Meat industry outlet Farm Journal’s Pork has highlighted that ‘animal agriculture can learn from vegan establishments’ in a recent article about an all-vegan drive-through in Encinitas, California.

In a piece titled Editorial: Lessons Learned from an All-Vegan Drive-Through, writer JoAnn Alumbaugh points out that ‘animal agriculture should play to its many strengths, while recognizing consumers’ tastes are changing’.

Alumbaugh has presented information about vegan drive-through Plant Power Fast Food, which took over a former Burger King branch earlier this year, and has opined: “There is no need to apologize or become defensive when sharing information about animal products. 

“And there’s no need to criticize the alternatives either.”

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The journalist also suggests that the animal industry should listen to what proponents of the vegan lifestyle have to say, and ask them questions about their food choices – instead of ‘writing them off as uninformed, uneducated followers’.

Alumbaugh adds: “The meat industry needs to remember that while we hear about animal activists, growth in the vegan community, and venture capitalists throwing money at alternative-meat companies, the vast majority of Americans want taste and value. 

“The real thing (maybe another good marketing term?) – meat – is the hands-down winner.

“Let’s pay attention to what restaurants offering alternatives are doing, and take a lesson or two from their marketing book.”

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