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Apr 2018
24m 14s

Fake Meat and its future

Yahoo Finance
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Tyson Foods is participating in its own disruption by buying a stake in Beyond Meat, a plant-based "meat company." Alexis Christoforous sits down with Tom Hayes, CEO, to discuss the diversification from it's primary business - beef and chicken.

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