Chikopa cha vegan cha Mashroom

Chikopa cha bowa chabweretsa phindu lalikulu. Nsalu yopangidwa ndi bowayi yatulutsidwa mwalamulo ndi anthu otchuka monga Adidas, Lululemon, Stella McCarthy ndi Tommy Hilfiger pa zikwama zam'manja, nsapato zamasewera, mphasa za yoga, komanso mathalauza opangidwa ndi chikopa cha bowa.
Malinga ndi deta yaposachedwa kuchokera ku Grand View Research, msika wa mafashoni a vegan unali wamtengo wapatali $396.3 biliyoni mu 2019 ndipo ukuyembekezeka kukula pamlingo wapachaka wa 14%.
Chikopa cha bowa chomwe chagwiritsidwa ntchito posachedwapa ndi Mercedes-Benz. VISION EQXX yake ndi galimoto yatsopano yokongola yamagetsi yokhala ndi mkati mwa chikopa cha bowa.
Gorden Wagener, mkulu wa opanga magalimoto ku Mercedes-Benz, anafotokoza kuti makina opanga magalimotowa amagwiritsa ntchito chikopa cha vegan ngati "chosangalatsa" chomwe chimachotsa zinthu zopangidwa ndi nyama koma chimawoneka chokongola.
"Amalozera njira yopitira patsogolo yopangira mapangidwe apamwamba osagwiritsa ntchito zinthu zambiri," adatero Wagner. Ubwino wake wapezanso zigoli zambiri kuchokera kwa atsogoleri amakampani.
Mmene zikopa za bowa zimapangidwira ndizoteteza chilengedwe. Zimapangidwa kuchokera ku muzu wa bowa wotchedwa mycelium. Mycelium siimakula kokha m'masabata ochepa, komanso imagwiritsa ntchito mphamvu zochepa chifukwa siifuna kuwala kwa dzuwa kapena chakudya.
Kuti chikhale chikopa cha bowa, mycelium imamera pa zinthu zachilengedwe monga utuchi, kudzera mu njira zachilengedwe zamoyo, kuti ipange pepala lokhuthala lomwe limawoneka komanso kumveka ngati chikopa.
Chikopa cha bowa chatchuka kale ku Brazil. Malinga ndi kafukufuku waposachedwa wa stand.earth, makampani opanga mafashoni opitilira 100 ndi omwe amatumiza kunja zinthu zachikopa zaku Brazil kuchokera ku mafamu a ng'ombe omwe akhala akuchotsa nkhalango yamvula ya Amazon kwa zaka makumi awiri.
Sonia Guajajara, wogwirizanitsa wamkulu wa Federation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB), anati zinthu zosadya nyama monga chikopa cha bowa zimachotsa ndale zomwe zimakondera alimi a ziweto kuti ateteze nkhalango.
M'zaka zisanu kuchokera pamene idapangidwa, makampani opanga zikopa za bowa akopa anthu ambiri osunga ndalama komanso opanga mafashoni otchuka kwambiri.
Chaka chatha, Patrick Thomas, yemwe kale anali CEO wa Hermes International, wodziwika padziko lonse lapansi chifukwa choganizira kwambiri za chikopa chapamwamba, ndi Ian Bickley, purezidenti wa Coach wa mafashoni, onse adalowa nawo Mycoworks, m'modzi mwa opanga awiri aku US a chikopa cha bowa. Kampaniyo yomwe ili ku California posachedwapa yapeza ndalama zokwana $125 miliyoni kuchokera kumakampani apadziko lonse lapansi omwe amaika ndalama, kuphatikiza Prime Movers Lab, yomwe imadziwika kuti imapereka ndalama zopititsa patsogolo ukadaulo.
"Mwayi ndi waukulu, ndipo tikukhulupirira kuti khalidwe losayerekezeka la zinthu pamodzi ndi njira yopangira zinthu yodziwika bwino komanso yowonjezereka zimapangitsa kuti MycoWorks ikhale maziko a kusintha kwa zinthu zatsopano," adatero David Siminoff, mnzake wamkulu wa kampaniyo, mu lipoti lake.
Mycoworks ikugwiritsa ntchito ndalamazo kumanga malo atsopano ku Union County, South Carolina, komwe ikukonzekera kukulitsa zikopa za bowa za mamiliyoni ambiri.
Kampani ya Bolt Threads, yomwenso imapanga zikopa za bowa ku America, yapanga mgwirizano ndi makampani akuluakulu angapo opanga zovala kuti apange mitundu yosiyanasiyana ya zikopa za bowa, kuphatikizapo Adidas, yomwe posachedwapa idagwirizana ndi kampaniyo kuti ikonzenso zikopa zake zodziwika bwino ndi zikopa za vegan. Takulandirani nsapato za chikopa za Stan Smith. Kampaniyo posachedwapa yagula famu ya bowa ku Netherlands ndipo yayamba kupanga zikopa za bowa zambiri mogwirizana ndi kampani yopanga zikopa za bowa ku Europe.
Fibre2Fashion, kampani yapadziko lonse yofufuza mafashoni a nsalu, posachedwapa yatsimikiza kuti chikopa cha bowa posachedwa chingapezeke m'zinthu zambiri zomwe ogula amagwiritsa ntchito. "Posachedwapa, tiwona matumba amakono, majekete a njinga, zidendene ndi zowonjezera za chikopa cha bowa m'masitolo padziko lonse lapansi," idalemba mu zomwe idapeza.