Meet the people for whom meatless food is a force for political and social change.

The long read: It has left the beige-tinted margins and become social media’s most glamorous look. But why does veganism still provoke so much anger?

A vegan childcare worker says he was left feeling sick to his stomach after receiving real ham on a pizza that was supposed to be plant-based. Patrick Hukins, from Sydney, ordered lunch from Domino's on Monday, but quickly realised something was wrong when he starting eating the supposedly vegan meal.

When Joanna Chang first cut all animal products from her life 25 years ago, there were so few vegan foods available that she had to eat cereal with orange juice instead of a milk alternative. "Vegan used to be a dirty word and now it's not," Chang said over the phone from Nice Shoes, the Vancouver-based vegan shoe retailer she co-owns with her husband.

Enjoy, a meatless roast.

The increasing popularity of plant-based and vegan diets risks lowering the intake of a nutrient critical for brain health that is mainly found in animal foods, a nutritionist has said. Moving away from diets rich in animal products could have "unintended consequences" for the consumption of choline, according to an article in respected medical journal BMJ, entitled: "Could we be overlooking a potential choline crisis in the United Kingdom?"

These fried eggs are made out of plants. The cruelty-free, cholesterol-free, vegan fried eggs are made by Be Leaf Corporation.

A study of more than 12,000 people by Johns Hopkins University also found opting for vegetables over meat reduced their risk of dying early from any cause by a quarter.

Australians are among the biggest meat eaters in the world, but that’s changing. Recent converts to diets with less meat explain their motives

When it comes to catering for vegans, LEON has long been ahead of the game. But the healthy fast food chain has upped the ante with its latest plant-based additions, which include nuggets and soft-serve ice cream.

A video recently doing the rounds on Facebook included a segment from the BBC comedy quiz show QI. The video asks which of avocados, almonds, melon, kiwi or butternut squash are suitable for vegans. The answer, at least according to QI, is none.

Like other facets of the mushrooming plant-based foods industry, sales of vegan cheese have skyrocketed in recent years

Doctors in Belgium have called for parents who raise their children as vegans to face prosecution after a number of deaths in schools, nurseries and hospitals.

The Impossible Whopper is now available in four cities. Burger King is now selling the meatless, plant-based burger patty at some restaurants in Miami; Columbus, Georgia; and Montgomery, Alabama; the burger chain announced on Tuesday.

Impossible Foods, the alternative meat company that makes the Impossible Burger, announced today that it has raised an additional $300 million to take plant-based meat mainstream. The new round of funding was first reported by Reuters. It’s a big fundraising haul, one that reflects the intense investor demand right now for alternatives to conventional meat. The new round of funding values the company at $2 billion, insiders told Reuters.

It was past midnight when Maria Bahruth suddenly decided something that could make or break her small Downtown Boise restaurant. The High Note Cafe’s owner had gotten 15 minutes into watching “Dominion,” a graphic animal-rights documentary available on YouTube. Bahruth, who calls the 2018 Australian film “heartbreaking,” suddenly found herself baring her soul on the restaurant’s Facebook page.

Have you transitioned to a plant-based diet? Do you make an effort to reduce the amount of animal products you are consuming on a regular basis? If so, it is thanks to you that 500 million lives have been spared this year, and with continued awareness, that number continues to rise.

Beyond Meat Inc. stock skyrocketed Thursday in the best-performing public offering by a major U.S. company in almost two decades. Shares of the plant-based meat maker — which priced its IPO at $25 a share Wednesday evening — started trading at $46 a share shortly after noon on the Nasdaq, and surged to $65.75 by the end of the session, for a gain of 163%. Prices hit almost $73 a share at their intraday peak. Shares were up another 4% after hours.

Beyond Meat stock is busting out on its first day of trading. The company priced its initial public offering at $25, its shares opened at $46, and the stock was trading at about $67 per share late Thursday afternoon. The 140% one-day gain is better than the first-day performance of such hot recent IPOs as Lyft (ticker: LYFT), Pinterest (PINS), and Zoom Video Communications (ZM).

Beyond Meat, the plant-based meat company, started publicly trading Thursday morning, and the stock more than doubled in value right out of the gate — it’s now trading at $60, when just last week the company was estimating it would start selling at $19 to $21.