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Feb 2023
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The Plant-Based Chicken Brand Taking Ove...

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Ross Mackay launched Daring in 2020 to remove chicken from our food system. In 2022 alone, the company helped save more than 500,000 chickens, and is daring to fix the chicken industry. 
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