Not possible Meals has opened a cattle rescue farm within the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains to advertise the elements behind its plant-based meat merchandise.
On Earth Day, April 22, the 70-acre Not possible Ranch opened its doorways on a former cattle ranch in South Carolina.
Along with serving as a house for 9 cattle rescued from slaughter for consumption, the ranch represents a dedication from the model to demystify the elements and course of behind creating its plant-based meat merchandise.
“Not possible Ranch permits us to deliver customers on a journey straight to the verdant supply and current a tangible illustration of our farm-based roots,” Jeremy Davis, Not possible Meals VP of brand name technique, mentioned by way of e mail to Marketing campaign US. “It’s a residing, respiratory place on earth the place the brand new method of creating meat –– from crops –– replaces the previous method of creating meat.”
Whereas Not possible Meals won’t really use crops grown on the farm, which embrace soybeans, sunflowers and coconut timber, in its merchandise, it’ll doc each day ongoing operations on the ranch because it “facilitates the property’s transition away from conventional cattle ranching,” Davis mentioned.
Customers can comply with alongside on social media, making a method for them to “have interaction with our merchandise and model in a method they haven’t been capable of earlier than,” Davis mentioned.
“Everyone knows persons are paying nearer consideration to what’s of their meals and the affect it has on the planet,” he continued. “…Customers are very confused by how meat from crops is made, particularly once they can so simply draw a direct line between animals and animal meat that’s been established for millennia. As newer entrants to the meat sport, we felt an urgency to demystify the elements in our merchandise however in an approachable, enjoyable and tremendous social method.”
On Earth Day, Not possible invited customers to share strategies to call the six cows, two steers and one calf residing on the 70-acre ranch. The model additionally marketed its ranch efforts on 22 screens on the Oculus Transportation Hub in Manhattan.
A marketing campaign video options bluegrass music and opens with animation of cattle and a truck on a ranch. The model then encourages viewers to “comply with all of your favourite rescue cows and watch as we develop meat from crops.”
“Not possible’s mission has at all times centered round making a constructive affect on the planet in addition to on the individuals and animals who reside on it,” Davis mentioned. “The purpose is to disclose a extra visible and comprehensible connection between meat from crops and the constructive affect our merchandise have on each animal welfare and the surroundings.”
Not possible created the marketing campaign in home.