UK Grocery Chain Sainsbury’s Publishes Report Saying Diets Will Be Plant-Based By 2025, Introducing A ‘Sin Tax’ To Reduce Meat Consumption

Sainsbury’s, one of the United Kingdom’s largest grocery stores, published their “Future of Food Report” in 2022, which detailed what the future of eating habits will be by 2025, 2050, and way far out in 2169. The report heavily insinuated and reported that consumers will be “flexitarian” and vegan in the short run, as over time meat no longer becomes a choice for people to eat, as technology and biometrics advance, and habits alter.

“We have always been at the forefront of introducing new food to the nation, turning once ‘niche’ items into everyday products,” Sainsbury’s said in the forward. According to their broad analysis:

Driven by unprecedented awareness of animal welfare, health concerns and ecoanxiety, more of us than ever could be putting the planet first when writing our
shopping list. It’s expected that a quarter of all British people will be vegetarian in 2025 (up from one in eight Britons today) and half of us will identify as flexitarians (up from fifth today). Sainsbury’s alone has already seen a 24% increase in customers searching for vegan products online, and a 65% increase in sales of plant-based products year on-year, as customers increasingly consider a vegan, vegetarian or flexitarian lifestyle.