• porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    The thing is, it would already be a much lower price point if we didn’t massively subsidize meat production and allow insane levels of animal and human rights abuses in the meat industry. Beef should cost like $100 a pound or more.

    Yeah from a business perspective it’s still kind of their fault that they didn’t realise they can’t compete with an industry which totally externalises it’s environmental impact and it’s subsided by the taxpayer, but ultimately we should blame the laws for this.

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      3 days ago

      You’re not wrong. The meat industry plays dirty. But Beyond Meat could’ve done more to turn the playing field in their favor too - lobbying for carbon credits or for subsidies of their own for climate action back when we had an administration that valued that. Instead they partnered with fast food restaurants trying to push themselves as a lifestyle brand.