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.
Why misunderstand numbers and be smug about it?
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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.