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SHOCKER: Plant-Based 'Fake Meat' Company CRASHES as Americans Choose REAL Food

Gary FranchiFebruary 21, 2026187 views
SHOCKER: Plant-Based 'Fake Meat' Company CRASHES as Americans Choose REAL Food
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The market has delivered a crushing blow to the woke food industry, with fake meat peddler Beyond Meat watching its stock collapse as Americans overwhelmingly reject plant-based alternatives in favor of real, honest-to-goodness beef.

Beyond Meat, which burst onto the scene in 2012 promising to revolutionize how Americans eat, is now learning a hard lesson: you can't fool the American palate with laboratory-created substitutes for the real deal.

This spectacular failure represents more than just bad business decisions—it's a complete rejection of the left's attempt to control what Americans put on their dinner tables. While coastal elites pushed their climate change agenda through fake meat, working families across America kept buying real steaks, burgers, and the traditional proteins that built this nation.

Woke Capitalism Meets Reality

The Beyond Meat meltdown is just the latest example of woke corporations learning that virtue signaling doesn't pay the bills. Americans don't want lectures with their lunch—they want quality food that tastes good and comes from American farms and ranches.

Under President Trump's America First agenda, policies supporting our domestic agriculture industry are putting real farmers and ranchers first, not Silicon Valley food labs trying to engineer the perfect politically correct protein.

"The American people have spoken with their wallets, and they're choosing real meat from real American farms over whatever concoction these companies are cooking up in their labs."

This collapse couldn't come at a better time, as the Trump administration continues dismantling the regulatory apparatus that propped up these ESG-driven companies while strangling traditional agriculture with red tape.

Patriots who've been buying real American beef all along are probably having a good chuckle right about now. While the fake meat industry crashes and burns, our ranchers and farmers are feeding America the way they always have—with honest food from honest work.

Maybe it's time for these woke food companies to learn what real Americans have always known: there's no substitute for the real thing.

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Gary Franchi

Award-winning journalist covering breaking news, politics & culture for Next News Network.

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GrillMasterDadVerified43 minutes ago
This is what happens when you try to fix something that isn't broken. God gave us cattle and farmland for a reason!
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CommonSenseCarlVerifiedjust now
I tried one of those plant burgers once - tasted like cardboard mixed with chemicals. My family has been raising cattle for three generations and we know what real food looks like. The market has spoken!
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FarmLife2024Verifiedjust now
Same here! There's no substitute for the real thing. These companies thought they could fool people but taste buds don't lie.
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LibertyCowboyVerifiedjust now
The free market wins again! When people have real choices without government interference pushing these alternatives, they choose authentic American beef every time.
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RedStateRealistVerifiedjust now
What's the stock price looking like for these fake meat companies? I'm curious if this is part of a broader trend away from processed alternatives.
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PatriotMom47Verifiedjust now
Finally! Americans are waking up to this fake food nonsense. Nothing beats a good old-fashioned beef burger straight from our local ranchers.
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TexasGrillerVerifiedjust now
Amen to that! Support our farmers and ranchers, not these lab experiments.