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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  • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    First, idk how you are insulting libs with your claims, as libs are all for market based consumption solutions, unless of course you are trying to call all leftists who consume meat products libs, in which case I am SO HAPPY to reignite this struggle session.

    Second, what he is saying is that vegan consumption choices (within the U.S.) have not actually decreased the amount of meat production. If you look at the graph for total production numbers of both red-meat and poultry, the number has continued to rise even into 2020. What has increased are the amount of production of plant based products, which is great, but without a corresponding drop, this simply is business as usual for capitalism which will more than likely just produce and throw those meat products away than produce less.

          • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
            1·
            4 years ago

            Global meat production loss likely has little to do with vegan ideology.

            Edit: You know what, I am being crabby. Here's the sich. I may or may not work at a large cheese packaging plant. Now, I personally consume vegetarian food, except with family and friends, but during processing the company throws out something like over 50,000 pounds of cheese from the facility yearly. Most of it is fine to eat, it's just the packaging got screwed up or someone put almonds in instead of cashews. Production runs and increases regardless of actual consumer consumption rates, because the margins of profit are high enough on the retail end to justify those losses. They also package vegan cheese, but instead of cutting into production time for other products, shifts were moved around to accommodate larger cleaning crews so production continues to increase for all products. And this was during 2020.

            My point is that until we solve the 'capitalism that requires number to go up' problem, it will be difficult or nigh on impossible to address the animal harm and consumption problem.