Missouri Says Plant-Based Meats Aren’t Meat

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Used to be that you don’t win friends with salad (or vegetables), but times have changed, and the meat substitute market is now valued at $4.175 billion and is expected to grow to over $7.5 billion by 2025.

Alternatives like tofu and garden burgers provided vegetarians with a source of protein that could kinda’ sorta’ fill the void of animal protein, but companies like Beyond Meat and Impossible Burger are getting pretty damn close to the real deal, not in only in flavor but texture and appearance as well.