Climate Adaptation
Small English Town Set to Become Europe’s Fake-Meat Capital
- Boston mega factory to produce 55,000 tons of plant-based meat
- Meat alternatives need to close the price gap with real meat
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Surrounded by some of England’s most fertile farmland, the small town of Boston will become Europe’s fake-meat capital next month with the opening of a giant factory making plant-based burgers and sausages.
Plant & Bean Ltd.’s new factory, the largest in Europe, will eventually churn out 55,000 tons a year of alternative protein products. That will provide the faux-meat industry with the scale to narrow the price and quality gap with conventional meat products, according to Chief Executive Officer Edwin Bark.