Posted on 11/30/2021 7:56:07 AM PST by mylife
We’ve been keeping track of plant-based meat alternatives for a while now. This year, vegan chicken offerings have sprung up big time, and overall, the momentum has felt strong. But now, the Financial Times reports that sales of plant-based meat are starting to fall. This might come as a surprise given the wild amount of choices at grocery stores these days, but it turns out that variety might actually be part of the problem.
A data group called SPINS found that in the four weeks prior to October 3, sales of vegan meat substitutes dropped 1.8% as compared to 2020. There are several likely reasons for this (it’s been a complicated year, everyone). Not only have dining restrictions lifted in many areas, meaning a dip in grocery sales, but supply chain issues have also caused some store shelves to go empty for periods of time.
Maple Leaf Foods, a Canadian company that owns a plant-based protein brand called Green Leaf, along with Beyond Meat, logged weak sales over the past few weeks too. Maple Leaf CEO Michael McCain told analysts earlier this month, “In the past six months, unexpectedly, there has been a rapid deceleration in the category growth rates of plant-based protein.”
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My daughter does her best to practice vegan diet. Must admit some of the dishes she prepares are incredibly delicious. BUT, she love brie and sushi, so she cannot really wear the vegan label :)
That said, due to a desire to eat healthier, I’ve been practicing 1 wk. vegan, 1 wk. vegetarian, 1 wk. Pescatarian, then 1 wk. whatever the heck I please and back around the circle again. I LOVE a good crock pot of chili and found those veggie burgers that look as if they’ve been grilled are actually fabulous as a substitute for ground beef in chili. Now, I would never do that to dinner guests, but if prepared with the fact in mind it is NOT MEAT and not supposed to ever take it’s place, the flavor is honestly not bad at all. The veggie sausage is quite nice in veggie soup too...
Last week was Thanksgiving, and last night I had Mexican, so try to guess which of the 4 wks I’m doing twice this month LOL.
Why not just eat cardboard, it tastes better.
It’s been done.
Globalism plans to give us worse and worse lifestyles.
I will continue to eat meat & drink water & not EVER purchase any fake meat products(barf)!
There was/is apparently a method to get people to add to the sales by urging them to try the new. Coke has the most blatant I’ve seen with their ‘I have to try it first’ motto.
Nice Giff....will borrow it.
Funny how all the people who decried against “Frankenfoods” were on board with Plant-based meat.
Nice Giff....will borrow it.
“In the past six months, unexpectedly, there has been a rapid deceleration in the category growth rates of plant-based protein.”
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There’s that word again.
Yep
And deep fried
I wonder if meat-based vegetables would sell better.
As a friend used to say:
Salads are what food eats.
That shit will kill you. It is so unhealthy.
I admit I will eat Jack in the Box Tacos, and we all know that is not meat, but Jack never said it was...
And hey, 2 for 99c
I stand corrected, they are meat.
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