Plant-based meat company sets up shop in Boulder

BOULDER — If environmentalists, clean food advocates and some investors are to be believed, the plant-based meat market could disrupt the global food supply’s reliance on animal products and buoy the already-strong plant-based milk industry. Two Boulder companies, one well-established and one almost brand-new, think they can grab a slice of the burgeoning industry in the home of perhaps the most famous soy milk brand in America.

Over the summer, the Swiss investment bank UBS projected the plant-based meat market could see compounded annual growth of 28 percent as those products become cheaper to make and more…