New Products, Growing Demand Fuel Growth Of Plant-Based Food Sales
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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

    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.