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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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?
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.
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. 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
British Entrepreneur Matthew Glover’s Journey to Compassion Famed vegan entrepreneur Matthew Glover gave a very revealing interview to Elysabeth Alfano of Plantbased Business Hour in July of 2020. You can watch Who is the Creator of Veganuary, Million Dollar Vegan and now Veg Capital?