Source: Lisa Fickenscher, NY POST, 4/7/21


Beyond Meat is opening its first factory in China in a bid to entice more consumers in the world’s biggest country to eat its plant-based burgers and other fake meats. The El Segundo, Calif.-based company said Wednesday that its new plant near Shanghai will be its first facility outside the US. Beyond Meat entered China last year through partnerships with Starbucks and Yum China, which distributes its fake pork, beef and poultry to supermarkets.

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