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Re:50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to B... by Firerouge on Saturday February 13, 2021 @03:28PM (#26126524)
Why is that hard to imagine?

The plant based meat industry alone had a $4 billion market in 2020, about 39% of which is in the US, and it's total is forecasted to grow to $14 billion by 2027. [1]

While not a direct comparison, the US meat market is around a $7 billion annual market. [2]

[1] https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/plant-ba...

[2] https://www.ibisworld.com/industry-statistics/market-size/me...

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Re:50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to B... by TheRealSteel on Saturday February 13, 2021 @03:37PM (#26126617)
That doesn't make sense to me at all. You're telling me the plant-based meat market in America is 57% of the size of real-meat, and that the average spend on meat in the US is only 20$ per person per year?
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Re:50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to B... by casefields on Saturday February 13, 2021 @03:44PM (#26126689)
>The market value of the processed meat is expected to rise from 714 billion U.S. dollars in 2016 to over 1.5 trillion dollars by 2022.

https://www.statista.com/topics/4880/global-meat-industry/

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Re:50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to B... by Firerouge on Saturday February 13, 2021 @03:47PM (#26126727)
It looks like the ibisworld link might be conflating US exports of meat with the US market total
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