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These factors include consumer sensory acceptance of and willingness to pay for meatless meat products, technical feasibility of producing the products at scale, the economic feasibility of pricing them competitively with meat, and how the U.S. livestock market and U.S. agriculture lobbyists will respond to the new competition. Next, the analysis provides an empirical analysis of one of these factors – the U.S. livestock market’s response to competition from plant-based meat, using an examination of how competition between plant-based meat and ground beef would affect the entire beef market. The analysis estimates price changes for ground beef, fed steer, and choice and select beef markets using price elasticities and historic beef price data from 2013-2019. Joint-product theory and an OLS regression of historic beef prices indicate that these beef markets are linked, so plant-based meat’s competition with ground beef will affect supply and prices in the fed steer and choice/select markets. Beef price estimates are calculated for different scenarios in which plant-based meat captures 5% to 25% of the ground beef market. It is estimated that ground beef prices will drop 2.10% to 4.00% if plant-based meat takes 5% of its market, and its price elasticity of supply and demand would be -1.25 in the new market equilibrium.","abstract_html":"This thesis describes factors influencing the meatless meat industry’s potential to expand, and it estimates the U.S. beef market’s response to competition from plant-based meat products. The first part of the analysis provides an overview of the meatless meat industry and outlines factors that influence the new industry’s potential to capture market from the U.S. livestock industry. These factors include consumer sensory acceptance of and willingness to pay for meatless meat products, technical feasibility of producing the products at scale, the economic feasibility of pricing them competitively with meat, and how the U.S. livestock market and U.S. agriculture lobbyists will respond to the new competition. Next, the analysis provides an empirical analysis of one of these factors – the U.S. livestock market’s response to competition from plant-based meat, using an examination of how competition between plant-based meat and ground beef would affect the entire beef market. The analysis estimates price changes for ground beef, fed steer, and choice and select beef markets using price elasticities and historic beef price data from 2013-2019. Joint-product theory and an OLS regression of historic beef prices indicate that these beef markets are linked, so plant-based meat’s competition with ground beef will affect supply and prices in the fed steer and choice/select markets. Beef price estimates are calculated for different scenarios in which plant-based meat captures 5% to 25% of the ground beef market. 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