New products from the Annual Meat Conference 2020 in Nashville, Tenn.

This spring Applegate is bringing a new product line to retail shelves.

Even though more people are increasingly adding plant-based meat alternatives into their diets, meat consumption worldwide in the U.S. is still expected to increase per year through 2023. 

The meat industry faces many challenges, particularly as millennial buying power grows and millennial attitudes toward health, the environment and animal welfare begin to dominate.