Vegan Watch: OmniPork vs Actual at Price Parity

Riding on the rising demand for alternative meat products, OmniFoods has recently announced a significant retail price reduction worldwide for its several of its flagship products, including the OmniPork Mince, OmniPork Strip, and OmniPork Luncheon. The price drop puts OmniFoods’ signature pork alternative products on par with pork meat. As described by OmniFoods founder and CEO, David Yeung, the price parity effectively means that consumers now have “an additional powerful alternative solution to tackle the global challenges of climate change, food insecurity and public health.” With factors such as the relatively high prices for pork compared to before the 2018 African swine flu, it would be interesting to see how much these price reductions will feed into the already growing public interest in plant-based alternatives.

Source: Vegconomist (2021). Product name and product specifications may vary in different international markets or according to halal requirement.

Look out for our post on price competitiveness of beef and its alternative vegan products next!

Protected Planet: Map of Protected Areas and OECMs

Protected Planet is an online database of protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs) as part of a joint project between the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

We explored the dataset offered by Protected Planet and took a look at the protected areas in Malaysia. The map was fascinating—Malaysia’s national parks like Taman Negara and the Endau-Rompin National Park were easily identifiable, along with other nature reserves and wilderness areas where human contact is strictly limited. While not displayed here, it should be noted that the dataset also offers marine-based conservation areas.

Out of curiosity, we overlaid the dataset with a map of rubber plantations by Transparent World (2015) via Global Forest Watch (GFW), and found that the two maps fit very nicely around each other with little overlap. We’ve also grabbed locations of saw mills based on search results on Google Maps just for kicks.