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If you want to save a cow, eat an Impossible Burger. Or stop eating cheese.
Plant-based foods have emerged as an alternative to traditional animal agriculture, but dairy cows contribute a great deal of ground beef to the system.
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We eat more dairy than we drink these days: Per capita consumption of cheese is up 16 percent. (iStock)By Laura Reiley strongest stock market debut of any company last year. And yet plant-based meat substitutes still accounted for only 1 percent of all dollar sales for total retail meat, according toOne in five pounds3,224,200 dairy cowsthis week that it would challenge Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods with its own plant-based burger patties and ground-meat alternative. The investment firm UBS predicts that the worldwide, plant-based meat-alternatives industry will rise to $85 billion in value by 2030 from $4.5 billion today.
And yet, according to the USDA, per capita beef consumption went from 54 pounds in 2015 to 57.7 pounds in 2019, with a projected 57.9 pounds in 2020. Reports have indicated that dairy is in trouble, with fluid milk consumption down 26 percent since 2000, according to the Dairy Farmers of America.
But despite recent high-profile bankruptcies by major milk producers Dean Foods and Borden Dairy
Plant-based foods have emerged as an alternative to traditional animal agriculture, but dairy cows contribute a great deal of ground beef to the system.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...er-meat-dairy/
We eat more dairy than we drink these days: Per capita consumption of cheese is up 16 percent. (iStock)By Laura Reiley strongest stock market debut of any company last year. And yet plant-based meat substitutes still accounted for only 1 percent of all dollar sales for total retail meat, according toOne in five pounds3,224,200 dairy cowsthis week that it would challenge Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods with its own plant-based burger patties and ground-meat alternative. The investment firm UBS predicts that the worldwide, plant-based meat-alternatives industry will rise to $85 billion in value by 2030 from $4.5 billion today.And yet, according to the USDA, per capita beef consumption went from 54 pounds in 2015 to 57.7 pounds in 2019, with a projected 57.9 pounds in 2020. Reports have indicated that dairy is in trouble, with fluid milk consumption down 26 percent since 2000, according to the Dairy Farmers of America.
But despite recent high-profile bankruptcies by major milk producers Dean Foods and Borden Dairy