Editor's blog: The alt-meat man cometh

Maybe it’s just because my Facebook is often overrun by MLM salesmen and -women, but I’ve always thought that “direct-to-consumer” was sort of a passé business model.

It calls to mind my parents, sitting around the table with the Colorado Prime salesman 30 years ago, using a pen and a printed form to order the ground beef and pork chops that filled up our freezer and fed our family of seven.

It…