Germany's potential less-alt-meat future

European consumers have embraced meat alternatives of all kinds well in advance of the rest of the world. And German consumers have been ahead of most of their EU brethren. That is shifting, however.

In that country’s recent national elections, the electorate took a definitive step to the right, politically speaking. Although the vote count has yet to be finalized, out as Germany’s multi-party government leadership went the Social Democratic Party,…