"It's like having the mines but not the steel industry" – Proteinish calls for policies that favour plant-based foods
The biggest problem for new vegan companies is the lack of basic infrastructure and the right kind of public support. That's the view of Peter Bolinder, one of the founders of plant protein company Proteinish, who wants politicians to step up.
"To compare with another industry, it's now as if we have the mines but not the steel industry," he says.
"To compare with another industry, it's now as if we have the mines but not the steel industry," he says.
For the entire value chain around plant-based companies working with plant protein to function well, farmers are needed to grow legumes and other crops with high protein content, actors who can extract the proteins, and someone who can turn them into end products.
But in the Swedish market, certain links in that chain are currently missing, according to Peter Bolinder, who founded the plant protein company Proteinish together with Isabelle Egholt Falck.