Dove soap maker buys fake meat company The Vegetarian Butcher
Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch maker of Dove soap and Knorr soup has agreed to buy 'The Vegetarian Butcher', a Dutch producer of plant-based meat replacements. The company's products, which include "nochicken nuggets" and "chickburgers", are sold in over 4,000 stores in 17 countries. Jaap Korteweg, a ninth-generation meat farmer, became a vegetarian and founded The Vegetarian Butcher in 2007.n