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Vegan dream in tatters as $8bn fake meat darling now worthless after brutal Wall Street sell off
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By BEN SHIMKUS, US CONSUMER REPORTER

Published: 22:51 EDT, 13 October 2025 | Updated: 03:53 EDT, 14 October 2025
 
A bellwether in the vegan food industry is getting a raw deal on Wall Street.

Beyond Meat — once worth $7.8billion — is now almost worthless after an attempt to tackle its debt got the thumbs down from investors.

The near collapse of Beyond isn't just a blow for the company itself — it's a clear symptom of the wider vegan food industry.
 
As the poster child for plant-based meat, analysts say its struggles underline the sector's core problems: limited consumer demand, high prices, and products that often fail to deliver on taste or convenience.

Beyond's stock plunged 50 percent Monday after the company announced a sweeping plan to swap its old debt for new loans and issue hundreds of millions of new shares.

 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/article-15188259/beyond-meat-vegan-burger-stock-price-drop.html
abolitionist Frederick Douglass: “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.”

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I suspect this could be the death knell for such healthful delights as spiders, worms, maggots, and June Bugs.

                                    AND

What is Bill Gates going to do with those thousands of acres of land he bought to supply the vegan agenda? :tongue2:
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abolitionist Frederick Douglass: “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.”

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I never saw the 'health' benefit to consuming industrially-processed pea slurry.

The Greens claimed it was good for fighting Global Climate Change by a gross reduction in methane emissions from cow farts.  I call shenanigans on the math used to miscalculate the carbon footprint of this Nonsense.
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Green Flagship “Beyond Meat” Shares Plunge After Debt Restructure
9 hours ago Eric Worrall 34 Comments
Essay By Eric Worrall

Bill Gates’ Beyond meat, promoted as a climate friendly alternative to real meat, is struggling with consumer backlash against processed foods.

Beyond Meat’s stock collapses after debt deal

By Laurence Darmiento
Staff Writer
Oct. 16, 2025 3 AM PT

Shares of El Segundo-based Beyond Meat fell to less than $1 after a debt deal, down from their 2019 peak of nearly $235.

The plant-based meat maker has seen sales plunge from $465 million in 2021 to $326 million last year as consumers return to animal protein.

Second-quarter sales dropped 20%, part of a broader 18% decline across the U.S. plant-based meat industry over the last two years.

What does it cost a company when it’s no longer in the zeitgeist? For stockholders in Beyond Meat, perhaps as much as 99% of their money, if they bought at the top of the market.

Shares of the El Segundo maker of plant-based meats, an investors’ darling a few year ago, collapsed this week to less than $1 after the company wrapped up a deal to reduce its debt burden. The deal involves issuing up to 326 million new shares to the note holders.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/10/19/green-flagship-beyond-meat-shares-plunge-after-debt-restructure/
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Oh no!  Not another climate enterprise bomb for Bill Gates?  How sad. :laughingdog:
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Stock price of Bill Gates-backed Beyond Meat drops to less than $1
10/22/2025 / By Ramon Tomey



Beyond Meat’s stock plummeted 99 percent from its 2019 peak of $234 to under $1. A desperate 300 percent shareholder dilution through debt restructuring backfired, reducing market capitalization from $14 billion to under $80 million.

Once marketed as “healthier, ethical and climate-friendly,” fake meat is now widely seen as ultra-processed, toxic and inferior to real animal protein. Sales plunged 20 percent in Q2 2024, with industry-wide plant-based meat sales dropping 18 percent over two years as people return to natural foods.

Studies link synthetic ingredients to digestive issues, allergies, kidney disease and long-term harm. Critics highlight Beyond Meat’s reliance on GMOs, industrial seed oils and additives, reinforcing distrust in corporate-engineered food.

Bill Gates and the World Economic Forum pushed fake meat as part of their food control and depopulation agenda, sparking backlash from farmers and consumers. The same elites who promoted COVID-19 lockdowns and vaccine mandates lost credibility as people rejected their dietary propaganda.

Beyond Meat’s downfall signals the end of the fake meat bubble, with Impossible Foods also struggling. Consumers are waking up to corporate-controlled food systems, choosing nutrient-dense, natural meat over billionaire-backed synthetic substitutes.

https://www.climate.news/2025-10-22-stock-price-beyond-meat-drops-measly-amount.html
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abolitionist Frederick Douglass: “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.”

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Now he'll buy it up on the dip, and push it again with lab-created gunk.
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As an appeal to those who think that animals are "polluting" the planet with carbon, I am considering marketing 40-lb.bags of lab-grown fertilizer.

I'd like to call it: "Beyond Bullshit".  (to my secretary... "Get Gates on the phone, pronto!!")
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I can't believe that industrially processed and packaged pea slurry is actually healthy.

Carbon is an essential building block of life of earth.  To delcare war on an element of the Periodic Table of Elements, that is so essential to life on Earth, is asinine.

What's next, other elements essential to life on Earth?  Oxygen is a pollutant?  Nitrogen?  Potassium?  or any electrolyte?  Re-classify Gatorade and Pedialyte as toxic waste?

We need to stop letting nitwits sabotage our economy.


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If you understand the logistics, fake meat is an utterly absurd idea over doing it the regular way, even if you believe in global warming.
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It's not helpful the stuff tastes like bat guano.
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The WashPost says eating meat is bad for the planet, but worse in some cities. Or something.
Gosh, if the fake meat industry collapses, we'll just have to eat ants.

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