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A plant-based recovery? The Vegetarian Butcher's Hugo Verkuil on shifting diets during a pandemic

Business Green

Unilever recently set out its plan to significantly expand its plant-based range, with a view to securing €1bn in annual sales from alternative meat and dairy products within the next seven years. They are already used to consuming quite a few plant-based alternatives, just not necessarily in the meat-mimicking way," he says.

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Why technology could make animals obsolete

AFN Sustainable Protein

Environmental : Plant-based products are also going to have trouble escaping problems and criticism faced by conventional agriculture, which include monocropping, chemical and fertilizer use, and top-soil depletion. The invention of the car came with urban sprawl, pollution, and over 1.25 million fatalities each year. References. [1]