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Beyond Meat Cuts More Jobs as Plant-Based Meat Demand Cools.


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2022 Oct 13, 1:38pm   5,799 views  50 comments

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Plant-based burger maker Beyond Meat Inc. is conducting further layoffs following a round of cuts made in August, according to people familiar with the matter.

It wasn’t immediately clear how many workers were terminated. Beyond Meat asked employees to work from home on Thursday and restricted access to documents, according to some of the people, who asked not to be named because they weren’t authorized to speak for the company. Management then set up individual calls to inform some workers that they were losing their jobs. Some cuts came in the research and development department.

The company didn’t respond to inquiries from Bloomberg.

Beyond Meat, which had about 1,100 employees at the end of last year, previously eliminated about 40 positions in August as part of a broader cost-cutting plan. The onetime Wall Street darling faces mounting challenges as rising inflation drives consumers toward less-expensive animal proteins and competition intensifies. Major fast-food partnerships have failed to gain traction, and the company has struggled to ramp up production.

It suffered another blow last month when its chief operating officer, who had been hired from Tyson Foods Inc., was suspended after being arrested. A supply-chain executive, who had been hired at the same time, has also departed.

The plant-based meat category has also broadly cooled off. Retail sales of refrigerated meat alternatives fell almost 11% in the 12 months ended Oct. 2 from the previous period, IRI data show. Beyond Meat-branded sausage substitutes fell 19% in the period, while the company’s plant-based patties dropped 27%. Its faux meatballs experienced growth, however, with sales rising 19%.

Earlier this month, JBS SA, the world’s largest meat supplier, said it would discontinue operations at its US plant-based unit Planterra. Closely held Impossible Foods Inc. dismissed about 6% of its 800-person workforce, though it has said that its sales are growing.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/beyond-meat-cuts-more-jobs-193943444.html

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15   Tenpoundbass   2022 Oct 14, 7:06am  

Patrick says


Started watching Gordon Ramsay cooking videos over the last few days, and learned a ton of things I had no clue about.


Watch Jacques Pépin, Jean Pierre and Martha Stewart, Gordon couldn't be their dishwasher.
I love watching Chinese Cooking videos that are made in China. I've watched a lot of them, and learnt many techniques that even makes Western recipes better. Asian food is 80% technique, ingredients and ratios aren't as important as technique. By now, I'm disappointed every time I get Chinese somewhere it's no where near as good as I can make at home. Even my friends always say, "You Chinses taste way better than what we get from take out."

Which is weird, because by my own standards, I wouldn't order my own food from a Chinese restaurant if I walked in their and saw round eyes cooking and running the joint.
I like authentic color correct people cooking my ethnic food.
16   Tenpoundbass   2022 Oct 14, 7:24am  

I'm simplifying recopies for people who read code, and to make understanding code easier for people who can't.
What do you think?

CookTemp(Preheat(375F)){}
MixBowl(Large)
BakePan(Loaf)

Main(){

Batter = Mix(MixBowl)
Pour(batter)
Time = set interval 45 minutes
Timer(Time){
Bake(CookTemp)
}
Mix(Bowl){
Ripe Bananas = 2
Egg =1
Flour = 2 cups
Baking soda = .50 teaspoon
Baking Powder = .50 teaspoon
Walnuts = .50 cup
Salt = .25 teaspoon
Sugar = .75 cup
}

Pour(Batter){
Greased(BakePan)
}

Bake(CookTemp){
Bakepan
}
17   Shaman   2022 Oct 14, 8:34am  

Looks like it will make some good banana bread.
18   Patrick   2022 Oct 14, 9:27am  

Tenpoundbass says

I'm simplifying recopies for people who read code, and to make understanding code easier for people who can't.


I've been meaning to read the book "Cooking for Engineers" but when I searched, I found this site instead:

http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/107/Creamy-Garlic-Mashed-Potatoes

Not quite the same idea, but he uses cool diagrams:



Unrelated to cooking, but related to diagrams: I've been studying my Aunt Millie's old Latin textbook and realized that Latin is almost a crystalline kind of structure, where it's all about the endings, which have a lot of different dimensions to them. For example, every verb has person, number, tense, voice, and mood. If you cold just visualize those all at once somehow, it might be easier to "see" the language as a whole. You've got three physical dimensions and could use color for one more, but would still be short one.

Or maybe Latin could be described using JSON.
19   Hircus   2022 Oct 14, 9:29am  

Patrick says

I've been meaning to read the book "Cooking for Engineers"


Ive wanted a cook book that delves into the science / the why of cooking instead of just giving me mindless instructions and shaking a finger at me if I "didnt follow the instructions exactly". Maybe this is it.
20   Patrick   2022 Oct 14, 10:20am  

Another thing about recipes that annoys my inner autist: when they tell you to add something, they never say HOW MUCH in the same spot. I don't want to constantly look back up at the top of the recipe for the amounts. They should be right there, as in "add 2 Tbsp of butter" and not "add butter".

