![]() "The coronavirus crisis has many Americans questioning the wisdom of being so reliant on China, both from a practical and ethical point of view," he said. His organization runs, an unsubtle dig at imitation meat brands. "We have lots of opportunities to buy food-whether plants, real meat or other foods-that is grown and produced right here in North America," Will Coggin, managing director of the Center for Consumer Freedom, a food industry-backed advocacy group, said. Trump Signs Executive Order Keeping Meat Plants Open During Outbreak.Safeway to Limit How Many Meat Products Customers Can Buy.Company Donates Wagyu Steaks Worth $2 Million to San Francisco Food Banks.The company said its first purchases will total some 285 tons.Įver since the emergence of the novel coronavirus in China's Wuhan province, the world press has criticized the Middle Kingdom for its sanitary standards and its lack of institutional transparency. ![]() Shuangta will provide 85 percent of the pea protein for its products. During the last eight weeks, the gain over last year was more than 269 percent.Ĭhina's food-processing factories provide most of what goes into vegan burger patties and other meat replacements made by market leaders Beyond Meat and Impossible foods-an arrangement that could damage their standing among consumers in the coronavirus age.īeyond Meat recently signed a significant deal with Shuangta Foods, located in China's Shandong province. The market research firm Nielsen said nationwide sales of meat alternatives rose 224 percent in the week ending April 25, compared to the same period in 2019. consumers become more wary of all things China-which supplies a majority of the products' ingredients. But the pandemic may in time affect sales of plant-based protein, too, as U.S. While America's biggest beef and pork producers were nearly laid low in April by COVID-19 cases in their workforce, sales of what detractors call "fake meat" boomed. ![]() Beyond Meat "Beyond Burger" patties made from plant-based substitutes for meat products sit on a shelf for sale on Novemin New York City. ![]()
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