EDF + Business

JANUARY 7, 2020

The statistics on plant-based proteins are eye opening: Beyond Meat’s shares have more than tripled in value since its IPO in May, Impossible Foods can now be found in about 10,000 restaurants, and the market for meat substitutes is expected to reach $2.5 Demand for meat is growing. So is the demand for sustainability.

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Sustainability Meat alternatives Demand Agriculture 40

AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

With refrigerated plant-based burgers driving sales growth, the plant-based meat market is now worth more than $800 million, with sales up 10% since 2018 and growing more than five times as fast as conventional meat sales, which have grown just 2% since 2018, GFI told us.

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Retail Meat alternatives Organic Demand 52

Business Green

APRIL 8, 2021

When brands do eventually and inevitably pivot their business models and products to low-carbon, sustainable options, they need marketing teams to have nurtured and cultivated demand from consumers to receive these new products well. Brands that get this right will thrive. Many organisations struggle to put this into practice.

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Sustainability Meat alternatives Packaging Carbon 62

Grist

OCTOBER 23, 2019

She said the startup aims to help feed the world’s growing population and tap into rising consumer demand for sustainably produced foods. Analysts say the market for plant-based protein and meat alternatives could balloon to $85 billion by 2030. Still, the technology doesn’t exactly eliminate carbon; it recycles it.

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Startups Carbon Fossil fuels Climate change 52

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Today’s meat industry is dominated by a few multinational giants, including JBS , Tyson Foods , Vion , and Danish Crown , with access to markets across the world. In step with rising global demand, meat production has more than quadrupled in the past sixty years. We all have to demand more than just words.

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Pollution Agriculture Carbon-negative Climate change 98

Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2020

Over the past decade, the world has woken up to the urgency of the climate crisis and consumers, governments, and investors are demanding that carbon intensive industries take action. This creates something of a perilous situation for companies that source and sell agricultural products, particularly beef, dairy, pork, and poultry.

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Agriculture Sustainability Carbon-neutral Meat alternatives 97

AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

The market demands them, but it shows little allegiance to their mode of production. In just 15 years and with 30,000 production plants, they could match the global demand for meat. . Whether or not you support animal agriculture, there are major scale-up challenges in meeting the protein demands of another 2.5

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Technology Agriculture Health Startups 52

AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 24, 2019

If you’ve been following the ever-growing number of investments, acquisitions, and product launches in the still-nascent plant-based meat industry, it might seem as though the meat alternative sector is starting on its path to self-sustaining scale.

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Meat alternatives Startups Patents Technology 52