Plant-Based Meat is In Trouble

Chris Newman
7 min readSep 24, 2022

The pandemic created a bubble that fake meat may not be able to survive

via the New York Post

Here’s a piece of news that’s curiously absent from the news cycle: one of the two darlings of the plant-based meat world, Beyond Meat, is streaking toward bankruptcy.

It’s hard to believe. Beyond Meat went public just three years ago, securing partnerships with Taco Bell, Subway, KFC, and Dunkin Brands, among…

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Chris Newman

Building a new, accessible, open, and democratic food economy in the Chesapeake Bay region @ Sylvanaqua Farms