{"id":28305,"date":"2020-02-20T13:01:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T12:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/?p=28305"},"modified":"2020-02-20T13:01:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T12:01:22","slug":"vegan-meat-was-most-popular-stand-at-meatfest-as-sunfed-debuts-plant-based-bacon-and-beef-to-groundbreaking-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/food-and-beverage\/vegan-meat-was-most-popular-stand-at-meatfest-as-sunfed-debuts-plant-based-bacon-and-beef-to-groundbreaking-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegan Meat was Most Popular Stand at MEATFEST as Sunfed Debuts Plant-Based Bacon and Beef to Groundbreaking Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to New Zealand brand <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20201101082022\/https:\/\/sunfedfoods.com\/\">Sunfed<\/a>, which last weekend was the <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/products-and-launches\/sunfed-becomes-first-plant-meat-brand-to-launch-at-meatstock-with-boar-free-bacon-and-bull-free-beef\/\">first ever plant based meat brand to feature<\/a> at Meatstock, their stand was the most popular of the whole (entirely meat-based) event, and the most common question from the carniverous festival-goers was, &#8220;Where can I buy this?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sunfed informs vegconomist that attendees were scrambling to sample the Boar Free Bacon BLT\u2019s and Bull Free Beef Sliders alongside the established favourite <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/companies-and-portraits\/sunfed-meats-expand-to-australia-with-cult-product-chicken-free-chicken\/\">Chicken Free Chicken<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Founder Sukul Lee says there was &#8220;overwhelmingly positive feedback from the most carnivorous demographic proves that to everyone else. Our team of eight couldn\u2019t make food fast enough to meet the demand across both days, it&#8217;s been a phenomenal success.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28307\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28307\" style=\"width: 1014px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28307 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/vegconomistcom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Sunfed-@-meatstock-2020-02-1024x465.jpg\" alt=\"Sunfed @ meatstock 2020 \" width=\"1024\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Sunfed-@-meatstock-2020-02-1024x465.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Sunfed-@-meatstock-2020-02-150x68.jpg 150w, https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Sunfed-@-meatstock-2020-02-300x136.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Sunfed-@-meatstock-2020-02-768x349.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Sunfed-@-meatstock-2020-02-1320x600.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28307\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9Sunfed Foods<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Sunfed Meats were a total hit at Meatstock Auckland, we\u2019re really glad we had them there. We want them at Melbourne and Sydney as well. <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/market-and-trends\/2019-the-year-veganism-went-mainstream-in-australian-retail\/\">The Aussies<\/a> need to try this.&#8221; said Meatstock Co-Founder Jay Beaumont.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo come away from Meatstock as the most popular stand is a groundbreaking achievement, especially given the odds were stacked against us. But Sunfed products spoke for themselves and skeptics had their minds blown wide open,\u201d says Sukul Lee.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28308\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28308\" style=\"width: 1014px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28308 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/vegconomistcom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Sunfed-@-Meatstock-2020-03-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Sunfed @ Meatstock 2020 03\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Sunfed-@-Meatstock-2020-03-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Sunfed-@-Meatstock-2020-03-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Sunfed-@-Meatstock-2020-03-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Sunfed-@-Meatstock-2020-03-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Sunfed-@-Meatstock-2020-03-678x381.jpg 678w, https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Sunfed-@-Meatstock-2020-03-1320x743.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28308\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9Sunfed Foods<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cult favourite Chicken Free Chicken has been available across New Zealand and <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/society\/disasters-such-as-coronavirus-and-the-australian-fires-are-an-urgent-call-to-plantbased-living\/\">Australia<\/a> since last year, and the new bacon and beef products are due to launch into market in March\/April 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sunfedmeats\/posts\/2516850751894925\">to huge demand<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe came to Meatstock to empower meat eaters with new choices. We have done that and more,\u201d enthuses the founder. \u201cNow to take this to the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to New Zealand brand Sunfed, which last weekend was the first ever plant based meat brand to feature at Meatstock, their stand was the most popular of the whole (entirely meat-based) event, and the most common question from the carniverous festival-goers was, &#8220;Where can I buy this?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7465,80,10770],"tags":[49400],"class_list":["post-28305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fairs-and-events","category-food-and-beverage","category-top-stories","tag-sunfed-foods","infinite-scroll-item","resize-featured-image"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/sunfed-1.jpg",556,380,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/sunfed-1-150x103.jpg",150,103,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/sunfed-1-300x205.jpg",300,205,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/sunfed-1.jpg",556,380,false],"large":["https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/sunfed-1.jpg",556,380,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/sunfed-1.jpg",556,380,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/sunfed-1.jpg",556,380,false],"mailpoet_newsletter_max":["https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/sunfed-1.jpg",556,380,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Emma Clarkson","author_link":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/author\/emma\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"According to New Zealand brand Sunfed, which last weekend was the first ever plant based meat brand to feature at Meatstock, their stand was the most popular of the whole (entirely meat-based) event, and the most common question from the carniverous festival-goers was, &#8220;Where can I buy this?&#8221;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}