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#180 - Zero Egg: Meet The New, Great-Tasting, Cleaner-Label, Plant-Based Egg from 2023-05-15T14:27:06
This episode features Liron Nimrodi, the Co-Founder and CEO of Zero Egg. Animal friendly, sustainable, and a healthier alternative, Zero Egg is the plant-based egg for everyone. Zero Egg’s product...
Listen#179 - Plantega: Nudge Theory and Plant-Based Food from 2023-05-09T21:02
The episode explores Nudge Theory, a behavioral economics concept used to guide better decisions through minor environmental changes. Plantega, a company making plant-based food accessible via a un...
Listen#178 - Climbing the Plant-Based Slope of Enlightenment from 2023-04-18T20:37:27
This episode discusses the plant-based food industry's evolution and future prospects, following the Gartner Hype Cycle. Despite a disillusionment phase, consumer demand remains strong, with plant-...
Listen#177 - Elena Devis of Deliveroo on the Unstoppable Rise of Plant-Based in Takeout and Food Delivery from 2023-03-09T14:30
Elena Devis is on a mission to make Deliveroo the go-to delivery platform for plant-based food. As the Head of the Vegan Category, she works cross functionally with the Commercial, Marketing, Produ...
Listen#176 - Strong Roots: Tasty, Plant-Based Food Designed for Busy Lives from 2023-03-06T18:08
Samuel Dennigan is Founder and CEO of Strong Roots, a leading plant-based brand committed to planet-friendly food. Launched in 2015, Strong Roots are on a mission to provide tasty and environmental...
Listen#175 - Wildtype: Seafood Without Fishing or Fish Farming from 2022-12-13T18:08:49
Wildtype is a cultivated seafood brand on a mission to create the most sustainable seafood on earth, starting with their highly anticipated sushi-grade salmon. Aryé Elfenbein, a cardiologist, and J...
Listen#174 - Alexis Gauthier: A Michelin-Starred French Chef Embraces Vegan Food from 2022-11-22T18:46:29
Alexis Gauthier is a multi-award-winning French chef and successful London restaurateur. In 2016 he became vegan, and in 2021 he removed all animal products from his restaurant menus entirely. From...
Listen#173 - Victory Hemp Foods: Developing Super-Nutritious Plant-Based Ingredients from 2022-11-17T21:46
Chad Rosen is the Founder&CEO of Victory Hemp Foods, a business-to-business primary food ingredient processing company that develops innovative technology to manufacture hemp grain into premier pro...
Listen#172 - Chef Palak Patel: Inspiring Change with Good Food from 2022-10-18T22:05
This episode is co-hosted by Ben Davis, Content Chair and Strategic Advisor of Plant Based World Expo and was produced in collaboration with Plant Based World Expo. Palak Patel is a classically tr...
Listen#171 - Sonalie Figueiras on Food Culture, Food Tech, and Systems Change from 2022-09-26T18:14
Serial social entrepreneur&trends forecaster Sonalie Figueiras is the founder&editor-in-chief of Green Queen, an award-winning impact media platform advocating for social&environmental change throu...
Listen#170 - Pleese Foods: Authentic NYC-Style Pizza Cheese That’s Plant-Based and Allergen-Free from 2022-09-02T20:53:37
Kobi Regev is a passionate New Yorker who happens to be vegan. Over the past 5 years he has become an expert in the development and production of plant based cheese. Together with his wife Abev, th...
Listen#169 - Target’s Inclusive and Interconnected Approach to Plant-Based from 2022-08-23T19:45:59
Le’Spencer Walker is Director of the Merchandising Vendor Development (MVD) team and lends his skills and leads in many areas at Target. Currently leading a team that identifies, develops and on-bo...
Listen#168: Why the Future is Bright for Plant-Based in Foodservice from 2022-08-10T21:54
This episode features Vincent "Buddy" Gillespie, Director of Culinary at JBH Advisory Group. Buddy has thirty years of experience in restaurants and hospitality markets with past projects that incl...
Listen#167: Plant-Based Trends and Insights with Rodd Willis of Dot Foods from 2022-07-12T12:54:59
This episode features Rodd Willis, Director of Natural&Specialty at Dot Foods. His 25-year career at Dot Foods has included positions in sales, management, supply chain, and business development. ...
Listen#166 - WayFare Foods: A Family's Health Journey Inspires the Creation of a Plant-Based Food Company from 2022-07-07T14:50
This episode features Kelly Coffin, the Founder and CEO of WayFare Foods, a company that takes the finest whole, plant-based ingredients in the world, and turns them into products that are truly Si...
Listen#165 - Plant Based World Expo 2022: A Critical Moment for the Plant-Based Foods Industry from 2022-06-29T17:38
This episode features Julie Emmett, Sr. Director, Marketplace Development at Plant Based Foods Association and Sabina Vyas, Sr. Director, Impact Strategies at Plant Based Foods Association and is c...
Listen#164 - Matriark Foods: Creating Access From Excess from 2022-06-20T16:26:47
Anna Hammond is the Founder and CEO of Matriark Foods, a social and environmental impact food business that upcycles farm surplus and fresh-cut remnants into healthy, shelf-stable vegetable product...
Listen#163 - Karana: Meat From Whole Plants from 2022-06-01T19:13
Karana is a Singapore and US based company that makes meat from whole plants.Show Page: https://eftp.co/karana Newsletter signup: https://eftp.co/newsletterFollow us on Instagram Follow Nil Zachari...
Listen#162 - Garrett Broad: A New Vision of Food Tech Justice from 2022-05-02T19:10:51
Garrett Broad is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University. His research and teaching focus on contemporary social movements, digital media t...
Listen#161 - Nowadays: Clean Label, Delicious, Nutritious Plant-Based Meat is The Future from 2022-04-25T20:53:40
Max Elder is the co-founder and CEO of Nowadays, a venture-backed foodtech startup making plant-based meats with only a few simple ingredients and unparalleled nutritional profiles. Show Page: http...
Listen#160 - VegTech: Impact Investing in Alternative Proteins from 2022-04-11T16:50:13
Elysabeth Alfano is the Co-Founder and CEO of VegTech™ Invest, an investment management company that advises the thematic ETF, VegTech™ Plant-based Innovation&Climate ETF, ticker: EATV. EATV invest...
Listen#159 - Rachel Dreskin: A Better (and Plant-Based) Food System Is Possible from 2022-04-06T10:00
Rachel Dreskin is the CEO of the Plant Based Foods Association, the first and only trade association representing the nation’s leading plant-based food companies, as well as the Plant Based Foods I...
Listen#158 - OmniFoods: David Yeung on How to Catalyze a Global Transformation in the Food System from 2022-03-07T19:32
David Yeung is the Co-founder&CEO of Green Monday Group, a multi-faceted social venture with the mission to take on the world’s most pressing crises of climate change, food insecurity and public he...
