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jakob223
on Aug 26, 2019
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Beyond Meat and KFC partner to test fried plant-ba...
I imagine that that difference is going mostly to recoup R&D costs at e.g. Impossible right now, who is making the patties.
entropicdrifter
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Could also be due to scaling costs and farming subsidies on meat vs the plants used in Impossible Burgers.
JakeTheAndroid
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for now I expect you're correct. But in the long run it should ideally have really nice margins. Once Beyond and Impossible get a version that is as close as it needs to be, they can start focusing on supply chain and stuff like that.
jghn
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Agree w/ you & GP, and I suspect that the parent of my reply is actually correct. I just didn't think the linked article supported the claim.
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