There’s Something Fishy in the Faux Meat Aisle

Forget the bloody burgers. Try some crabless cakes.
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Tyson Foods this fall took a 5% stake in Beyond Meat, the company proudly bringing customers fake meat that bleeds. With Impossible Foods' new "burgers," made for high-end restaurants, and a long list of more established companies, like Morningstar Farms, Gardein, Amy's Kitchen, and Dr. Praeger's, it's never been so easy to forgo animal-based protein.

Another piece of the nearly $5 billion plant-based food economy: vegan seafood.