Plant-based meat sales plummet because they mimic real meat too closely, experts contend

[Free Vulcan]

Plant-based meat sales took a nose dive in 2022 because consumers simply cannot stomach the product's overwhelmingly meat-like characteristics, experts cited by the Washington Post suggest.

After a brief boon at the zenith of the pandemic, the two mainstays of plant-based meat, Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods, are now struggling to stay alive. Stock prices bit the big one for Beyond Meat in 2022, and Impossible hit its workers with two rounds of layoffs, the outlet also reported.

Meat alternatives' Achilles' heel is attributed to their alleged success at making the product look, feel, taste, smell, and act just like animal meat. Unfortunately, consumers who are drawn to plant-based meats are apparently no longer as keen on products that convincingly "bleed" as they were initially.

Love it or hate it, the irony of plant-based meats' failure hinging on achieving its goal to be virtually identical to meat is impossible to ignore.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/plant-based-meat-sales-plummet-because-they-mimic-real-meat-too-closely-experts-contend

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There literally is no pleasing cult zealot Gaia jihadists.

[Smokin Joe]

That stuff isn't meat, it's a veggie patty.

Beef, Elk, Moose, Deer, etc. are all plant-based. Critter eats grass and turns it to meat.

What's the problem.

[Free Vulcan]

That stuff isn't meat, it's a veggie patty.

Beef, Elk, Moose, Deer, etc. are all plant-based. Critter eats grass and turns it to meat.

What's the problem.

And they are far more efficient at doing it too.

Townies don't understand, only pigs can be fed grain in fairly large amounts. Bovines/ruminants are grass eaters, and some farmers will finish cows out on a little bit of corn to add extra weight faster. Too much though and it will kill them. The rest eat all grass.

These fake meats though are made from grains, legume, and vegetables - things that need cultivated acreage to be grown. I think once the numbers stack up it will take far more resources to make fake meat than the real stuff.

[catfish1957]

Wanna see a red neck riot?

Serve plant based meats at your next BBQ. 

[roamer_1]

Wanna see a red neck riot?

Serve plant based meats at your next BBQ. 

If you told em so, nobody'd show up. 

[DefiantMassRINO]

 

Let the beatniks eat turnip burgers.

Keep your commie hands off my bacon double cheeseburger.

[roamer_1]

Speaking of cheeseburger, I was at MickeyD's the other day and ordered a double quarter pounder with cheese deluxe for the first time...

Basically a double quarter pounder they drag through the garden.

That came closer to an actual hamburger than I have had at McDonald's, ever.
Not as good as the McDLT was, as the lettuce is shredded (in normal McDonalds fashion) rather than a crisp actual piece of lettuce, But with more meat, so that's an offset.

[Kamaji]

Speaking of cheeseburger, I was at MickeyD's the other day and ordered a double quarter pounder with cheese deluxe for the first time...

Basically a double quarter pounder they drag through the garden.

That came closer to an actual hamburger than I have had at McDonald's, ever.
Not as good as the McDLT was, as the lettuce is shredded (in normal McDonalds fashion) rather than a crisp actual piece of lettuce, But with more meat, so that's an offset.

I got the deluxe by accident one time, and I have to agree that it's a good update to the McD's hamburger.

[roamer_1]

I got the deluxe by accident one time, and I have to agree that it's a good update to the McD's hamburger.

Have to admit there's a bit of nostalgia there too... A nearly forgotten term, 'deluxe', which once meant something at a diner. If you ordered a cheeseburger deluxe, they put the garden stack on it.