10 Stats That Prove That Plant-Based Is The Future Of Food

According to statistics commissioned from the SPINS market research firm, U.S. retail sales of plant-based foods rose 11.4% last year, for a total market value of $5 billion. Dollar sales jumped 29% during the past two years, the Plant Based Foods Association and The Good Food Institute reported, compared to 4% for total U.S. retail food dollar sal... See more

We've gone from soy to oat to almond to pistachio, and now we're back to just regular milk.The big picture: "By the end of the 20th century, it seemed like cow's milk was over," The New York Times' Julia Moskin writes.But in 2024, America's consumption of whole milk jumped 3.2%, while consumption of plant-based milk dropped 5.9%, The Times reports,... See more

Currently, the global food system accounts for nearly a third of greenhouse gas emissions, and land use for livestock production has been a devastating force of deforestation, using up 80 percent of global farmland to provide fewer than 20 percent of the calories consumed globally.