Listen#157 - Dan Altschuler Malek on Unovis Asset Management’s New Alternative Protein Fund from 2022-01-26T11:00
Dan Altschuler Malek is a Managing Partner at Unovis Asset Management, a global investment firm that provides early-stage funding to entrepreneurs developing plant-based and cultured meat alternati...
Listen#156 - Journey Foods: Supply Chain and Food Science Meets Data from 2022-01-05T23:47
Riana Lynn is the founder of Journey Foods, a food tech company that supports cutting-edge product management and data services for food businesses. A biologist turned serial entrepreneur, Riana ha...
Listen#155 - SriMu: Do Life. NOT Cheese. from 2021-12-23T21:20
Julie Piatt aka “SriMati” is a mystic mother, musician, artist, chef, author and healer who has lived her life immersed in devotion and expansive creativity. She is also the creator of SriMu, a com...
Listen#154 - Tech to Table: Food Tech Innovators Disrupting a $15 Trillion Industry from 2021-12-21T20:31
Richard Munson is the author of Tesla: Inventor of the Modern, and his latest book—Tech to Table: 25 Innovators Reimagining Food—was released in September 2021. Other publications include From Edis...
Listen#153 - Next Gen Foods: Making Ridiculously Good Chicken From Plants from 2021-11-15T23:08
Andre Menezes is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Next Gen, the parent company of TiNDLE. Next Gen is a Singapore-based food tech company with a mission to create delicious and satisfy...
Listen#152 - New York City’s Mayor Eric Adams on the Power of Plant-Based Food (2018) from 2021-11-03T10:00
Eric Adams is New York City’s Mayor-Elect and the city’s first plant-based mayor to hold office. This episode was recorded and originally published in February 2018. Show Page: https://eftp.co/new-...
Listen#151 - Predicting the Future of Food: Trend Mapping with Louisa Burwood-Taylor from 2021-10-30T23:19
Louisa Burwood-Taylor is the Chief Editor of AgFunderNews where she covers food and agriculture, with a focus on new technology and startup investment. Her career spans over 10 years and involves a...
Listen#150 - Because, Animals: The Problem With Pet Food and the Promise of Cultivated Meat from 2021-10-21T18:52
Shannon Falconer is the CEO and Co-Founder of Because, Animals, the only company developing cultivated meat for pets. Show Page: https://eftp.co/because-animalsNewsletter signup: https://eftp.co/ne...
Listen#149 - Plantega: The Story So Far from 2021-10-12T13:08
Plantega is on mission to make plant-based food more accessible and equitable. We partner with innovative brands and provide a turnkey solution that empowers corner stores in urban hubs like New Yo...
Listen#148 - Imperfect Foods: Reimagining Grocery Delivery and Tackling Food Waste from 2021-10-10T20:35
Madeline Rotman is the Head of Sustainability for Imperfect Foods where she focuses on reducing waste across the company’s operational practices and the food supply system at large. Imperfect Foods...
Listen#147 - Breakthroughs, Adaptations, and the Future of Food from 2021-09-03T20:51
On this episode I share a new model I have been exploring that tries to make sense of current debates and approaches to fixing our food system and how to spot opportunities for growth. Episode Tran...
Listen#146 - Josh Balk: Can an Animal Protection Lens Create an Equitable and Sustainable Food System? from 2021-08-23T11:29
Josh Balk is the vice president of farm animal protection for the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). In addition, he is a co-founder of Eat Just, the food technology company that produces ...
Listen#145 - Tyler Mayoras: Crop Diversity and the Future of Plant-Based Food from 2021-08-16T04:00
Tyler Mayoras is the Cofounder and CEO of Cool Beans. Tyler has spent more than 20 years in private equity investing and consulting, focused on sustainable food and agriculture. After adopting a pl...
Listen#144 - Isha Datar: A New Narrative for Cellular Agriculture from 2021-08-09T04:00
Isha Datar is Executive Director of New Harvest, a nonprofit research institute that funds open, public cultured meat research. Topics covered on this podcastWhat is New Harvest and how Isha got s...
Listen#143 - Lasse Bruun: The Complex Global Effort to Tackle Big Meat’s Devastating Impact from 2021-08-01T12:00
Lasse Bruun is an advocacy expert in climate, sustainable agriculture and food systems. He leads 50by40, a collective impact organization working towards a fair, healthy and compassionate food syst...
Listen#142 - Bruce Friedrich: From Alternative Proteins to Alternative Food Systems from 2021-06-10T10:43
Bruce Friedrich is founder and president of the Good Food Institute, an international nonprofit that is reimagining meat production. With more than 100 team members across GFI's U.S. team and five ...
Listen#141 - Michele Simon: Addressing Structural Problems, not Symptoms of an Unjust and Unsustainable Food System from 2021-05-26T01:50
Michele Simon is a public health attorney, food policy expert, author, and thought leader in the plant-based foods industry. Questions explored on this episode:Can market-based solutions fix the pr...
Listen#140 - Gene Baur: Industrial Food, Alternative Proteins, and the Dream of Something Better from 2021-05-12T21:08
Gene Baur is an author, activist and the President and Co-founder of Farm Sanctuary. Questions explored on this episode. Should we minimize harm within the dominant industrial food model or focus e...
Listen#139 - Jennifer Jacquet: Big Meat and Dairy’s Climate Reckoning from 2021-05-05T10:38
Jennifer Jacquet is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at NYU. She is co-author of a recent study exploring the climate responsibilities of industrial meat and dairy ...
Listen#137 - Errol Schweizer: We Won’t End Factory Farming Until We Dismantle The System (Part 1) from 2021-04-21T22:35
A native of The Bronx, NY, Errol Schweizer is a 25+ year veteran of the food system, with experience in retail, food service, cooperatives, farmers markets, urban agriculture, community organizing ...
Listen#137 - Errol Schweizer: We Won’t End Factory Farming Until We Dismantle The System (Part 1) from 2021-04-21T22:35
A native of The Bronx, NY, Errol Schweizer is a 25+ year veteran of the food system, with experience in retail, food service, cooperatives, farmers markets, urban agriculture, community organizing ...
Listen#136 - Pat Mooney on Two Different Futures for Food Systems from 2021-04-13T21:58
Pat Mooney is the co-founder and executive director of the ETC Group, and is an expert on agricultural diversity, biotechnology, and global governance with decades of experience in international ci...
Listen#135 - A Better Paperclip Maximizer? from 2021-04-02T00:04
Are we trying to transform the food system or build better paperclip maximizers? Show Page: https://eftp.co/better-paperclip-maximizerNewsletter signup: https://eftp.co/newsletter Follow us on Inst...
