There is demand for plant-based meat... at a lower price point than real meat. It will never be a viable category at a premium price. These attempts to make it a prestige product have doomed it from the start. People who will not accept or change for moral reasons won't do so for STYLE reasons either - it HAS to be a pocketbook consideration.
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I think their plan was to market to wealthy vegans and to run on novelty until they figured out how to make their product at a lower price.
Yeah, I agree. And it's working out exactly as I expected.
I don’t like Beyond and have only met one or two people who do, but aside from the taste problem they are expensive. Meat alternatives need to be a fraction of the price of meat, but instead they are treated as luxury bourgeois foodstuff. We need to do better.