I’m glad Beyond Meat is on there, I can use that as an excuse to say no if I am ever offered one of their plant based hamburgers...
I didn’t see any shockers some are noticeably absent though.
From reports, it is apparently less than healthy to eat such 'fake meat' as it is both high in both fat and calories. I suspect that sooner or later, cloned meat that was never from a living animal might the better long term investment.
If you've read the list, a lot of these are "hip" internet darlings and startups involving service and software industries, some are high finance, and relatively few are retailers (the Gap and Dicks for example) and few are manufacturers. The retailers apart from Dicks which turned recently nasty due to their CEO and the fading Gap franchise, and manufacturers, aside from Levi Strauss which has been anti-gun for a very long time, seem to be sitting this one out and probably because they face mass markets that could significantly turn on them.
Venture funds, investment funds, etc. are not something that the average person interacts with nor most of these app makers or software companies who sell to corporations or wealthy individuals, not the average folk. For them, it is cheap advertising that these companies have the "proper wokeness" as to the current zeitgeist.
In part, like immigration, sexual practices, religion, art, etc., firearms have become involved as a topic in the culture wars which are primarily driven by the elites in society who wish to distinguish themselves from the average person as superior. One issue that democratic republics have is that elites in this country have to make up their own distinguishing marks as who is elite and who is not unlike recognition by the monarch through various honors or being a hereditary member of the aristocracy. Thus, they use public positions on current issues as a way to separate themselves and endless awards galas etc. Whether or not these policies work is besides the point, it is the thoughts that count. They would rather be wrong on policy than being marked of having "bad thoughts" and those seeking to rise up through the ranks via ambitions dare not voice the improper attitude.
For the most part, this is a list of companies that probably does not want nor desire the average gun owner's business and view it is a selling point to their market of corporate drones or leftist tech lords to hold such attitudes. End consumers probably make up little of their business or their product is "free" such as apps like Pintrest where they sell your information to others. Dicks simply wants to exit the hunting business and firearm business altogether because I suspect that Stack's ego won't let him admit he made a mistake in his earlier actions. The Levi Strauss originating family has been anti-gun for a long time as mentioned above.