Listen#134 - Transforming Food Systems: Ruth Richardson and the Global Alliance for the Future of Food from 2021-03-29T22:52
Ruth Richardson is Executive Director of the Global Alliance for the Future of Food, a strategic alliance of philanthropic foundations working together and with others to transform global food syst...
Listen#133 - Confirmation Bias and Negative Externalities from 2021-03-19T16:30
Confirmation bias is the tendency to process information by looking for, or interpreting, information that is consistent with one's existing beliefs. This biased approach to decision making is larg...
Listen#132 - Greg Steltenpohl: Lessons From a Sustainable Food Pioneer from 2021-03-16T20:31
Greg Steltenpohl, Founder of Califia Farms and plant-based pioneer passed away on March 11, 2021 at the age of 67. Greg founded Odwalla., which was acquired by Coca-Cola in 2001. He also co-founded...
Listen#131 - Helena Norberg-Hodge: A New (and Ancient) Vision for the Future of Food from 2021-03-13T23:21
HELENA NORBERG-HODGE is a pioneer of the new economy movement and recipient of the Alternative Nobel prize, the Arthur Morgan Award and the Goi Peace Prize for contributing to “the revitalization o...
Listen#130 - Eat The Change: Seth Goldman on Beyond Meat, Innovation, and Scaling from 2021-03-07T23:14
Seth Goldman is Founder of Eat the Change®, a platform to inform and empower consumers to make dietary choices aligned with their concerns around climate and health. Seth is also the Co-founder of ...
Listen#129 - From Food Chains to Food Sovereignty: A Reframing of the Food System with Sanjay Rawal from 2021-02-27T20:07
Sanjay Rawal is an Indian-American documentary film director who has made films like Food Chains (produced by Eva Longoria and Eric Schlosser with narration by Forest Whitaker), 3100:Run and Become...
Listen#128 - EFFECT Partners: Systemic Solutions to Environmental and Social Challenges from 2021-01-14T14:00
This episode features Christian Chamberlin from EFFECT Partners, a social change incubator that brings culture and business together to solve social and environmental challenges. Nil Zacharias has ...
Listen#127 - MamaSezz: Making Meal-Time Easy With Whole Food Plant-Based Staples from 2020-11-19T17:00
MamaSezz is a food company that makes meal-time easy with whole food plant-based staples to help you eat healthy at home. MamaSezz does all the shopping, chopping, and cooking for you so you can ge...
Listen#126 - Plantega: Improving Access to Delicious, Affordable Plant-Based Food from 2020-11-16T00:38
Plantega is a unique food access initiative and distribution platform for plant based food. We have launched as a 3-month pilot in 3 independent corner stores (better known as bodegas in NYC) locat...
Listen#125 - Renewal Mill: Fighting Climate Change With Upcycled Ingredients from 2020-10-02T22:47
Renewal Mill is a next-generation ingredient company that fights climate change and global food loss by upcycling byproducts from food manufacturing into premium ingredients and products. More abou...
Listen#124 - Lupii: Offering a New Perspective on Protein from 2020-08-27T12:00
This episode features Isabelle Steichen, the co-founder and CEO of Lupii. Lupii makes tasty, sustainable, plant-based fuel that will keep you running like a boss. Whether you're vegetarian, vegan, ...
Listen#123 - Purpose-Powered Food in the Age of Pandemics and Social Unrest from 2020-07-13T22:38
This episode features Sadrah Schadel and Mike Woliansky, the co-founders of No Evil Foods, a company focused on impacting environmental sustainability, public health, and animal welfare through bet...
Listen#122 - Madeline Haydon on Leading in a Time of Uncertainty and Speaking up About Diversity from 2020-06-30T03:08
Madeline Haydon is the Founder and CEO of nutpods, the first food brand from Green Grass Foods Inc., an independent, natural foods manufacturer based in Seattle, Washington, dedicated to introducin...
Listen#121 - PowerPlant Ventures: Dan Gluck on Accelerating the Plant-Based Food Revolution from 2020-05-26T10:00
Dan Gluck is a Managing Partner at Powerplant Ventures (“PPV”) and current Board Member of PPV portfolio companies, Your Super, Rebbl, Thistle and Jot Coffee. Powerplant Ventures is a growth equity...
Listen#120 - Miyoko Schinner on COVID-19 and the Unraveling of our Food System from 2020-05-07T15:44
Miyoko Schinner is the fearless CEO/founder of Miyoko’s, a food brand combining culinary traditions with food technology to revolutionize dairy by making cheese and butter without cows. Through an ...
Listen#119 - Hälsa Foods: Yogurts Made of Whole Grain Oats and Zero BS from 2020-03-22T23:00
Hälsa Foods stands for healthier people and planet. The company was founded by Helena Lumme and Mika Manninen on their innovation of the new 100% clean plant-based platform. Hälsa makes America's o...
Listen#118 - Before The Butcher: Going Beyond the Plant-Based Burger from 2020-03-17T01:57
Before the Butcher offers the market’s broadest choice of meat alternatives for the growing number of consumers who are reducing their consumption of meat products. The company’s UNCUT brand of pla...
Listen#117 - Lettuce Grow: The Simple Way to Grow Healthy Food at Home from 2020-03-09T01:00
Founded by Jacob Pechenik and Zooey Deschanel, Lettuce Grow is on a mission to bring much-needed change to our food system and help people use fewer resources by growing healthier food at home. Let...
Listen#116 - Rebellyous Foods: Making Plant-Based Meat Affordable for All from 2020-03-02T02:00
Meatless for all is the mission of Rebellyous Foods. The Rebellyous team is designing new equipment and processes to make better tasting, more affordable plant-based meat so that people anywhere – ...
Listen#115 - GEM: Simplifying Daily Health Habits with Real Food Products from 2020-02-24T00:00
Sara Cullen is the founder of GEM, an algae-based science company working to simplify daily health habits. GEM makes real food products that optimize daily nutrition. Sara has a BS in international...
Listen#114 - Mastering Diabetes: Robby Barbaro on How Food Can Save Us from 2020-02-17T00:39
Robby Barbaro, MPH is co-founder of Mastering Diabetes and co-author of Mastering Diabetes. He is a diabetes coach, educator, and international speaker who has been living with type 1 diabetes for ...
Listen#113 - Tyler Mayoras: Impact Investing and The Future of Sustainable Food from 2020-02-10T00:00
Tyler Mayoras has over 20 years of private equity investing experience and is currently the Co-Manager of the $155 million Advantage Capital Food&Ag Fund. Mr. Mayoras invests in and helps scale gro...
Listen#112 - Akua: Carbon-Negative Foods Made From Ocean-Farmed Seagreens from 2020-02-03T00:00
AKUA creates carbon-negative foods made from ocean-farmed seagreens that are healthy and healing for our planet. The company believes food should be nourishing for humans, the environment, and have...
