Good News Notes: “Drew Barrymore says plant-based meat should be accessible and affordable for all. The actor, entrepreneur, and talk show host says she hardly ever eats animal meat, and instead, seeks out plant-based alternatives. After reading Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals, Barrymore vowed to reduce her chicken intake. Eating Animals shines a light on the morals surrounding boycotting…
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Vegan Fast Food Chain Opens Its 10th Location
Good News Notes: “Plant Power Fast Food is going head to head with the big players in the fast-food space but making a bet on the fact that eating meat-free, dairy-free is the way of the future. The company, based in California, is expanding nationwide, and already has restaurants near colleges like San Diego State University…
Leonardo DiCaprio Urges 37 Million Fans to Replace Meat with Beyond Burgers
Good News Notes: “Today, actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio urged his 19.5 million Twitter and 18 million Facebook followers to reduce their meat consumption to fight the climate crisis. DiCaprio shared an image of a Beyond Burger with a statistic about the positive carbon impact of every American replacing one beef burger with a plant-based…
20 Plant-Based Foods Coming to Market in 2021
Good News Notes: “The plant-based food boom is heating up. Growth in the segment outpaced all other food categories amid the coronavirus pandemic, with plant-based meat sales up 148 percent in 2020 compared to the year before. Having surpassed the $5 billion mark last year, the overall plant-based food market is set to top $74 billion by 2027. …
Vegan meatless meat is going mainstream. Beyond Burger and Impossible Foods have big competition.
Good News Notes: “In a year of splashy news for plant-based meat — skyrocketing sales! the new McPlant! —one of the biggest developments in the field went oddly underreported. In the last three months of 2020, some of the biggest companies in the world announced major moves into the plant-based meat space. In September, Tesco — the UK’s…
“Vegan Costco” Now Offers a Veganuary Sampler Pack Stuffed with Plant-Based Bacon, Pepperoni, and Pulled Pork
Good News Notes: “For the month of January, vegan online retailer VEDGEco—which operates similarly to wholesale chain Costco—is launching a Veganuary Sampler Pack to celebrate the month-long campaign that challenges people to go vegan. The $100 pack includes a variety of products to help Veganuary participants stick to their pledges, namely: A 10-pack Impossible Burger 2-pound…
Here are the 10 Plant-Based Food Trends That Will Be Big in 2021
Good News Notes: “Working in an industry that is experiencing rapid growth, I often get a preview of the latest products, trends, and technology in the plant-based realm. With an eagerness to get 2020 in our rearview mirror, and looking ahead to what we will be eating and drinking for health and wellbeing in the plant-based…