'Investors are watching closely': How Covid-19 is accelerating the plant based 'meat' trend

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Covid-19 has further accelerated the alternative protein trend | Credit: Beyond Meat
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Covid-19 has further accelerated the alternative protein trend | Credit: Beyond Meat

As the pandemic exposes risk in meat supply chains, investors and retailers are turning in droves to alternative proteins, research suggests

Over the past five years, more and more people have been turning to veganism, vegetarianism and flexitarianism, helping thrust the previously niche market for alternative proteins out of the bottom of...

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