Listen#111 - Dream Pops: Re-Imagining Ice Cream for the Next Generation from 2020-01-28T00:22
Dream Pops is re-imagining ice cream for the next generation. Their plant-based frozen bars are less than 100 calories, less than 5g of total sugar and are powered by superfoods and adaptogens. Dre...
Listen#110 - MUSE Global: Educating Tomorrow’s Changemakers from 2020-01-13T02:31
Rebecca Amis and Jeff King run MUSE Global, an international education system offering effective, innovative, and passion-based learning experiences within a plant-based, sustainable environment. F...
Listen#109 - TurtleTree Labs: Creating Cell-Based Milk and a Future Without Dairy Cows from 2020-01-05T23:55
TurtleTree Labs is the first biotech company in the world with the ability to create milk from all mammals. Using their proprietary cell-based methods, they will shape the future of not just how we...
Listen#108 - Switch4Good: Olympic Medalist Dotsie Bausch’s Unstoppable New Mission from 2019-12-31T04:28
After concluding a prolific professional cycling career that produced a medal at the 2012 London Olympic Games, eight US national championships, two Pan American gold medals, and a world record, Do...
Listen#107 - Hodo Foods: Taste, Convenience, Transparency and the Re-emergence of Tofu from 2019-12-22T07:07
Hodo Foods makes delicious, wholesome, plant-based foods including tofu and yuba that are ready-to-eat or easy to cook. Hodo products use organic, clean, minimally processed nutrient-dense ingredie...
Listen#106 - Abbot’s Butcher: Plant-Based Meats Crafted with Clean Ingredients from 2019-12-16T00:25
Abbot’s Butcher crafts premium plant-based meats that are soy free and non GMO, using simple, high quality ingredients like golden peas, vegetables, herbs, spices, extra virgin olive oil and vinega...
Listen#105 - Plant Based World Conference and Expo: Bigger, Better, and Bolder in 2020 from 2019-12-09T05:03
Plant Based World is the only professional trade show in the world dedicated to bringing the plant-based movement to an audience of food industry professionals, healthcare professionals and the gen...
Listen#104 - Sweet Farm: Driving Systemic Impact via Education, Inspiration, and Innovation from 2019-12-02T03:28
Sweet Farm is a non-profit aimed at creating a more compassionate and sustainable world by addressing the profoundly negative impacts of industrialized agriculture on both animals and plants. To do...
Listen#103 - The Future of Alternative Protein with Alison Rabschnuk of the Good Food Institute from 2019-11-25T06:00
Alison Rabshnuk leads the Good Food Institute’s Corporate Engagement department and advises some of the world’s largest food companies, restaurants, and retailers on business opportunities in the r...
Listen#102 - GlassWall Syndicate: Funding Companies That are Taking Animals out of the Supply Chain from 2019-11-18T01:00
GlassWall Syndicate is a large group of venture capitalists, foundations, trusts, nonprofits, and individual investors who are all united by their desire to take animals out of the supply chain and...
Listen#101 - Unreal Deli: Mrs. Goldfarb’s Journey From her Kitchen to Whole Foods and Shark Tank! from 2019-11-10T23:22
Unreal Deli is home to the world’s finest deli meat - made from the best stuff on earth, plants. Made in small batches in Los Angeles, their debut product, Unreal Corned Beef, has become a staple a...
Listen#100 - The Eat For The Planet Cookbook from 2019-11-07T23:02
Start a food revolution in your own kitchen! The Eat For The Planet Cookbook features recipes from Beyond Meat, Veggie Grill, nutpods, Next Level Burger, JUST, Tofurky, No Evil Foods. Ripple Foods,...
Listen#99 - Accelerating Plant-Based Retail Growth with Julie Emmett of Plant Based Foods Association from 2019-11-04T00:00
Julie Emmett is the Senior Director of retail partnerships for the Plant Based Foods Association (or PBFA), a trade association representing America’s leading plant-based food companies. Julie deve...
Listen#98 - Cena Vegan Plant Ranch: Changing the World One Taco at a Time from 2019-10-27T22:24
Carmen Santillan, Gary Huerta, and Mike Simms are the founders of Cena Vegan Plant Ranch, a company that does authentic Mexican plant-based meats better than anyone. Cena Vegan launched in 2016 as ...
Listen#97 - PlantBased Solutions: How to Get a Product out of the Kitchen and Into the Market from 2019-10-20T22:55
Daniel Karsevar is a formally trained chef, former restaurateur, business consultant, and product development expert with over 15 years of C-Suite expertise in the food industry. Daniel currently s...
Listen#96 - Embracing Humility and Fearlessness While Shaping the Future Food System from 2019-10-16T00:30
In this conversation Brian Kateman, co-founder and President of the Reducetarian Foundation and Nil Zacharias discuss their thoughts on the state of the movement to change the food system and the c...
Listen#95 - Infinite Foods: How Plant-Based Protein Can be a Positive Catalyst for Change in Africa from 2019-10-09T04:19
Michelle Adelman in co-founder and CEO of Infinite Foods, a go-to-market platform for plant-based food brands like Beyond Meat and Oatly to reach Africa and emerging markets faster, with lower risk...
Listen#94 - Health-Ade: How a Farmers’ Market Kombucha Startup Grew Into a Beverage Powerhouse from 2019-10-03T01:56
Health-Ade Kombucha was founded in 2012 by Daina Trout, her husband Justin, and best friend Vanessa Dew, with a tiny credit card and a big dream: to brew the best tasting and highest quality kombuc...
Listen#93 - Eclipse Foods: Making Plant-Based Dairy Products that are Indistinguishable From Conventional Dairy from 2019-09-25T03:27
Aylon Steinhart is the founder and CEO of Eclipse Foods, a Y Combinator-backed startup making plant-based dairy products that are indistinguishable from conventional dairy. Using a novel plant-proc...
Listen#92 - 50by40: On a Mission to Reduce Global Animal Protein Production and Consumption from 2019-09-17T23:08
50by40 is a global, collective impact organization aiming to cut the global production and consumption of industrialized animal agriculture by 50% by 2040. Lasse Bruun is 50by40's Global Director....
Listen#91 - Mylk Guys: Making it Absurdly Easy to Eat Plant Based from 2019-09-03T21:25
Mylk Guys is an online grocery store where you can find the vegan version of everything. They have thousands of the best vegan products on the market, including the largest selection of vegan chees...
Listen#90 - Barùkas: The Perfect Nut For You and The Planet from 2019-08-20T18:33
Seth Tukerman is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Barùkas, a good for you, good for the planet superfood nut company. The Barùkas Nut has been described as a mix of almond, cashew and peanut...
Listen#89 - Your Super: Beating Cancer, Launching a Superfood Company and Spreading the Power of Plants from 2019-07-31T00:34
Michael Kuech and Kristel De Groot are co-founders of Your Super, a next-gen industry leader in plant-based living. They sell products that have the nutritional power of fresh produce and the conve...
