{"id":141868,"date":"2025-12-06T11:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=141868"},"modified":"2025-12-06T11:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T11:00:11","slug":"flash-in-the-pan-how-chinas-plant-based-meat-craze-fizzled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=141868","title":{"rendered":"Flash in the pan: how China\u2019s plant-based meat craze fizzled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostOnly a few years ago, the notion that Beyond Meat \u2013 the former poster child of the plant-based meat industry \u2013 would shut down its operations in China seemed unthinkable. At the height of the brand\u2019s popularity, its label could be found adorning heavily promoted products at restaurants and grocery stores across major cities.<br \/>\nMany observers speculated that the alternative meat company and others like it had found the next great success story in the country\u2019s rapidly evolving consumer market.<br \/>\nBut&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3335365\/why-chinas-consumers-found-hype-around-plant-based-meat-hard-swallow?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostOnly a few years ago, the notion that Beyond Meat \u2013 the former poster child of the plant-based meat industry \u2013 would shut down&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141868"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}