The Dumb Money Driving The Plant-Based Meat Boom

In an exclusive excerpt from Raw Deal, investors see companies like Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods as a way to help save the planet. The problem is, they also want to get rich. Instead, they may die...

When Will We Stop Eating Animals?

Jacy Reese Anthis Jacy Reese Anthis Jacy Reese Anthis is a polymath and rising star in the fields of Effective Altruism (EA) and artificial intelligence (AI). He is a co-founder of the Sentience Insti...

Are Laid Off Employees At Beyond Meat The Scapegoat For Bad Management?

(FILES) In this file photo taken on November 15, 2019 Beyond Meat “Beyond Burger” patties made from … [+] plant-based substitutes for meat products sit on a shelf for sale in New Yor...

The Healing Company Acquires PepsiCo Backed Your Super In First Attempt To Consolidate The Wellness Industry

Your Super was born after cofounder Michael Kuech (left) was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 24, … [+] while his partner Kristel de Groot (right) began formulating superfoods and plant prote...

Gregorys Coffee Is A Plant-Based Mecca

With partners like Eat Just and Beyond Meat, Gregorys Coffee has plenty of vegan options. Ted + Chelsea Cavanaugh If there’s any virtue within the food and drink industry that feels distinctly America...

Taco Bell Is Launching A Plant-Based Carne Asada Test With Beyond Meat

Taco Bell’s Beyond Carne Asada Steak made in collaboration with Beyond Meat. Taco Bell Taco Bell and Beyond Meat today announced they will test a new Beyond Carne Asada Steak offering in the Day...

Beyond Meat Suspends Chief Operating Officer After Arrest For Allegedly Biting Man’s Nose

Topline Beyond Meat suspended its chief operating officer Doug Ramsey, the company announced Tuesday, after the executive was arrested and charged Saturday with biting a man’s nose during a fight afte...

Beyond Meat Stock Hits All-Time Low. Inflation Bites Plant-Based Industry.

Text size Beyond Meat stock has fallen 74% this year. Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images Beyond Meat shares hit an all-time low Monday, falling for the fifth consecutive day and dragging down other p...

Champion Short-Seller Targets Software Company With Affinity For Bitcoin

Traders on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (Photo by Barbara Alper/Getty Images) Getty Images Laurent Condon, a professional trader in France, won my Short Sellers Don’t Have Horns short-sell...

Beyond Meat Plans to Lay Off 4% of Global Workforce

Beyond Meat is cutting 4% of its global workforce, saying the layoffs are part of its plan to reduce costs as inflation prompts consumers to buy less-expensive protein. The California-based company, w...

25 Stocks That Could Rise on a Short Squeeze

Investors betting against electric-vehicle stocks take note: Five of 25 stocks that short-selling research firm S3 Partners identified this month as being at risk of a short squeeze are in the EV busi...

Canoo, Lordstown, Other EV Startups Are at Risk of a ‘Short Squeeze’. Beware.

Text size Lordstown Motors is on a list of squeezable stocks. Courtesy Lordstown Motors Investors who have bet against the electric-vehicle industry should take note. Five of 25 U.S. companies that th...

The Best Income Investments Now

Income-oriented investors, it’s time to celebrate. There are suddenly many more opportunities—in areas ranging from junk bonds to real estate investment trusts—after the bear markets in stocks and bon...

Current Foods Raises $18 Million To Accelerate The Expansion Of The ‘Beyond Meat Of Seafood’ Across B2B And Retail

Current Foods believes it will play a critical role in improving sustainability and the overall … [+] ocean health. Current Foods If health concerns over traditional meat consumption, such as he...

Lifeless Market For Meatless Meat

The dream of plant-based chicken, pork and beef appears to be withering. Ross Mackay and Eliott Kessas emigrated from Scotland with a dream. The longtime vegans founded Daring Foods, a meatless chicke...

Hope For The Formula Shortage, McDonald’s Leaves Russia, And Soaring Chicken Prices

Through the early weeks of the pandemic, fake meat sales grew some 200% at retail, and that hype helped drive the sector to secure more than $2 billion in funding. A lot of that came from venture capi...

Beyond Meat Stock Jumps on Hopes McDonald’s Partnership Will Be Permanent

Text size A McDonald’s McPlant Beyond Meat burger. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Beyond Meat stock jumped on Wednesday, following reports that its McPlant partnership with restaurant behemoth McD...

Buy Kellogg and Four Other Food Stocks for Rising Inflation. Two to Avoid.

Text size Beyond Meat patties on a shelf Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images Inflation is driving up prices at the grocery store, but rising wages and high savings rates have given consumers some abil...

Three Ways Questionable Claims Hurt The Plant-Based Foods Cause

‘Fact-checking’ sign is seen displayed on a laptop screen in this long exposure illustration photo … [+] taken in Poland on June 13, 2020. (Photo Illustration by Jakub Porzycki/NurPh...

Short Winner That Will Fall Further

Engineered plant-based burger patties from food company Beyond Meat are visible on shelves among … [+] other meat alternatives at a grocery store in San Ramon, California, August 28, 2019. (Phot...

Did The ‘Vegan Mafia’ Overhype Beyond Meat Stock?

Beyond Meat hamburger is seen in a pub in Milan, Italy, on January 04 2020. (Photo by Mairo … [+] Cinquetti/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images This week, Unovis Asset Managemen...

Unovis Asset Management Closes $166 Million Fund II, Warns Alt Protein Investors Should Avoid Ego Driven Valuations

Packages of “Impossible Burger” and “Beyond Meat” sit on a shelf for sale on November 15, 2019 in … [+] New York City. – Vegetarian alternatives to burgers and saus...

Stocks Tumble as Fed Minutes Confirm Rate Hikes Are Coming

Text size Interest rate hikes are coming. The stock market is taking note. Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images Stocks fell Wednesday after the minutes from the last FOMC meeting confirmed that the Federal R...

Beyond Meat Stock Is Climbing Because ‘Beyond Fried Chicken’ Is Coming to KFC

Text size KFC Beyond Bucket Courtesy of Beyond Meat Beyond Meat said its plant-based fried chicken product is coming to KFC locations in the U.S. next week. Shares of the meat substitute firm jumped i...

After 2-Plus Years Of Testing, KFC’s Beyond Fried Chicken Is Now Available Nationwide

KFC and Beyond Meat began testing Beyond Fried Chicken in August 2019. The product is now available … [+] at participating locations nationwide. KFC KFC is ready to bring its buzzworthy Beyond B...