Listen#88 - How Chris Kerr and Chuck Laue Kick-Started Humane Investing and Helped Transform the Food Industry from 2019-07-10T04:00
This conversation was recorded live at the Plant Based World Conference&Expo in June 2019. It dives into the early beginnings of humane investing, nearly 10 years ago. Chris and Chuck also share th...
Listen#87 - Beyond Meat: Seth Goldman on Turning a Mission Driven Business Into a Mainstream Revolution from 2019-06-19T04:02
This conversation with Seth Goldman was recorded live at the Plant Based World Conference&Expo on June 8, 2019 in New York City. It was the opening keynote on the second day of the expo, as part of...
Listen#86 - Perennial: Sara Bonham is Using Food Tech 2.0 to Change the Conversation Around Healthy Aging from 2019-06-05T07:02
Sara Bonham is a scientist and entrepreneur who co-founded Willow Cup, a California-based food-tech company dedicated to using the endless possibilities of plants to unlock the keys to better aging...
Listen#85 - Spero Foods: Reinventing Dairy and Eggs Without Compromising on Flavor or Nutrition from 2019-05-08T05:00
Phaedra Randolph is the founder and CEO of Spero Foods, a company that produces plant-based dairy and egg products that are optimized to maximize flavor, sustainability, and nutrition—while minimiz...
Listen#84 - Hungry Planet: Bending the Curve on Human and Planetary Health with Plant-Based Meats from 2019-04-24T04:00
Todd Boyman is Co-Founder&CEO of Hungry Planet, the first company to develop a full range of premium plant-based meats -- including beef, chicken, pork, turkey, lamb and crab -- that handle, prepar...
Listen#83 - Fry’s: An Iconic Global Plant-Based Brand Finally Arrives in America from 2019-04-17T04:00
The Fry Family Food Co. (Fry’s) is the leading plant-based brand in South Africa and sell their all plant-based products in over 8,000 stores across 28 countries. They now have more than 40 differe...
Listen#82 - Tashi Nyima: A Buddhist Monk's Perspective on How to Transform the Food Industry and Change the World from 2019-04-10T04:00
The Venerable Tashi Nyima is an ordained monk in the Jonang lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, and leads the Universal Compassion Buddhist Congregation. Known for his directness, clarity of expression, a...
Listen#81 - No Evil Foods: An Indie Food Brand's Journey into the Mainstream from 2019-04-03T03:00
No Evil Foods is a mission-driven business near Asheville, NC focused on impacting environmental sustainability, public health, and animal welfare through better food choices. Show notes for this e...
Listen#80 - Chad Sarno: Evolution of a Plant-based chef and the road to Good Catch Foods from 2019-02-06T08:00
Chad Sarno is a plant-based chef who is on a mission to get everyone in the world to consume more plants. Throughout his career, Chad has launched six plant-based restaurants in Istanbul, Munich, L...
Listen#79 - Plant Power Fast Food: Jeffrey Harris on Building a Vegan McDonald's from 2019-01-15T22:34
Jeffrey Harris is the co-founder of Plant Power Fast Food, an all vegan fast-food chain. In this conversation we get into:Why Jeffrey wanted to start a vegan fast food chain and how he found his c...
Listen#78 - Meatless Monday: Peggy Neu on Turning a Simple Idea into a Global Movement from 2018-12-12T08:00
Peggy Neu is the President of the Monday Campaigns, the non-profit that originally founded Meatless Monday. In this engaging conversation we get into:Meatless Monday’s strategy for success. How th...
Listen#77 - Pollution Studios: Asher Brown is Helping to Shape the Story of the Future of Food from 2018-12-05T08:00
Asher Brown is the CEO and Founder of Pollution Studios, a digital content agency, specializing in telling stories across a wide variety of platforms. Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/a...
Listen#76 - Balanced: Audrey Lawson-Sanchez is Changing Menus Where it Matters Most from 2018-11-29T08:00
Audrey Lawson-Sanchez is the CEO of Balanced, a nonprofit aimed at making healthy food more accessible in workplaces, schools, hospitals, universities, and retail spaces across the country. In this...
Listen#75 - John Mackey on the Conscious Evolution of the Food System from 2018-11-20T05:00
John Mackey is the founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market. He helped fuel the rise of organic and natural food in the United States and also popularized the idea of “Conscious Capitalism.” John is a...
Listen#74 - Ari Nessel on Why Perspective Matters if You Want to Change the Food System from 2018-11-14T08:00
Ari Nessel is an investor and philanthropist who is on a mission to transform the way we relate to our food and one another by funding companies and projects that are actively working to disrupt fa...
Listen#73 - BlueNalu: Lou Cooperhouse on Growing Better Seafood to Save the Oceans from 2018-11-07T00:18
Considering the state of our oceans with overfishing driving fish stocks to the point of collapse, rising sea temperatures, ocean acidification, and plastic pollution infiltrating even the most rem...
Listen#72 - Suzy Amis Cameron: On a Mission to Save the Planet – and Future Generations – One Meal at a Time from 2018-10-24T07:00
Suzy Amis Cameron is a noted environmental advocate, former actor and model, and mother of five. In addition to founding MUSE School with her sister Rebecca Amis, she has founded a number of enviro...
Listen#71 - Ryan Bethencourt: Reinventing Pet Food and Building the Post-Animal Bio Economy from 2018-10-10T04:00
Ryan Bethencourt is a scientist, entrepreneur, and biohacker. He is the CEO of Wild Earth, an innovative company that’s reinventing pet food as well as a Partner at Babel ventures, which helps fund...
Listen#70 - How Can We Get Food Service Providers and Institutions to Add Plant-Based Foods to the Menu? from 2018-10-03T04:00
This episode features a recording of a panel discussion from the Reducetarian Summit, held in Los Angeles at the end of September 2018. The goal of the summit was to spark solution-driven conversat...
Listen#69 - Victor Friedberg on Why We Need Moonshots For Better Food to Feed 10 Billion People by 2050 from 2018-09-26T04:00
Victor Friedberg is the Co-Founder&Managing Director of S2G Ventures, a multi-stage food and agriculture venture fund investing in entrepreneurs whose products and services meet the shifting demand...
Listen#68 - Josh Balk: Why the Fight for Farm Animal Welfare Is Far From Over from 2018-09-19T04:00
Josh Balk is Vice President of Farm Animal Protection for the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/josh-balkNewsletter signup: https://eftp.co/n...
Listen#67 - Jody Rasch: Investing in Vegan Food and Beyond from 2018-09-12T04:00
Jody Rasch is the Managing Trustee of VegInvest, an investment fund that provides early-stage capital and guidance to companies striving to replace the use of animals in food as well as lab researc...
