Big Ag wants a cut of booming fake-meat market

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Bunge Ltd, one the world's biggest grain traders, recently disclosed the 1....

) that have cashed in on plant-based meat substitutes. Demand for meat alternatives has soared as consumers add plant-based protein to their diets for health reasons and out of concern for animal welfare and environmental damage from livestock farming.

“We’ve dedicated a significant amount of our team - the technical side of our team, as well as the commercial side of our team - to plant-based proteins,” Macciocchi said. Toronto-based pork processor Maple Leaf two years ago bought U.S.-based Lightlife Foods, a plant-based burger-maker, to expand its reach into a market with boundless potential, chief executive Michael McCain said. While the trend is starting in North America and Europe, it will expand worldwide within a decade, McCain said.

 

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TV I’ll stick to eating what ever doesn’t eat me first... and to make passing attempt at anything will.

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TV Because nothing says American than giving the government a huge percentage of the profits they had nothing to do with

TV Vegans will find a way to bitch one way or another.

TV Guess they got bored of trying to squash it.

TV that's probably what's on popeyes chicken 🐓

TV Best go organic then, no one wants glyphosate laden Amazon forest destroying soybeans anymore.

TV Back in my day meat was meat! Now it’s just more corn 🌽

TV W T F is wrong with Mainstream? Its PLANT Based not FAKE Meat. This is why everyone thinks its poison now. Media wants ppl to Hate plant based diets. reuters BeyondMeat ImpossibleFoods plantbased

TV still beats the alternative.

TV my dad was an animal scientist at Colorado State University (nutrition) and was a feedlot manager for what we now call (CAFOs) and I can say there is a lot of promise in the science behind meat like this. The cowboy that my dad was... would agree that a natural life for animals..

TV My perspective is BYND is still overvalued. If you're a betting man, shorting this might be a good idea.

TV Yuckie!

This looked great until I read plant-protein. I would rather have a wonderful great tasting hamburger once a month with delicious meat and keep the plant protein for my turtle.

the steaks are U or P e shift up or down nice ?

Wonder if you know it takes up grazing land needed for our herds, to grow that crap & “red alert, red alert” same calories

non alcohol beer was hot for awhile

Overly processed food

I will eat meat anytime and every time my body will allow me to have it. These veggie burgers are fantastic for those of us that need to give our pancreas a break.

Overpriced, over processed junk food. Don’t be fooled into thinking it’s healthful

Hellz to the yeah. Good stuff!

Greed, poor nutrition and fraud pretending to be “innovative” “sustainable” or “healthier”. Hopefully few will be fooled into buying this overpriced, over processed junk food

If it’s NOT real meat 🥩, it’s just protein, not beef, chicken 🐓, or Fish 🐟.

If reincarnation exists, is it limited to humans? If Hitler came back as a cow, would that make eating black angus burgers ethical and politically correct with peta ? 🤓🤔🤣

Uh, fake meat accounts for 0% of meat purchases. You can tell that from the fact it's not meat. It may account for a percentage of protein purchases instead of meat. In other news, bicycles now account for 1% of car purchases, said no one, ever.

What is the dictionary definition of impossible?

Top agricultural firms in Canada & US want to grab their cut of the booming market for plant-based fake meat. UK will be flooded with 'FAKE MEAT' if we leave EU & strike a trade deal with US/CANADA!!😱😱😱

Well theyve been selling fake meat in the form of mislabeled, water injected, processed 'meat' products for a few decades now.

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