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2021-10-22 Home Front: Politix
Beyond Meat Implodes After Reporting Catastrophic Q3 Sales
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Posted by Raj 2021-10-22 09:04|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 

"Beyond Meat" producer of VEGGIE-based meat substitutes.

Face it Veggin's there wasn't enough of you willing to support a company geared solely for your dietary lifestyle.
Posted by NN2N1 2021-10-22 10:04||   2021-10-22 10:04|| Front Page Top

#2 "The company said that multiple factors contributed to the shortfall during the quarter:"

They forgot two:
* The product does not taste like meat
* Vegetarians prefer to virtue signal their diet and looking like you are eating a burger is the opposite of that. So there is no real market beyond the curious.
Posted by rjschwarz 2021-10-22 10:04||   2021-10-22 10:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Have seen vegan stuff just sitting in the grocery...
Posted by crazyhorse 2021-10-22 10:29||   2021-10-22 10:29|| Front Page Top

#4 The overall problem is, after telling us for years that 'processed foods' are bad, people aren't willing to go for food products that are by definition 100% processed.
Remember "Frankenfood", anybody?
Posted by ed in texas 2021-10-22 10:46||   2021-10-22 10:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Frankenfood = when other people produce it (not us)
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-10-22 10:56||   2021-10-22 10:56|| Front Page Top

#6 I thought Turducken was Frankenfood
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-10-22 11:34||   2021-10-22 11:34|| Front Page Top

#7 Demand was impacted by broader ongoing macro and micro-economic factors, including among others, the effects of the COVID-19 Delta variant.

Ohhhh....the Delta Variant. I would have guessed the Tri-Lamb.
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-10-22 12:04||   2021-10-22 12:04|| Front Page Top

#8 Unexpectedly, something that tastes like $#!+ doesn't sell well. Plus, what is it with veegans wanting a meat substitute? Seems like a contradiction. Why is this not considered "processed food"? We are definitely in the "Crazy Years"!
Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2021-10-22 12:27||   2021-10-22 12:27|| Front Page Top

#9 * Challenges in operations that led to unfulfilled orders

Supply chain labor shortage?
Posted by Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2021-10-22 12:44||   2021-10-22 12:44|| Front Page Top

#10 
what is it with veegans wanting a meat substitute?

Regular veegan fare is tasteless.
Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-10-22 13:34||   2021-10-22 13:34|| Front Page Top

#11 #8 well put. Reality can be a B. I can't wait for made in China label.
Posted by Dale 2021-10-22 13:51||   2021-10-22 13:51|| Front Page Top

#12 If vegans are so opposed to eating real meat, they shouldn't be allowed to eat fake meat either.

Since their stance is based on morality, they shouldn't cheat the consequence of it.
Posted by Silentbrick 2021-10-22 14:13||   2021-10-22 14:13|| Front Page Top

#13 SB, you can take as a parallel to fake meat, the story of turkey "ham". As in the smoke cured dark meat turkey in place of a pork product.
Biggest market worldwide, the US (think the ham in a Subway sandwich.
#2 market: Israel, because reasons.
#3 market: Saudi Arabia, because other reasons.
Posted by ed in texas 2021-10-22 16:03||   2021-10-22 16:03|| Front Page Top

#14 orders were unfulfilled because there were non.
Posted by Chris 2021-10-22 16:21||   2021-10-22 16:21|| Front Page Top

#15 re: taste

yes the first and second generation of meat substitutes have been inferior in taste to real meat

but just wait a few years and you carnivores may change your mind

even today the impossible meat is selling reasonably well - Denny's and Burger King have pretty substantial sales of the product
Posted by Lord Garth 2021-10-22 17:15||   2021-10-22 17:15|| Front Page Top

#16 All tastes like mustard to me.
Posted by Skidmark 2021-10-22 17:47||   2021-10-22 17:47|| Front Page Top

#17 Rocky Mountain Oysters
Fernando Valley Burgers
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-10-22 18:04||   2021-10-22 18:04|| Front Page Top

#18 Whenever I get a full-media MSM press to substitute a known favorite for an unknown crap SJW alternate, I say hell no. Proven right, again
Posted by Frank G 2021-10-22 21:20||   2021-10-22 21:20|| Front Page Top

#19 better editing would've made that thought clearer...my bad
Posted by Frank G 2021-10-22 21:22||   2021-10-22 21:22|| Front Page Top

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