Listen#66 - Derek Sarno: Living in a Monastery, Loving Mushrooms, and Making Wicked Healthy Food from 2018-09-05T04:00
Derek Sarno is the Executive Chef and Director of Plant Based Innovation at Tesco. He is also the co-founder of Wicked Healthy, a plant-based food blog that he co-founded with his brother Chad Sarn...
Listen#65 - Plant Based World: Bringing the Plant-Based Movement to a Mainstream Audience from 2018-08-31T04:00
Ben developed the idea for Plant Based World Conference and Expo as a result of his own drastic transition to a plant-based lifestyle and earnest desire to make the world a better place. The expo i...
Listen#64 - Victoria Moran Is Training the Next Generation of Vegan Changemakers from 2018-08-22T04:00
Victoria Moran is a renowned author, speaker, vegan lifestyle coach and educator, and the host of the popular podcast, Main Street Vegan. Victoria has been vegan for over three decades and has dedi...
Listen#63 - Liz Dee on Leadership, Empowering Vegan Women, and Funding the Future of Food from 2018-08-15T04:00
Liz Dee is the Co-President and Co-Owner of Smarties Candy Company, CEO of Baleine&Bjorn Capital, a firm that’s committed to investing in companies creating superior plant-based and cultured produc...
Listen#62 - Alpine Organics: The Missing Nutrients in a Plant-Based Diet and How Matt Tullman Found a Solution from 2018-08-08T04:00
Matt Tullman is the CEO of Alpine Organics, a company on a mission to provide every individual who eats plant-based with the knowledge about, and access to, the essential nutrients required to thri...
Listen#61 - The Good Food Institute: Building the Good Food Future With Bruce Friedrich from 2018-08-01T04:00
Bruce Friedrich is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Good Food Institute or GFI, a non-profit that is working to transform animal agriculture by promoting the development of innovative a...
Listen#60 - Chef Charity Morgan Is Changing the Game in the NFL with Plant-Based Food from 2018-07-25T04:00
Charity Morgan is a plant-based chef who runs a meal service for NFL players. Chef Charity is married to Tennessee Titans outside Linebacker, Derrick Morgan, and their family’s decision to transiti...
Listen#59 - What's the Best Diet for Everyone? Cardiologist Dr. Joel Kahn Shares the Keys to a Healthy Life from 2018-07-18T04:00
Dr. Joel Kahn is a practicing cardiologist, a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Wayne State University School of Medicine and an Associate Professor at Oakland University/Beaumont Hospital medical ...
Listen#58 - Outstanding Foods: Bill Glaser on Plant-Based Bacon Chips and Beyond from 2018-07-11T04:00
Bill Glaser is the CEO and founder of Outstanding Foods, a plant-based food company that is about to launch their premiere product, bacon chips, under the brand Pig Out. Show notes for this episod...
Listen#57 - Veestro: Plant-Based Food Delivered to Every Doorstep with Monica Klausner from 2018-06-28T04:00
Monica Klausner is the Co-Founder and CMO of Veestro, a plant-based meal delivery service that uses organic ingredients and is completely preservative and GMO-free. Show notes for this episode: htt...
Listen#56 - What is a Reducetarian? Brian Kateman Has the Answer and Explains Why it Matters from 2018-06-20T04:00
Brian Kateman is the co-founder and president of the Reducetarian Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to reducing consumption of meat, eggs, and dairy to create a healthy, sustainable, ...
Listen#55 - Kristie Middleton: The Fight to Get Schools, Hospitals, and Other Institutions to Go Meatless from 2018-06-13T04:00
Kristie Middleton is managing director of Farm Animal Protection for The Humane Society of the United States, or the HSUS, and working with food service providers in schools is a big part of her jo...
Listen#54 - The Most Sustainable Nut Milk? Exploring the Power of Macadamia Nuts with Jim Richards of Milkadamia from 2018-06-06T04:00
Jim Richards is the CEO of Milkadamia. While surely there are a number of companies who are just looking to make a fast buck in the plant-based milk space, for Jim, producing macadamia-based dairy ...
Listen#53 - How to Grow Plant-Based with Michele Simon: The Policy Challenge from 2018-05-30T04:00
Michele Simon is the executive director of the Plant Based Foods Association. She has a background as a public health lawyer and there are few people who understand the nuances of the challenges an...
Listen#52 - The Essential Nutrient You’re Probably Deficient in: John Shegerian on Why You Need to Get SOM Sleep from 2018-05-23T04:00
John Shegerian is the co-founder and CEO of SOM Sleep, a company that makes an all natural, vegan, non-GMO, allergen free, non-habit forming beverage that is formulated to help individuals achieve ...
Listen#51 - REBBL: Sheryl O’Loughlin on the Perils of Entrepreneurship and the Power of Adaptogens from 2018-05-16T04:00
Sheryl O'Loughlin is the CEO of REBBL, a company that makes plant-based super herb beverages. In this far-ranging and fascinating conversation, Sheryl and I dive into why she decided to jump in hea...
Listen#50 - Julie Piatt: Using Food as a Healer, and Turning Joy and Love Into Products from 2018-05-09T04:00
Julie Piatt aka “SriMati” is an author, podcast host, plant-based chef, motivational speaker, meditation guide, yoga teacher, and singer. At the core of all of Julie’s offerings is an opportunity f...
Listen#49 - Purple Carrot: Andy Levitt on Making Plant-Based Cooking Easy from 2018-05-02T04:00
Andy Levitt, the Founder and CEO of Purple Carrot, spent the bulk of his career in the pharmaceutical industry. After getting diagnosed with Crohn’s disease in 2012, Andy saw that integrating more ...
Listen#48 - Dr. Michael Greger on Plant-Based Meats, Processed Foods, and How to Eat What You Love and Not Die from 2018-04-25T04:00
Dr. Michael Greger is a physician, New York Times bestselling author, and internationally recognized speaker on nutrition, food safety, and public health issues, specifically the benefits of a plan...
Listen#47 - Fora: Reinventing Butter and Getting Your Startup Off the Ground from 2018-04-18T04:00
Aidan Altman and Andrew McClure are the founders of the up-and-coming plant-based food startup, Fora. Their signature FabaButter is made using aquafaba, the starchy water that comes in cans of chic...
Listen#46 - Rich Roll on Food Tribalism, Building an Authentic Brand, and Keeping it Real from 2018-04-11T04:00
Rich Roll is an ultra-endurance athlete and full-time wellness and plant-based nutrition advocate.If you are familiar with the world of plant-based lifestyle and wellness, chances are you have hear...
Listen#45 - Can Anyone Build a Food Company? Madeline Haydon and the Incredible nutpods Story from 2018-04-04T04:00
Madeline Haydon is the Founder and CEO of the fast-growing brand, nutpods, a dairy-free creamer made from a blend of almonds and coconuts. Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/madeline-hayd...
