Meat-centric burger
chain Bareburger has announced it will ditch its elk and wild boar patties and add the vegan Beyond Burger to the menu.
The Beyond Burger will
join several other plant-based options, including a black bean burger, a quinoa
patty, and the Impossible Burger, making Bareburger the first restaurant to
offer both the Beyond and the Impossible burgers.
The good news
doesn’t stop there. The Beyond Burger will be served with vegan American
cheese, but be sure to swap the brioche bun for multigrain and hold the special
sauce to enjoy a 100 percent vegan burger. Bareburger will roll out the Beyond
Burger at its New York City restaurants, but the burger will be available at
all 39 Bareburger locations by the end of February.
We’re truly living
in a golden age of delicious vegan burgers, and their popularity is spreading. Recently,
TGI Fridays announced it would offer the
Beyond Burger at all its 465
locations. And last month, Food News Media reported that the Impossible Burger had outsold its meat-based
competitors when sold
alongside them. “The Impossible Burger is one of those rare menu items that
brings new customers in the door and keeps them coming back, says David Lee, Impossible
Foods’ chief operating and financial officer. The plant-based burger is now
sold at over 250 restaurants in 18 states.
But it’s not just burgers;
vegan food is taking over. According to a study by the Plant Based Foods
Association and
The
Good Food Institute, the plant-based foods
market topped $3.1 billion in sales last year. And the research firm Global Data reported that veganism in America
had increased by 600 percent since 2014.
This is great news
for the countless animals who suffer at factory farms. Despite being just as
smart and sensitive as the dogs and cats we adore at home, cows, pigs, and chickens raised and killed
for food are victims of horrific abuse: from painful mutilations and restrictive confinement to violent
handling and gruesome deaths.
What’s more, not a single federal
law protects animals at factory farms. The Humane Methods of Slaughter Act
pertains only to the slaughterhouse, providing no protection to farmed animals
for most of their lives.
As the harsh
realities of factory farming become more widely known, consumers are seeking
plant-based alternatives to animal products. In fact, according to Lux
Research, plant-based proteins are expected to make up a third of the
protein market by 2054.
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