U.S.-based food corporation Cargill is introducing a line of plant-based products to China after KFC’s highly successful plant-based nugget trial in several cities throughout the country.
In late April, three of Yum China Holdings’ KFC locations in Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and Shanghai carried plant-based nuggets mimicking the texture and taste of meat. They’re made from soy, wheat, peas, and locally-sourced water chestnuts. This trial came after a soft launch of Beyond Fried Chicken — KFC’s vegan fried chicken line in the United States — earlier this year.
The faux nuggets quickly sold out, showing that many people approve of plant-based food.
Following this success, Cargill decided to make more plant-based foods available in China. Beginning at the end of June, the company will offer products to retailers via its PlantEver line and will also cater to the food service sector.
Plant-based protein producers claim that many consumers are rethinking their food choices due to the coronavirus pandemic. As a result, the demand for plant-based products is surging even more than before.
“The launch is just the beginning,” managing director of Cargill Protein China Jackson Chan told Reuters, “and we look forward to continuing to innovate.”
Other companies are seeing success in China with their plant-based products, as well. Starbucks recently introduced a vegan lunch menu featuring Beyond Meat’s products at its Chinese locations.
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This is good news!
Go back to where you came from, I’ve yet to meet a decent Chinese person, you all are murders…… I expend slow death to your
I wouldn’t trust a goddamn thing China has or does!!!! You bunch of sorry ignorant pieces of no good pieces of shit, go back to where you came from and live and die there where your chink ass belongs, not one of you are god people unless your dead
I can hardly believe, that these morons will stop tormenting and devouring helpless animals.They disgust me! I will never forget and forgive this rabble for what they did to the helpless animals! The WRONG suffered and died!
Asian and European countries should grow their own food. It is unacceptable that vegans would advocate a product myde by the “Cargill” company since the soybeans are almost certainly from South America and that means that they are responsible for the destruction of tropical forests, extermination of plant and animal species and genocide against indigenous peoples.
Very good point and the best comment so far! Tunnel vision unfortunately causes most of us to ignore the consequences of our actions and choices, as long as the “feel good” on the surface.
The meat processing plants need to become more humane in how they kill and prepare the meat. The meat processing plants need to be cleaner.
I am not criticizing your comment, but if you think about it, it is amazing to see how our culture cleans up its language and not its acts. As the killing of animals for food becomes ever more automated, ever faster and more inhumane, the industry calls such killing “harvesting”, as if cows were carrots, and slaughterhouses “meat processing plants”, as if they were processing mail, because people have come to confuse words and symbols with reality and believe they can hide such reality with more palatable words.There is nothing worse than the dishonesty expressed in such “clean” language.
Please let it spread right across Asia. While processed food isn’t ideal, anything that saves animals’ lives has to be a good thing. Wean people off flesh then introduce a more healthy diet.
No thanks…! What this world absolutely does NOT need is any more “processed foods”. Natural foods are for Real living humans, animal proteins are healthier than anything coming out of a laboratory. Humans evolved to the species we recognize now as humans by EATING ANIMALS. Not all and every animal just livestock, fish, and poultry. Stay human eat meat.
I agree. We have for better or worse ecolved to eat meat.
Yes of course, stay human and eat the meat of tortured animals.
Wonderful — the more VEGAN people, the better our world — keep at it — by the way, “Beyond” products are very delicious AND nutritious.
Es ist traurig, das man für die Tiere sowenig tut. Es sind die besten Freunde des Menschen, die bei guter , liebevoller Erziehung niemanden was zu leide tun und lieber ihr eigenes Leben opfern.
Deshalb fordere ich allen Tierquälern – und
Tötern yo richgig harte Strafen zu geben, das es ihnen weh tut und sich das überlegen es wieder zu tun. Es sind fühlende Wesen wie wir Menschen nur das sie nicht für sich spre henkönnen, deshalb tuen wir das die , diese
Tiere lieben. Die Tiere müssen Kastriert werden , damit sie sich nicht weiter vermehren können.
Lets hope that people will get used to eating less meat and do away with factory cruel farming.
How long do you think that will last? Two days maybe?
WHOO HOO… AWESOME
Good. Stop eating meat
V. G..
I hope this is correct but more than that I hope it’s because people are regretful for their disgusting behaviour towards animals and not because they’re afraid of coronovirus because being afraid for their own saftey rather than having compassion for animals doesn’t help them learn to respect life of animals and learn that we are here for the protection of animals!
Well that’s good news. Wish they would do that here!
Very good news…but it doesn’t mean that these large companies are manufacturing healthy products. Unless you choose GMO-free, pesticides-free, colorants and preservatives-free organic vegan products, you might be saving the animals but you are still not protecting your own health.
wow now i can eat at KFC