Running a sustainable butchery or meat alternative company can be tough for all sorts of reasons: Costs are high and consumers are worn down by inflation, just to name a couple. But business leaders in that space say their biggest challenge is raising money.
Brent Young, founder of the Meat Hook, a sustainable whole-animal butcher in Brooklyn, said at the Fortune Impact Initiative Conference in Atlanta on Wednesday that the largest obstacle he faced was getting investors to kick in for his business, and the only ones he could get were venture capitalists.