The way recipes are written is O(n) amount lookups instead of O(1), for people familiar with Big-O notation. Each ingredient requires a superfluous lookup. Maybe I worked on performance stuff for too long.

My wife will write a grocery list as a list. I don't like that so if I'm going to shop I always transcribe the list onto a hand-drawn map of the store. Then I can make one pass through the list as one pass through the store instead of having to scan the list over and over.
21   Hircus   2022 Oct 14, 10:38am  

Patrick says


I always transcribe the list onto a hand-drawn map of the store


I've wanted mapping features for stores for soooo long. I worked retail many years ago and became familiar with how basically every store uses "plan-o-grams" which are computer maps of how each aisle and shelf/peg is to be laid out and how much space to be given to each product. So stores have had these "where is each product located" databases for decades.

I think I came up with the idea in 2002 that all big stores with websites should make it easy for customers to find products. Looking at a product page online? It should tell you the aisle and section of the product for your selected store. Many big box stores finally started doing this over the past 5 years, but it's wayyyyy overdue. But they still suck at it. Like walmart, home depot, lowes etc... they will tell you the aisle and section of the product, but they do not make it easy to find a map of the store - you need to dig for it, if its even available. This sucks - the damn map should be a simple fucking tooltip when you hover over the aisle/section number, so you can get an idea of where in the store that location is. So often I need to drive across town, or maybe I'm out of state, and not familiar with this particular store, and dont know where the fuck aisle 37 is. And some aisle names/numbers are not obvious where they're located. Espescially seasonal aisles and their cryptic naming conventions for a stack of products near checkout in the middle of the walkway - you simply need to ask to find where those are because the names arent helpful. Providing customers with a map is so simple to do, and so useful, but they dont do it and it frustrates me.

Additionally, maps could be used to provide a shopping path - fill your cart with store items you want, and they could easily draw a blue line with arrows showing you a sensible or optimal path to walk through the store to gather your items.

Even further, while this is a bit different topic, I think they could easily fill a store with inexpensive bluetooth location beacons on the ends of each aisle and have a store app use those beacons to help pinpoint where you are on a map. It could be used to help people navigate, and also show nearby products in certain contexts. I can think of all kinds of uses for a precise location tech like this.
22   Ceffer   2022 Oct 14, 10:42am  

Patrick says

Then I can make one pass through the list as one pass through the store instead of having to scan the list over and over.

That's a good suggestion. I'll have to remember that one. Chalk one up for the Team Autist.
23   Patrick   2022 Oct 14, 10:49am  

Hircus says

they do not make it easy to find a map of the store


Maybe I should make a crowdsourced website which posts maps of stores for people to print on 8.5 x 11 paper.

Hircus says

maps could be used to provide a shopping path


Lol, optimizing that path is actually a notoriously hard problem, the Traveling Salesman problem. But perfect optimization is not that important here.
24   B.A.C.A.H.   2022 Oct 14, 4:47pm  

Trimming The Fat.
25   Booger   2022 Nov 22, 8:28am  

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/beyond-meat-internal-reports-describe-130008806.html

Beyond Meat Plant’s Dirty Conditions Revealed in Photos, Documents
26   AmericanKulak   2022 Nov 22, 9:09am  

B.A.C.A.H. says

Trimming The Fat.

Trimming the Phytoestrogenic Soy Protein and Seed Oils that make up Fake Meat.
27   Ceffer   2022 Nov 22, 10:21am  

And all this time, I thought 'Beyond Meat' was one of Rin's Montreal houses of sport.
28   Patrick   2023 Jul 31, 7:31pm  

https://wibc.com/111353/bioethicist-suggests-re-engineering-humans-to-become-allergic-to-meat/


Bioethicist Suggests Re-Engineering Humans To Become Allergic To Meat

This is one of those rare moments where we don’t know if we should make jokes or fear for our lives. Prepare yourself.

A viral video shows a bioethicist suggest we re-engineer humans to become allergic to meat in order to control climate change.

A video of a panel at the 2016 World Science Festival has resurfaced causing outrage from thousands on social media. S. Matthew Liao is speaking about reducing humanity’s footprint on the planet.

Liao says a major impact each of us can make is by limiting our meat. He then brings up the idea of altering one’s body to be allergic to all meat in order to help with our over consumption. An example is given of how a tick bite can cause alpha-gal allergy (red meat allergy.)

“There’s this thing called the lone star tick where if it bites you, you will become allergic to meat…That’s something we can do through human engineering. We can kind of possibly address really big world problems through human engineering.” ...

In the video Liao did not suggest we use a tick bite to alter our bodies, but rather said it was possible. Katz says he’s actually glad this was brought to light as it’s something we need to be aware of.

“There’s no way to look at this other than to say this is the ugliest concept. I’m glad it was brought up so we can note that it is ugly. But you will find people who approve of this and in that you will find the totalitarian.”
30   AD   2023 Aug 21, 5:27pm  

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Long live Boca Burger (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boca_Burger)

I remember eating them when I was a kid

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31   richwicks   2023 Aug 21, 5:53pm  

ad says



Long live Boca Burger (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boca_Burger)

I remember eating them when I was a kid


It never tried to claim it was the same as meat.

