{"id":345619,"date":"2024-10-06T13:16:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T11:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=345619"},"modified":"2024-10-06T13:16:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T11:16:15","slug":"climatists-war-on-meat-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=345619","title":{"rendered":"Climatists\u2019 War on Meat\u00a0updated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Science Matters <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Ron Clutz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tyler Durden reports at Zerohedge Meat Substitutes Still A Tiny Sliver Of US Meat Market.  Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the past few years, plant-based meat substitutes<\/u><\/a> have come closer and closer to mimicking the real thing,<\/strong> with brands like Beyond Meat<\/u><\/a> having even<\/strong> sussed out how to create fake meat that \u201cbleeds\u201d.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, as Statista\u2019s Anna Fleck details below,\u2002<\/u><\/a>after an initial boom, the company has rapidly come down from its peaks.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are several reasons for the hype having died down, one of which being that many consumers decided to move away from buying the often more expensive items amid the <\/strong>cost of living crisis<\/u><\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another reason cited is that plant-based meats have become a part of the U.S.\u2019s culture war,<\/strong> labeled as a symbol of left-wing politics and a binary to \u201creal\u201d meat.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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According to data from Statista\u2019s Market Insights<\/u><\/a>, plant-based meat substitutes accounted for a mere sliver of the U.S. meat market last year.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not counting insect-based meat alternatives or cultured, i.e. lab-grown meat, meat substitute sales amounted to $1.4 billion in 2023, while sales of fresh and processed meat added up to almost $124 billion.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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