Business Oscar Meyer to roll out vegan hot dogs, sausage with startup backed by Jeff Bezos

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Oscar Meyer to roll out vegan hot dogs, sausage with startup backed by Jeff Bezos​

Oscar Meyer is rolling out a plant-based hot dog and sausage this year with the help of a startup backed by Jeff Bezos.

The Kraft Heinz Company’s iconic brand is teaming up with TheNotCompany — a vegan-centered firm whose investors include Amazon’s billionaire founder — to introduce the “NotHotDog” and “NotSausage”, according to a statement from the company.

American consumers will have the option of plunking down $5.99 for a package of four plant-based hot dogs and $7.99 for four of the “NotSausages.”

In December 2022, Kraft Heinz and TheNotCompany jointly introduced a plant-based Philadelphia Cream Cheese to appeal to non-dairy-leaning consumers.

The Kraft-NotCo partnership has also yielded a plant-based “Kraft NotMac&Cheese” as well as alternative versions of mayonnaise (“NotMayo”) and cheese slices (“NotCheese Slices”).

Kraft Heinz, which is headquartered in Chicago and Pittsburgh, is banking on the popularity of the plant-based market to surge.

The conglomerate cited projections showing that sales of plant-based food products are estimates to rise from $8.3 billion in 2023 to $19 billion by 2030.

“We know people are hungry for plant-based meat options from brands they know and trust,” Kraft Heinz Not Company CEO Lucho Lopez-May said in a statement.

Judging from recent trends in the plant-based industry, Kraft Heinz has its work cut out for it in convincing consumers to ditch meat for good.

Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods have seen their share prices fall considerably since 2020.

The stock price of Beyond Meat, which reached a record high of nearly $235 a share in 2019, has plunged a whopping 96% since then.

Beyond Meat stock was trading at just north of $8 a share on Wednesday.

In the first nine months of 2023, the company’s US revenue dropped 34% on weak consumer demand.

Beyond Meat said in November it was cutting 19% of its workforce and considering cutting some products, like jerky, and reducing its operations in China.

The El Segundo, Calif.-based firm announced in late February that it was revamping its signature plant-based burger by reducing saturated fat by 60% thanks to a switch from canola and coconut oils to avocado oil.

The new products — Beyond Burger patties and Beyond Beef grounds — go on sale in the US this spring.

Inflation is one reason US buyers turned to cheaper sources of protein in recent years.

But US consumers’ doubts about the health of plant-based meat – fed partly by advertising from the meat industry – has also been a consistent problem.

 

[Android raptor]

She literally said processed meats aren't good for you, either.

I'd say they're worse than the veggie stuff since you get the additional ass cancer risk.

 

[Dialtone]

I'd say they're worse than the veggie stuff since you get the additional ass cancer risk.

Having lots of gay sex increases ass cancer risk as well, I think you should get tested.

 

[Android raptor]

Having lots of gay sex increases ass cancer risk as well, I think you should get tested.

But eating pussy doesn't

 

[JambledUpWords]

I'd say they're worse than the veggie stuff since you get the additional ass cancer risk.

You can get cancer from too much sun. I suggest you stay indoors at all times to avoid it, despite benefits of sunlight.

 

[PFM]

And actual hot dogs aren't? To say nothing about how eating too much red meat gives you ass cancer.

Vid related-ish

Good god you're retarded

 

[Otterly]

And actual hot dogs aren't? To say nothing about how eating too much red meat gives you ass cancer.

Yeah I said processed meats are not great. The association with colon cancer isn’t red meat per se it’s cheap highly processed meats - it’s probably the nitrates and nitrites mainly, along with the emulsifiers they use to give it a bearable consistency. All the studies that shriek about meat and cancer, ALL of them, use ‘meat’ as a proxy for cheap MRM stuff. Theres no separation of simple ‘slab of meat’ from the endless nasties. Theres no link between quality meat consumption and colon cancers. It’s not the meat, it’s the chem ails you have to use to make hideous mechanically recovered slurry edible. Most of those chemicals are also in the vegan crap too. Traditionally cured bacon and sausage is probably Ok as well.
Either eat meat, or eat veggie that’s made from actual veg. Bean burgers can be pretty good, but I’d not willingly eat the fakemeat stuff, it’s narsty

 

[Android raptor]

You can get cancer from too much sun. I suggest you stay indoors at all times to avoid it, despite benefits of sunlight.