Listen#44 - Women Chefs Shifting Power Dynamics and Changing the Conversation in the Food World from 2018-03-28T04:00
Nina Curtis, Peggy Chan, and Sophia Hoffmann are renowned chefs who were in New York in March 2018 for the International Women’s Day dinner hosted at the James Beard Foundation by WCR. Not only wer...
Listen#43 - The Eat For The Planet Book: The Inspiration, the Process, and the Change We Hope to See in the Food System from 2018-03-21T04:00
Gene Stone and I talk about our new book, Eat For the Planet. Some of the things we cover include: How we met and decided to write a book about the connection between food and the environment. T...
Listen#42 - The End of Animal Farming, Effective Altruism, and the Quest to Expand our Moral Circle with Jacy Reese from 2018-03-14T04:00
Jacy Reese is the co-founder and Research Director of Sentience Institute, a nonprofit think tank researching how social movements succeed in expanding humanity's moral circle using the perspective...
Listen#41 - Packaged Food Nutrition Basics for Food Manufacturers and Consumers with Dietician Brenda Davis from 2018-03-07T05:00
This is one of the longest interviews I’ve conducted and I promise you this is a conversation about food, health and nutrition unlike any you have heard before. Whether you are a food manufacturer ...
Listen#40 - Borough President Eric Adams Plans to Transform Brooklyn and the Nation With Plant-Based Food from 2018-02-28T05:00
I recently had the honor of sitting down with Brooklyn Borough President, Eric Adams to hear more about his journey back to health using plant-based nutrition. Adams has turned his personal success...
Listen#39 - Saving the World One Bite at a Time: The Eat For The Planet Book from 2018-02-20T13:48
The Eat For The Planet book is going to be released on March 20, 2018, and is available for pre-order now! This fast-paced, fact-rich, graphic-heavy book discusses the connection between factory f...
Listen#38 - How Social Media Influencers Are Shaping Our Food Culture With Jenné Claiborne from 2018-02-14T05:00
I recently had the chance to chat with Jenné Claiborne, author of The Sweet Potato Soul Cookbook. In our conversation, we discuss how she went from being a waitress at a vegan restaurant in NYC to...
Listen#37 - Can Technology Save Us? Ela Madej on Capitalism, Artificial Intelligence, and the Race to Feed 10 Billion from 2018-02-07T05:00
Ela Madej is a successful tech entrepreneur and a founding partner of Fifty Years, a venture capital firm focused on working with companies combining purpose and profit to solve some of the world’s...
Listen#36 - Next Level Burger: Redefining the American Burger Experience from 2018-01-31T05:00
I caught up with Matt and Cierra de Gruyter, the Founders of Next Level Burger, while they were in New York for their grand opening and they were kind enough to share their time and insights with m...
Listen#35 - So You Want to Disrupt the Food System? Lisa Feria Explains How from 2018-01-24T05:00
Lisa Feria is the CEO of Stray Dog Capital, a venture capital firm that is focused on driving alternatives to the use of animals in the supply chain through investments, expertise, and support. Sho...
Listen#34 - Protein: The Good, the Bad, and the Scary with Kathy Freston from 2018-01-17T05:00
Kathy Freston is a wellness activist and writer with a focus on healthy eating and conscious living. She is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous books and has been featured on The Elle...
Listen#33 – Chris Kerr, the Original Vegan Investor, on Shaping a New Food Industry from 2018-01-10T05:00
Chris Kerr is one of the first people to help funnel early-stage investments for vegan food companies. In the early 2000s, he worked with the Humane Society of the United States to manage their inv...
Listen#32 - Dr. Will Tuttle on Why You Should Question Your Cultural Food Programming from 2018-01-03T05:00
Dr. Will Tuttle is an award-winning speaker and author. A former Zen monk with a Ph.D. from U.C., Berkeley, he has worked extensively in intuition development, spiritual healing, meditation, vegan ...
Listen#31 - The Politics of Meat and Dairy with Marion Nestle from 2017-12-27T05:00
Marion Nestle has devoted her career to educating the public about how the food industry influences our society and personal health, serving as the Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Stu...
Listen#30 - Paul Shapiro on Clean Meat and the Quest to End Factory Farming from 2017-12-20T05:00
Paul Shapiro has spent the bulk of his career fighting on behalf of animals. As the vice president of policy engagement for the Humane Society of the United States, Paul works to promote legislatio...
Listen#29 - Matthew Kenney on How Chefs Can Craft the Future of Food from 2017-12-13T05:00
Matthew Kenney is one of the most well-known chefs in the plant-based space. With a number of restaurants in the U.S. and overseas, Matthew is undoubtedly a pioneer in the world of high-end plant-b...
Listen#28 - Vegan Mayo Pioneer Bob Goldberg on How to Follow Your Heart and Not Sell Out from 2017-12-06T05:00
Bob Goldberg is the CEO and co-founder of Follow Your Heart. Bob and his 3 co-founders opened a vegetarian market and restaurant in Canoga Park, California nearly 47 years ago. Since then, the comp...
Listen#27 - How Google Does Food: Scott Giambastiani On Upgrading to Plant Forward from 2017-11-29T05:00
As the Global Program Chef at Google, Scott Giambastiani is in charge of feeding some of the most brilliant people in the world. Not only that, though, he has the added challenge of making the cafe...
Listen#26 - Mark Bittman on Eating Less Meat, the Problem with Dietary Labels and Why Chefs Need to Go Away from 2017-11-22T05:00
For more than two decades Mark Bittman's popular stories appeared in the New York Times, where he was ultimately the lead food writer for the Sunday Magazine and became the country’s first food-foc...
Listen#25 - How to Eat Healthy on a Budget: Gunnar Lovelace of Thrive Market Has the Solution from 2017-11-15T05:00
Gunnar Lovelace is the founder and co-CEO of Thrive Market, an online retailer that is making healthy living accessible to Americans by providing organic and non-GMO groceries at discounted rates. ...
Listen#24 - Let Them Eat Meat! Ethan Brown of Beyond Meat on Redefining Meat Using Plants from 2017-11-08T05:00
Ethan Brown is the CEO and Founder of Beyond Meat and he has one simple goal: make meat out of plants. In our conversation, Ethan shares details about how close his company is to creating a product...
Listen#23 - Sweet Earth Foods: Kelly Swette on Building a Modern Plant-Based Brand and Selling to Nestlé from 2017-11-01T04:00
Kelly Swette is the CEO of Sweet Earth Enlightened Foods and her ultimate goal is to change the food system and make convenient, sustainable, and healthy foods the new norm. In our conversation, we...
Listen#22 - Ocean Hugger Foods: Launching a Plant-Based Alternative to Raw Tuna with David Benzaquen from 2017-10-25T04:00
David Benzaquen is the CEO of PlantBased Solutions, a strategic brand management and marketing agency for plant-based products, and Ocean Hugger Foods, a company that makes vegan seafood alternativ...
