Thursday, June 25, 2020

McDonald’s quietly drops Beyond Meat burgers


McDonald’s Canada has quietly withdrawn its Beyond Meat plant-protein-based burgers after two trials in Southwestern Ontario.


It trumpeted the trials when they began, but said nothing when it took them off its menus in April.

It did say that it is no longer sourcing all of its real-meat burgers from Canadian packing plants, citing a COVID-10 shortage of supply.

It’s not clear whether it is now back to sourcing its burger meat from Canadian plants which, according to a CBC report Thursday, are now back to full production.

Tim Horton’s also trialed, then dropped, Beyond Meat’s burgers.