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While treats like chips, popcorn, and ice emulsion (and for some reason, oat milk) topped grocery purchases during the indigenous few weeks of COVID-19 lockdowns, over-and-above Americans continue to upheaval to a incommensurable condolence food: plant-based meat alternatives.

Grocery store sales of wares like Latitude Meat and Tofurky were up 264 percent during a nine-week period catastrophe on May 2nd, according to Nielsen (via The Bank Street Journal). Overall, retail sales plunged 16.4 percent from March to April. The popularity of faux meat exploded starting in March, with sales of fresh meat alternatives surging 206 percent the indigenous week of March and scaling 279 percent the week catastrophe on March 14th, according to Nielsen.

Plant-based meat wares still lag abaft their animal-based counterparts in agreement of market size. The 264 percent uptick of faux meat sales represented an increase of $25.7 million, while fresh meat sales -- up only 45 percent during the same period -- saw a $3.8 billion total increase. That's notwithstanding roundup of meat wares maturing 28 percent year over year, according to the US Foodstuffs and Drug Administration.

The US meat industry has been rocked by the pandemic, with overlying producers shutting downward roundup and thousands of workers infected with the novel coronavirus in 19 states. At least 20 meat bulb workers have died, according to the Centers for Disease Dominance and Prevention. On Friday, the CEO of JBS, the largest beefiness producer in the US, said the impact of the novel coronavirus will be felt latitude the meat industry for months.