/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>12604468
They'll soon be cheaper than meat. Probably next year. Here's an excerpt from the CEO that was fed through a business analyst:

> “Once plant-based meat achieves sufficient market penetration to tap into these emerging opportunities to optimize raw materials and make production more efficient, the industry will enter a bright new era of accessibility and affordability that will benefit both consumers and producers.”

>“There are major and minor elements of the manufacturing facility and production process design that make sense only for production volumes 10-fold or 100-fold larger than the capacity of the existing plant-based meat facilities, and these changes can facilitate radical increases in efficiency and thus decreases in cost,”

You're essentially paying more because of subsidies. The high demand is crippling the raw material supply currently. Once this ramps up, you'll see $0.50 burgers and versions of the product at one tenth of the price most likely.

We’ve been eating meat since we lived in caves. And today, some of our most magical moments together happen around meat: Weekend barbecues. Midnight fast-food runs. Taco Tuesdays. Hot dogs at the ballpark. Those moments are special, and we never want them to end. But using animals to make meat is a prehistoric and destructive technology. Animal agriculture occupies almost half the land on earth, consumes a quarter of our freshwater and destroys our ecosystems. So we’re doing something about it: we’re making meat using plants, so that we never have to use animals again. That way, we can eat all the meat we want, for as long as we want. And save the best planet in the known universe.

Why make meat from plants you ask? For all the mouthwatering flavor and only a tiny fraction of the environmental impact of meat from cows. Eat up. Save Earth.

>The Impossible Burger Is Now Grubhub’s Most Popular Late-Night Snack
>In its new “State of the Plate” report, the delivery platform analyzes more than 500,000 orders placed in the first half of 2019 to find that plant-based food is skyrocketing in popularity.

So why aren't you eating one right this instant /ck/?