Beyond Meat is struggling, and the plant-based meat industry worries
I married a vegan, and I eat a lot of vegetarian food. (I also still eat plenty of meat, just not every day.)<p>One <i>extremely</i> frustrating aspect of plant meat is that they tried to aggressively push out traditional veggie burgers on restaurant menus. A familiar refrain I&#x27;ve heard in restaurants in the last few years is &quot;we used to have a nice veggie patty, but they replaced it with the beyond&#x2F;incredible&#x2F;whatever patty.&quot;<p>The thing is, vegetarian food is incredible without needing to taste like meat. When I&#x27;ve had these products, I&#x27;ve always walked away feeling like they taste inferior to traditional vegetarian burgers &#x2F; sausages that don&#x27;t try to taste like meat.<p>&gt; Some say the slowdown in sales is a product of food inflation, as consumers trade pricier plant-based meat for less-expensive animal meat.<p>Normally vegetarian food costs less than meat. It&#x27;s because the animals need to eat (surprise surprise) vegetables! When you eat the vegetables directly instead of having the animal eat the vegetable for your, it&#x27;s cheaper.<p>IMO, I think the &quot;meat in a vat&quot; system where animal tissue is grown in some kind of factory setting is a much better approach. When I want to eat meat, I want to eat meat.