Substitutes changing appetite for pork

Plant-based protein makers are hoping to take a bite out of the massive meat market in China and throughout Asia

The Year of the Pig has failed to offer much comfort to the hog industry on the Chinese mainland, which has been ravaged by African swine fever, and some are betting big on making it the year plant-based meat substitute takes off in the world's second-largest economy and throughout Asia.

David Yeung, founder of social enterprise Green Monday, plant-based concept store Green Common, and Right Treat, hopes to take a bite out of the massive meat market in China, the world's biggest producer and consumer of pork, with "Omnipork."