• Food

Beyond Meat and Pepsi Collaborate on Plant-Based Products

• Beyond Meat
• PepsiCo
• plant based

by Natasha Lasky, ODP Staff Writer Beyond Meat and Pepsi have announced a new partnership to develop and distribute planet-based foods and beverages. This union will allow Beyond Meat to distribute and market their plant-based meat alternatives on a global scale.  Why This Matters: With PepsiCo’s help, Beyond Meat will be able to bring new […]

• Food
• Politics

McDonald’s Announces New Meatless “McPlant” Burger

• Beyond Meat
• burgers
• carbon
• climate change
• McDonald's
• plants
• vegetarian

This week, McDonald’s announced that it was launching the McPlant burger, a completely vegan burger created by the fast-food chain and Beyond Meat. The release is a part of the company’s effort to reduce its carbon footprint, 29% of which can be attributed to the sourcing of beef.

Why This Matters: Food production accounts for about 30% of global emissions. Beef is the most climate-damaging food on the planet, producing carbon emissions at every step of the supply chain.

• Food

Have It Your Way: Meat-Free

• Beyond Meat
• Burger King
• Impossible Burger
• meat free
• meatless

We’ve written before about the growing popularity of plant-based proteins and how the companies making products such as the Beyond Meat Burger and the Impossible Burger are quickly growing and paving the path to their IPOs. While the popularity of these items is growing with the American public and interests have been piqued, they’ve still […]