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3 Things the Plant-Based Meat Brands Got Right
What Went Right – and What Went Wrong – With Plant-Based Meat Alternatives Plant-based meat alternatives captured the attention of meat consumers, the media and, well, me. I’ve been carefully watching these brands infiltrate the meat case for the last several years...
Meatless Diet a Privilege Only Some Can Afford
For the past few years, there has been significant conversation about plant-based diets potentially becoming the standard around the world and this intensified in advance of last year’s UN Food Systems Summit. Leading up to the summit, the EAT-Lancet diet, one which...
Learn How Alternative Meats Are Transforming The Meat Case
The meat case today looks different than it did just a few years ago. Branded meat, plant-based meat alternatives, claims, nutrition callouts, new packaging types – today’s meat case is in the process of a total transformation. New technologies, including cell-based...
If You’re Not Targeting Clean Eaters, You’re Missing Out
Does it seem like everywhere you turn, there is another so-called health guru promoting the latest and greatest diet trend? While some of these fads come and go, others have staying power. With health and well-being at center stage for consumers as we collectively...
Is the meat industry playing David to alt-protein’s Goliath?
I’m not a fan of plant-based “meat” products. So, as a marketer, it pains me to give them marketing credit for convincing people — our consumers — that their product is healthier and better for the environment. When protein becomes anything other than “real meat” in...
Cultured Meats: Who, How and When?
Cultured Meats: Who, How and When? In October, team members from Midan Marketing attended the virtual Cultured Meat Symposium to learn more about the cultured meat and poultry products which promise (or threaten) to turn our industry on its head. As a food scientist,...
Blended Proteins: A Healthy Balance For Retailers And Flexitarians
As consumer attitudes toward meat are undergoing significant changes, new lines of meat alternatives are hitting the shelves every day. These changes are being driven by shifts in the U.S. population toward younger generations with increasingly diverse ethnic profiles...
Cell-Based Meats: Coexist, But Don’t Roll Over
Picture this: An omnivore (who leans toward carnivore), a vegetarian and a vegan converge at 6:00 p.m. They stare in silence while taking turns scrolling through the Uber Eats app. Frustration builds… this group has elevated the term “dining nightmare.” The conflict...
What’s Really Driving Plant-Based Protein Purchases?
If you’ve been paying attention to the happenings in Hollywood, you might think that meat will have a starring role in the next big-screen blockbuster as the evil villain. Along with the Golden Globes serving a meatless entrée at its awards ceremony, prominent actors...
Plant-based meat: Resolve to keep it real in 2020
Happy 2020! It is time to make our new year’s resolutions – not the kind we have completely forgotten by Jan. 31, but rather those that create new habits with better outcomes. For many Americans, the gluttony of Christmas cookies and eggnog leads to a resolution...
There are two sides to every story; help tell ours
Every September we shut down Midan Marketing for four days and gather in one spot for our annual team meeting. This year our team descended on Tulsa, Okla. Our gathering always includes a day visiting places that help us educate our team members who do not have an ag...
Seeing the Potential in Plant-based Protein
Beyond Meat® and the Impossible™ Burger have successfully fought their way into consumers’ collective consciousness. While people are flocking to fast food royalty to try their Impossible offering, I am happy to stay home with my Angus beef burger. You see, somewhere...
Flexitarians: Don’t write them off
I must admit I was amused by the banter that followed Gregory Bloom’s blog a few weeks ago entitled, “The fake meat fad will fade.” The extended list of comments showed that even within the meat industry, there are varied and very strong opinions on the potential...
A Millennial’s Two Cents on Meat Alternatives
I am a 90’s baby, loved and known by all as a “Millennial.” I quote the late Kurt Cobain, frontman for Nirvana, not only for the generational icon he is but because he said it best, he said it for all of us and at times he had us screaming it at the top of our lungs,...