We tried Beyond Meat in China. Did anyone else?
It was a little hard to find Beyond Meat’s limited edition veggie burgers. It was really hard to find Chinese customers eating them. In China’s consumer culture, “limited offers” from globally-recognized brands have the distinct potential to command long queues and consumer frenzy on levels associated overseas only with hardcore Star Wars fans. The collaboration between the buzzy American plant-based meat company Beyond Meat and fast-food giant Yum China did not command anything near those…
China must invest in Latin America for food security
China must invest overseas to ensure its food security, said speakers at the recent Asian Financial Forum. “China and India have to open to global markets like Australia, Africa, and Latin America, and invest in these countries’ agricultural production for food security,” said Fan Shenggen, the director general of the International Food Policy Research Institute. By 2020, China would need to import 100 million tonnes of grain each year, Fan said. Last year, it imported three million tonnes…
