Plant-based meat is doing industry during the pandemic– and it’s about to get even larger.
Beyond Meat has released a new e-commerce site that allows you to buy its meatless products, consisting of the popular Beyond Hamburger, right to your door. Beginning Thursday, you no longer need to get your faux-meat from a grocery store or dining establishment. You can order it online straight from the company and let it come to you.
Beyond Meat’s main competitor, Difficult Foods, debuted its own direct-to-consumer e-commerce site in June.
The items readily available for purchase on the new Beyond Meat website include meatless burger patties, meatless hamburger, and meatless breakfast sausages. Two-day shipping is included in all orders.
If you’re worried about the environmental effects of having items shipped to your door, that’s an excellent instinct, but Beyond Meat has actually done what it can to mitigate the effect. Your order will be available in a recyclable insulated shipping box by means of UPS’s carbon-neutral shipping– a program that supports wastewater treatment and landfill gas capture projects to balance out forecasted emissions from your shipment. (However, you need to understand that offset programs are far from sure-fire.).
Impossible Foods does not make guarantees about carbon-neutral shipping, however it does state it’s selected product packaging with minimal influence on the environment. It also notes that the ecological benefits of consuming a Difficult Hamburger instead of beef from cows significantly surpass any effect made by packaging. But if you choose to skip the shipping, note that the business has broadened its retail footprint 60- fold considering that the start
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