The sun is the evil day star and I avoid it as much as possible. I become as nocturnal as possible from April-October for a reason.

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

And actual hot dogs aren't? To say nothing about how eating too much red meat gives you ass cancer.

Vid related-ish

Well, hot dogs are already questionable at best. I don't understand why you'd want them with even MORE questionable materials and chemicals.

 

[JambledUpWords]

The sun is the evil day star and I avoid it as much as possible. I become as nocturnal as possible from April-October for a reason.

Well, hopefully you get other sources of vitamin D. Otherwise, you’ll give yourself health issues.

 

[Android raptor]

Yeah I said processed meats are not great. The association with colon cancer isn’t red meat per se it’s cheap highly processed meats - it’s probably the nitrates and nitrites mainly, along with the emulsifiers they use to give it a bearable consistency. All the studies that shriek about meat and cancer, ALL of them, use ‘meat’ as a proxy for cheap MRM stuff. Theres no separation of simple ‘slab of meat’ from the endless nasties. Theres no link between quality meat consumption and colon cancers. It’s not the meat, it’s the chem ails you have to use to make hideous mechanically recovered slurry edible. Most of those chemicals are also in the vegan crap too. Traditionally cured bacon and sausage is probably Ok as well.
Either eat meat, or eat veggie that’s made from actual veg. Bean burgers can be pretty good, but I’d not willingly eat the fakemeat stuff, it’s narsty

it's both

Well, hopefully you get other sources of vitamin D. Otherwise, you’ll give yourself health issues.

Being outside when it's roughly the same climate as the inside of Satan's rectum also gives you plenty of issues.

 

[Battlefield2142EU]

Jeff Bezos is a faggot and a predator.​

 

[Fareal]

The only acceptable veg alternative to hot dogs I have found is boiled Quorn sausages. This is what IKEA use. It is also true that with enough ketchup, onions and mustard you can get most things down. (Discworld fans will recall CMOT Dibbler here.)

 

[Otterly]

it's both

It’s not. There are no studies that specifically look only at quality red meat. If you can find one, I’d like to see it. The IARcs definition of red meat is ‘everything’ then they single out processed meats which makes it look like there has been work on the two separately but there is never any work that shows it. The money is in demonising meat. I have never seen a study that specifically and controllably looks ONLY at proper meat. But every single study conflates the two.
ETA; even that link admits this, quote “
Is there a type of red meat that is safer?
A few studies have investigated the cancer risks associated with different types of red meat, such as beef and pork, and with different kinds of processed meats, like ham and hot dogs. However, there is not enough information to say whether higher or lower cancer risks are related to eating any particular type of red meat or processed meat.’
So there’s no data separating them. It’s processed stuff that’s bad

 

[Pilgrim of Grace]

nflation is one reason US buyers turned to cheaper sources of protein in recent years.

Faux meat is not cheap. It undergoes far more complicated manufacturing processes than even a heavy processed meat such as hot dogs. The health benefits tend to be negated entirely by these processes, as well.

All for having options. The Impossible Whopper is OK and vegetarian white castle sliders are actually pretty good. But I see they're offering fake mayo...if you've ever had vegan mayo, you know how absolutely vile that stuff is.

 

[Android raptor]

All for having options. The Impossible Whopper is OK and vegetarian white castle sliders are actually pretty good. But I see they're offering fake mayo...if you've ever had vegan mayo, you know how absolutely vile that stuff is.

All mayo is vile, it's Satan's jizz

 

[Asian tech support]

$5.99 for a package of four plant-based hot dogs and $7.99 for four of the “NotSausages.”

you can charge meat prices for it.

These things are more expensive than all beef dogs and you only get four of em. I can get six quality bratwursts or Italian sausages from the local butcher for $6. The price alone is a roadblock.