Listen#21 - Art Meets Purpose: Designing Conscious Food Experiences With Ravi DeRossi from 2017-10-19T04:00
Ravi DeRossi owns 15 successful restaurants and cocktail bars in New York City – and he’s on a mission to make every item on their menus plant-based. In this engaging and unique conversation, he al...
Listen#20 - How Tofurky Stays Authentic as it Evolves: Jaime Athos on the Dawn of a New Era from 2017-10-11T04:00
Jaime Athos, CEO of Tofurky discusses how Tofurky has managed to stay independent and family-funded throughout their monumental success. Jaime shares a variety of insights from his thoughts on the ...
Listen#19 - Bite-Sized News: 3 Hot New Food Trends from 2017-10-04T04:00
This week's episode highlights news and trends in the plant-based food industry based on what I saw at this year's Natural Products Expo East, recently held in Baltimore. I identify the following 3...
Listen#18 - A Food Entrepreneur's Journey With Miyoko Schinner, the Queen of Vegan Cheese from 2017-09-27T04:00
Miyoko Schinner is Founder and CEO of Miyoko's Kitchen. In this interview we talk about her recent success with Miyoko’s Kitchen as well as the challenges she faced scaling the business. From the s...
Listen#17 - How Media is Shaping the Future of Food from 2017-09-20T04:00
This episode features my recent interview with Jerry Sever for Plant-Based Business Week, an online conference that showcased 30+ of the world’s top experts across the plant-based industry. Show No...
Listen#16 - Hope Springs Eternal in a Food Swamp, Thanks to Stephen Ritz of Green Bronx Machine from 2017-09-13T04:00
Stephen Ritz, the founder of Green Bronx Machine, is a Bronx native and educator in the public school system, who has seen how an excess of cheap, unhealthy food can negatively impact a community. ...
Listen#15 - Califia Farms: Building the Food and Beverage Company of the Future with Greg Steltenpohl from 2017-09-06T04:00
I recently had the honor of sitting down with Greg Steltenpohl, co-founder and CEO of Califia Farms, a company that makes dairy-free milks, citrus juices, and specialty coffee drinks. Show Notes: h...
Listen#14 - Good Food Can Change the World: Craig Cochran on Growing a Restaurant Business in NYC from 2017-08-30T04:00
Craig Cochran is the co-owner of Terri, a 100 percent plant-based fast casual restaurant with 3 locations in NYC. He also recently launched a new restaurant, P.S. Kitchen that caters to a more high...
Listen#13 - The Plant Based Foods Association: Michele Simon on the Fight to Create a Better Food System from 2017-08-23T04:00
Michele Simon is the executive director of the Plant Based Foods Association, a trade group with over 80 members, whose goal is to level the playing field for plant-based food. Show Notes: https://...
Listen#12 - The Rigged Economics of American Meat and Dairy With David Simon from 2017-08-16T04:00
In this episode, I speak with David Simon, lawyer, sustainable consumption advocate, and author of the book Meatonomics. In our chat, we get into the externalized costs of the meat industry, specif...
Listen#11 - Rules of Healthy Eating Decoded by Dr. Michelle McMacken from 2017-08-09T04:00
Dr. Michelle McMacken is a board certified internal medicine physician at Bellevue Hospital and an assistant professor of medicine at NYU School of Medicine. She is an advocate for plant-based nutr...
Listen#10 - Can Seafood be Sustainable? Captain Paul Watson of Sea Shepherd on How to Save the Oceans from 2017-08-02T04:00
Few people have a better understanding of the oceans and their current state than Captain Paul Watson, President, CEO and founder of Sea Shepherd. Show Notes: https://eftp.co/paul-watsonNewsletter ...
Listen#9 - No Soil, No Sunshine, No Problem! Meet the Farmer of the Future, Growing Real Food Indoors – Rob Laing, CEO of Farm.One from 2017-07-26T04:00
Rob Laing, the CEO of Farm.One is a farmer of the future! He runs a thriving hydroponic farm that specializes in growing rare and exotic herbs and greens – right out of the Institute of Culinary Ed...
Listen#8 - A Broken Food System: How Does Conventional Animal Agriculture Impact Our World (Reducetarian Summit Panel) from 2017-07-22T04:00
This episode features a recording of a panel discussion from the Reducetarian Summit, held in New York City in May 2017. The goal of the summit was to spark solution-driven conversations that can h...
Listen#7 - Ripple Foods: Adam Lowry on Creating a Ripple in the Food System from 2017-07-19T04:00
Adam Lowry, co-founder and co-CEO of Ripple Foods, is on a mission to create the purest plant protein and a ripple effect in the food system. Using a proprietary technology, Adam and his co-founder...
Listen#6 - David Bronner on Going Beyond Organic and Fighting the Industrial Food Machine from 2017-07-12T04:00
David Bronner, CEO of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, the top-selling brand of natural soaps in North America dishes some hard facts and truth about sustainable agriculture. David starts off by getting ...
Listen#5 - Secrets to Building a Plant-Based Food Empire with T.K. Pillan, Co-Founder of Veggie Grill from 2017-07-05T04:00
In this episode, I speak with T.K. Pillan, co-founder of Veggie Grill, the largest all vegan restaurant chain in the United States about his experience building a successful food business. T.K. is ...
Listen#4 - John Mackey of Whole Foods Market on the Healthiest Way to Eat for the Planet from 2017-07-01T04:00
I had the pleasure of sitting down with John Mackey, founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market to discuss his thoughts on how best to eat with the planet, keeping your personal health in mind. Mackey h...
Listen#3 - The Future of Meat Without Animals: Bruce Friedrich on How Technologies Like Plant-Protein and Cellular Agriculture Are Making it Possible from 2017-06-28T04:00
When it comes to understanding the future of food, there are few people who know more than Bruce Friedrich, the Executive Director of the Good Food Institute (GFI) and founding partner of New Crop ...
Listen#2 - Gene Baur Ends the Debate Between Vegans and Meat Eaters from 2017-06-21T04:00
Gene Baur, President of Farm Sanctuary talks about the problems with our food system and explore solutions both meat eaters and vegans can agree on. Gene has spent the past 30 years fighting for a ...
Listen#1- Khaled, the Vegan Saudi Prince on the End of Factory Farming and the Solution to Climate Change from 2017-06-14T04:00
Dive into the future of meat production and the battle against climate change with Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal, founder and CEO of KBW Ventures. Khaled is not your typical venture capitalist/inve...
ListenWhy #EatForThePlanet? from 2017-06-13T17:50
My goal with this podcast is to cut through the media noise and help people make food choices that provide them with maximum benefit and have minimum negative impact on our planet. The show will fe...
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