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 # Tyson Bets on Omnivores With New Alternative Protein Business

 

##### By Emily Chasan

 

 

 Mar 6, 2019 2:30 PM ET

  ![](/sites/default/files/styles/carousel_2x/public/images/Tyson_3-6-19.jpg "Photographer: Sam Hodgson/Bloomberg") Photographer: Sam Hodgson/Bloomberg 

 

[Originally published by Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-01/tyson-bets-on-omnivores-with-new-alternative-protein-business)

[Tyson Foods Inc.](https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/TSN:US "Company Overview"), the largest U.S. meat producer, is getting into the vegetarian protein business.

Food giants have been investing increasingly in vegetarian and vegan brands this year, as plant-based food sales grew 20 percent to $3.3 billion in 2018, according to [data](https://plantbasedfoods.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/PBFA-Release-on-Nielsen-Data-7.30.18.pdf "NSE Plant-based") from Nielsen and the Plant Based Foods Association.

The company hasn’t decided on brand names, whether to target food-service or retail, or what kind of protein it will use. But it says the move is part of a necessity for agriculture to evolve. Agriculture -- as one of the world’s biggest sources of global greenhouse gas emissions -- faces significant supply threats in a warming world.

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