A food and ag economist says increased investments in alternative proteins could be very disruptive to traditional agriculture.
Jayson Lusk with Purdue University says while plant-based meats use ag commodities like soybeans, they do not require enough to use the roughly 80 million acres grown annually in the US- 85% of which goes to livestock.
“Two-thirds or so of the value of the receipts from farm production are tied up in animal protein production.
