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Plant-based meat needs government support to scale up, but a culture war stands in the way (grist.org)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Im glad you found something in this line you enjoy! I do product testing for a food manufacturer, and customers have been ubiquitous in saying they hate the plant based products. So I am speaking from my professional experience.

That said, things are getting better in this world, and hopefully soon we will have good meat alternatives that are not just niche cases.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You are also getting fairly biased feedback on this case, though. Realistically, I think companies like Beyond, Impossible, and Quorn have multiple product lines that give a taste and texture experience pretty damned close to their target, but people expect meat replacements to taste bad and so they do because taste is a wildly wishy-washy concept.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I am speaking from an in-house research perspective. Dont get me wrong, the marketing people wish you were right. And there are definitely products that are getting closer. But overall, consumer feedback is "bleh".