After peaking around the time of COVID, the plant-based meat industry has seen its sales drop (nationally) between 28 and 30 percent. No Meat Plant to Shut Down in StanwoodAccording to a WARN Alert from WA State Employment Security, and The Everett Herald, the British Columbia-based company now will have just one plant, in Coldstream. However, the fake meat boom, which ramped up just prior to COVID and peaked 3-4 years ago, began to fall rapidly. Why Specifically Did the Plant CloseThe company did not release any widespread news about why the plant in WA was closing, No Meat had moved into an old Twin City Foods building in Stanwood. According to the Daily Herald:"In 2023, the state Department of Commerce announced that No Meat Factory would take over the Stanwood facility after Twin City Foods closed the facility in 2017.