{"id":754748,"date":"2018-09-24T08:38:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T12:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=754748"},"modified":"2018-09-24T08:38:52","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T12:38:52","slug":"americans-are-gobbling-up-fake-meat-and-milk-faster-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=754748","title":{"rendered":"Americans Are Gobbling Up Fake Meat and Milk Faster Than Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>About an eighth of all milk bought in stores isn\u2019t from a cow, but rather from plants.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>LYDIA MULVANY:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;Americans can\u2019t seem to get enough imitation meat and milk these days. Sales of substitutes to replace all types of animal products are up, and now comprise a $3.7 billion dollar market, according to data from Nielsen&#8230; The research was commissioned by The Good Food Institute, which represents the plant-based foods industry&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>For example, imitation meat made from plants increased 23 percent in the year through Aug. 11 to $684 million. Silicon Valley\u2019s Beyond Meat leads the pack with sales up 70 percent. About an eighth of all milk bought in stores isn\u2019t from a cow, but rather from plants. Non-dairy yogurts, cheeses and ice cream are soaring, rising 40 percent and more. <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloombergquint.com\/global-economics\/2018\/09\/12\/imitation-animal-products-are-all-the-rage-at-grocery-stores\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EeNiqKNtpAA?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LYDIA MULVANY: &#8216;Americans can\u2019t seem to get enough imitation meat and milk these days. Sales of substitutes to replace all types of animal products are up, and now comprise a $3.7 billion dollar market, according to data from Nielsen&#8230; The research was commissioned by The Good Food Institute, which represents the plant-based foods industry&#8230; For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":754749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-754748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-veganism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=754748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754750,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754748\/revisions\/754750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/754749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}