Plant-Based Food Companies Face Critics: Environmental Advocates

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Neither Beyond Meat nor Impossible Foods discloses the amount of greenhouse gas emissions from its operations, supply chains or consumer waste. They also do not disclose the effects of their operations on forests or how much water they use.

The Impossible Burger, which has 21 ingredients, including soy, according to the company's website, in New York, Aug. 30, 2019.

But on its website, Beyond Meat claims that consumers who switch from animal to plant-based protein can “positively affect the planet, the environment, the climate and even ourselves.” Impossible Foods says that switching to plant-based meats “can be better than getting solar panels, driving an electric car or avoiding plastic straws” when it comes to reducing your environmental footprint.

Even as consumers and investors move to hold Big Food more accountable for its emissions, the fact that two of the leading plant-based food companies do not offer these disclosures is a source of frustration for watchdogs. A spokesperson for Impossible Foods added that the company had a working group that had completed a full greenhouse gas inventory, was planning to set targets to reduce emissions and was preparing for environmental, social and governance reporting.

 

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that's because they don't fucken know

1) Plantbased market in infancy & has nowhere near the lobby meat producers have. 2) Meat producers that are transparent doesn’t mean sustainable processes; it just means they are transparent. 3) Meat producers voluntarily negotiated sustainability metrics to work in their favour

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