Meati carves 5% of workforce on ‘path to scalability’ 

BOULDER — Meati Foods, a trade name for mushroom-based whole-food proteins producer Emergy Inc., laid off 17 workers, or about 5% of its staff, this week.

The layoffs come less than six months after the firm opened a 100,000-square-foot production facility in Thornton that the company has dubbed its “mega ranch.”

“Building a disruptive company with a novel product from the ground up is not straightforward. It requires consistent agility to adapt, and we have applied incredible learnings to our operations to not only produce what it takes to deliver our near-term growth but also support future ranch designs,” the company said…