproduct.