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>> The Good Food Institute Europe (GFI Europe) reports that sales of plant-based foods across 13 European nations amounted to €5.7 billion in 2022. The good fo
by oifjsidjf 3y ago
>> The Good Food Institute Europe (GFI Europe) reports that sales of plant-based foods across 13 European nations amounted to €5.7 billion in 2022.
The good food institude is the lobbying arm of the lab grown protein companies.
>> ...a Y Combinator funded non-profit that promotes plant- and cultivated meat alternatives to conventional animal meat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Friedrich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Friedrich
Also look at stocks at these fake food companies: they are all going down.
- somedude895 3y agoAll the overvalued growth stocks are going down because the supply of easy money dried up. The massive rise in BYND share price was always ridiculous. Their products are easy to replicate and companies like Nestlé have way more resources to bring them to market successfully and sustainably, which they're doing now.
- throwaway290 3y agoSomebody not eating animal products for ethical reasons will not buy anything from Nestle given a choice, for very same reasons. And yes, we who avoid Nestle pay more for alternatives, but if you know their business practices there's no moral choice.
- karmakurtisaani 3y agoI respectfully disagree. As much as I would like to avoid the kinds of Nestle, it's just impossible in practice for many of us. Instead, I try to find comfort in the fact that animal replacements are becoming cheap and common because of the mega corporations.
- throwaway290 3y ago> As much as I would like to avoid the kinds of Nestle, it's just impossible in practice for many of us Why?
- kitkat_new 3y ago> As much as I would like to avoid the kinds of Nestle, it's just impossible in practice for many of us. how so?
- oh_sigh 3y agoWell, for one, it requires remembering every brand present on this infographic: https://wyomingllcattorney.com/static/img/nestle-list.png https://wyomingllcattorney.com/static/img/nestle-list.png
- wonderingwhale 3y agoI am fairly sure that there is a nestle logo on the packaging of these brands as well
- throwaway290 3y agoExactly. All that's required is looking at packaging. Anyone who cares about what they put into their body is already having a habit of doing that.
- oh_sigh 3y agoI'm not sure many people are checking the nutritional information of their San Pellegrino.
- karmakurtisaani 3y agoWife, kids, full time job, hobbies.. simply no time or energy to start looking at each item and finding alternatives when finally buying groceries.
- kitkat_new 3y agoHate Nestle? Download the app Boycott. https://www.reddit.com/r/FuckNestle/comments/ihk2ul/hate_nestle_download_the_app_boycott/ https://www.reddit.com/r/FuckNestle/comments/ihk2ul/hate_nes...
- somedude895 3y agoI'm not a vegetarian, but I eat little meat and replace the rest with meat alternatives. And I buy Nestle products, as do pretty much all people I know who are also trying to reduce their meat consumption. Meat alternatives are entering the mainstream and not everybody who cares about animal welfare is also an activist.
- throwaway290 3y agoMost people I know buy Nestle products, but most people I know are not vegan. I meant if your ethical values push you to go through the trouble of cutting out animal products completely, possibly at great cost to you, then I fail to see how the modicum of effort required to avoid buying Nestle products is anything but a rounding error.
- CalRobert 3y agoGood points until you showed obvious bias with the "fake food" comment.
- AlecSchueler 3y agoWas already there with "lab grown protein" instead of vegan meat, meat substitute etc.
- hexis 3y agoDismissing a point due to bias is an example of the ad hominem fallacy.
- mkoubaa 3y agoNo it's not
- zo1 3y agoNot OP. Then what "value" did you even bring to this conversation then, other than to say this person has bias? Because the natural interpretation of your comment is "oh, good facts, but see he has this bias because of this word, therefore the facts must be wrong or misleading or cherry picked". That interpretation sure sounds like an ad-hominem. If there is bias, state your counter points to prove that point.
- mkoubaa 3y agoI responded to a comment that used the term "ad hominem" wrongly. A dictionary could explain proper usage of that term better than I could so I don't bother
- CalRobert 3y agoPersonally I hoped people could make strong arguments and not weaken their own stance with pettiness. It's real food. You can eat it.
- CalRobert 3y ago