Vegan Business Leaders

Vegan business is exploding on the stock market and on supermarket shelves. Beyond Meat’s wildly successful Initial Public Offering made global headlines. Beyond Meat’s Ethan Brown was the golden boy on mainstream financial networks, talking about how the future of food is meatless. The Good Food Institute notes “2019 marked another impressive year for plant-based foods! New data shows that total plant-based retail sales reached $5 billion and grew 11 percent over the past year—almost five times faster than total U.S. retail food sales. Dollar sales of plant-based foods grew 29 percent over the past two years, compared to just 4 percent growth for total U.S. retail food dollar sales over the same time period.” Now, meet some of the extraordinary business leaders behind this planet-saving trend.

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New York Stock Exchange
New Plant-Based Innovation ETF Launched

A New Plant-Based Innovation ETF for Those Who Want to Invest in the Vegan Future We are getting a step closer to the vegan world. The US investment management firm VegTech™ Invest Management Advisory has launched on the New York Stock Exchange a new Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF).

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Vegan Women Summit Hits LA in April!

Vegan Female Founders Rise Up!  Polls show that the majority of vegans everywhere are women. They are also the majority of customers of vegan products. So women should be in the driver’s seat when it comes to running the vegan business world too, right?

Tofurky’s Founder Seth Tibbott
Tofurky Founder Seth Tibbott’s Amazing Memoir

In Search of the Wild Tofurky! Have you ever wondered how a business misfit could pioneer plant-based foods before they were cool? Now, you can find out from Tofurky’s Founder Seth Tibbott. No, I am not being rude in describing him as a misfit.

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Vejii: New Online Vegan Marketplace

Vejii’s Mission: The World’s Largest Vegan Marketplace Vejii is the new online vegan retailer that allows you to easily purchase most of the vegan products you need. Created just a few months ago, it’s growing very fast. And, if it keeps growing, it may expand to other countries and become the world’s largest vegan marketplace.

Vegan Bacon Minus The Pig!

VEGAN BACON.  YOU CAN’T EVEN TELL THE DIFFERENCE! HoorayFoods.com makes vegan “bacon” that looks, sizzles, smells, and tastes like animal bacon. Hooray indeed. Finally, a plant-based “bacon” that is virtually identical to the kind made by slicing up animals as smart as toddler humans.

Eat The Change Impact Grant Recipients
One Million Dollars for Vegan Food

Compassionate Couple Gives Away One Million Dollars for Vegan Food Humanity is barreling toward a climate apocalypse and someone must stop it. Moving our food system away from animals to plants is one of the most important steps we can take to avoid this dystopian future.

Selection of Miyoko's vegan cheeses
Vegan Cheese Queen Miyoko Schinner Wins Big VS Dairy Industry!

Miyoko Schinner Wins & Will Keep Saying Vegan Butter! Miyoko Schinner, the Queen of vegan cheese, founder and CEO of the California-based Miyoko’s Creamery,  recently won a HUGE legal victory against the dairy industry and their allies in the California government.

Meet the Systemic Change Expert Fixing Our Messed-Up Food System!

Meet The Authority on Systemic Change in Food #TimesUp Big Food. Systemic change is urgently needed to fix the catastrophe that is…. modern-day food consumption! Everyone knows it! Even guys huddled in man caves watching ESPN and scarfing down hot dogs are aware that something is VERY WRONG with the way we eat.

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What The Heck Is Veganic Tech?

The Californian Farm Redefining Animal Sanctuaries What happens if you mix a nuclear engineer, a vegan farm, and an animal sanctuary? Something quite exciting and pioneering. Something we could call Veganic Tech. Anna Sweet is the CEO of a video games company.

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Can a Mushroom Designer Save the Planet?

Mushroom Designer Eben Bayer Discusses the Power of Mushrooms Could mushrooms provide the answer to a myriad of challenges facing the human race? In a word… yes!  Elysabeth Alfano of Plantbased Business Hour interviewed Eben Bayer, CEO of Atlast Food Co and Co-Founder of Ecovative Design.  He is a Mushroom Designer who is transforming shrooms into a variety of useful products.