Have they stopped selling them? I liked them.
32   HeadSet   2023 Aug 21, 7:26pm  

Patrick says

Bioethicist Suggests Re-Engineering Humans To Become Allergic To Meat

If you are going to re-engineer humans, make them disease resistant, smart, and good looking.
33   Patrick   2023 Aug 21, 7:50pm  

And most importantly: defiant of authority!

Lol, as if they would include that.
36   Ceffer   2023 Nov 2, 5:22pm  

No addictive baby meat in the burgers, no launch pad to success.

Nothing assures that you will become viagra proof like a steady diet of vegi burgers.
37   KgK one   2023 Nov 2, 5:41pm  

Slowly they are trying to get ppl to eat bugs.
It's coming, saw kids magazine article how ppl eat bugs.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/tyson-foods-investing-big-bug-protein-new-venture

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/20/business/tyson-insect-ingredients/index.html

You can feed lot more ppl from vegetables than from animals. Energy from sun makes plant n vegetables. It takes long time n 100x food to get cow or chicken from it. So lot of energy loss.

Also you can get n spread lot of animal virus from uncooked meat. Have seen some new videos with little parasite worms.

How do people decide what meat to eat. Cow chicken ok but dogs n cats not good, horse not ok. ? In China they eat all, eel, snakes rats, dogs etc.

Though I think veg is healthy, I crave good chicken.
They make delicious fried chicken, I prefer to be semi vegitarian.
38   Misc   2023 Nov 2, 6:52pm  

I ate some Broccoli the other day that almost made me turn vegetarian. It was sooooo good just wrapped in bacon.
39   just_passing_through   2023 Nov 2, 8:47pm  

Misc says

I ate some Broccoli the other day that almost made me turn vegetarian. It was sooooo good just wrapped in bacon.


If you want to turn it into a superfood sprinkle a tiny bit of mustard powder on it. It replaces the myrosinase that denatures when you cook it. Myrosinase converts glucoraphanin into sulfsulforaphane (the super food part) when you chew raw broccoli or even better (and tastier) chew the sprouts.

May be the best super food available. If not it's tied with other stuff.
40   Patrick   2023 Nov 2, 9:05pm  

@just_passing_through How does it affect the flavor?
41   komputodo   2023 Nov 2, 9:11pm  

Patrick says

I don't like that so if I'm going to shop I always transcribe the list onto a hand-drawn map of the store.

Really? Has she ever commented on this routine?
42   komputodo   2023 Nov 2, 9:15pm  

Hircus says

I think I came up with the idea in 2002 that all big stores with websites should make it easy for customers to find products. Looking at a product page online? It should tell you the aisle and section of the product for your selected store.

I think they would rather have you browse the whole store
43   Patrick   2023 Nov 2, 9:42pm  

komputodo says

Patrick says


I don't like that so if I'm going to shop I always transcribe the list onto a hand-drawn map of the store.

Really? Has she ever commented on this routine?


She says she doesn't care, as long as I come back with the right groceries.
44   just_passing_through   2023 Nov 3, 8:00am  

Patrick says

just_passing_through How does it affect the flavor?


I haven't noticed any change. Use just a tiny bit. I did dump it on there the first time and gave myself a hell of a stomach ache.
46   zzyzzx   2023 Nov 8, 6:41am  

https://www.thestreet.com/restaurants/beloved-fast-food-chain-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy

Vegetarian fast-food chain files for bankruptcy

Boston-based vegetarian fast-food restaurant chain Clover Food Lab on Nov. 3 filed for Chapter 11 Subchapter 5 bankruptcy in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for District of Delaware to reorganize its business as its sales have not fully recovered from the effects of the Covid pandemic, according to its website.
47   komputodo   2023 Nov 8, 1:24pm  

KgK one says

I prefer to be semi vegitarian.

can a person be semi vegetarian? Wouldn't that be like being a little pregnant?
49   Booger   2023 Dec 17, 11:53am  

Any of you guys short this?

https://www.macroaxis.com/invest/ratio/BYND/Probability-Of-Bankruptcy

Current Beyond Meat Probability Of Bankruptcy

50%
50   Tenpoundbass   2023 Dec 17, 1:31pm  

If I were a vegan I'm sure I could make some delicious bean patties and fritters, that would be quite marketable
It amazes me, that time and time again, vegans try to open a food stall/joint selling prepackaged mystery crap trying to pretend to be meat.
I used to date a woman that loved going to Morisons(a once very good ala carte buffet) she would just get a bunch of vegetable sides.
Collard Greens, Crème Corn, Lima Beans, and Brussel Sprouts maybe a salad. Not because she was a vegan, but because they were damn delicious and she could make chicken and roast beef at home. But when you can pig out on a bunch of good tasting vegetables?
I've never seen a vegan restaurant that offered up fare as appealing as her spread she brought to the table.

Vegans are fucking retarded.

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