Alt-Meat Editor-in-Chief Lisa Keefe pulls back the curtain on the meat analogue business, revealing the big businesses behind some of the biggest brands.
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Trappist monks brewing beer in the 1600s (some of whose breweries still exist) would fit the definition of microbrewers, although it would take the mass consumption society of the United States and the UK to make microbrews a trend in the 1980s and '90s. American consumers were slow to pick up on the fact that many of their vaunted craft labels were, in fact, brewed by the majors: Anheuser-Busch, Miller, Coors and…