The Plantbased Business Hour: Recent Episodes
Elysabeth Alfano
Tune into The Plantbased Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano to hear from venture capitalists, CEOs, investors, analysts, entrepreneurs, start-ups, and even leaders in the traditional meat and dairy spaces who are launching new plant-based initiatives as they look towards progress and profitable new product lines. The world is changing and we are on the precipice of moving towards a better future with safer, more sustainable and healthier foods: plant-based products. Get a front row seat to this profitable and solution-oriented new business arena on The Plantbased Business Hour.
Elysabeth is taking a break from recording the Plantbased Business Hour this summer while she is away enjoying her travels and will be back in the fall with more episodes!
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Archive only. VegTech™ LLC ceased providing investment‑advisory services, and the EATV ETF was liquidated on May 7 2025. No investment advice is offered.
What would make a corporate lawyer write a children's book about the New York City Zoo owl, Flaco, that escaped to freedom? Join The Plantbased Business Hour and Awesome Vegans Podcast for an in depth conversation with Christine Mott about her new book, Flaco's flight and plight and the power of children's books.
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Archive only. VegTech™ LLC ceased providing investment‑advisory services, and the EATV ETF was liquidated on May 7 2025. No investment advice is offered.
Julie Kunen, Co-Lead Global Sustainability and Senior Director of Regenerative Agriculture Director, discusses what is next for Oatly and the sustainability successes and targets for 2030.
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Archive only. VegTech™ LLC ceased providing investment‑advisory services, and the EATV ETF was liquidated on May 7 2025. No investment advice is offered.
Professor and Senior Director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab, Dr. Sylvain Charlebois discusses the growing need for food system transformation and the structure that will allow for a rapid shift to take place on this new episode of The Plantbased Business Hour.
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Archive only. VegTech™ LLC ceased providing investment‑advisory services, and the EATV ETF was liquidated on May 7 2025. No investment advice is offered.
Why is the Department of Energy investing in food innovation? Mike Messersmith, CEO of Tender Food, shares how and why they got a grant from the Department of Energy.
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Archive only. VegTech™ LLC ceased providing investment‑advisory services, and the EATV ETF was liquidated on May 7 2025. No investment advice is offered.
New on the scene, the Tilt Collective is trying to encourage a shift to plant-based diets...is it too little, too late or the timing more than perfect?
Sarah Lake, CEO, explains their initiatives for creating global change on this edition of The Plantbased Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano.
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Archive only. VegTech™ LLC ceased providing investment‑advisory services, and the EATV ETF was liquidated on May 7 2025. No investment advice is offered.
Elysabeth wraps up 2024 and discusses the impending shift in food systems transformation beginning in 2025.
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Archive only. VegTech™ LLC ceased providing investment‑advisory services, and the EATV ETF was liquidated on May 7 2025. No investment advice is offered.
Why is Europe leading the world in plant-based options? Pascal Bieri, Co-Founder of Planted, discusses the struggles and successes of the European market and the recent turn towards sustainable eating.
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Archive only. VegTech™ LLC ceased providing investment‑advisory services, and the EATV ETF was liquidated on May 7 2025. No investment advice is offered.
Jason W. Ingle, Founder and Managing Partner of Third Nature Investments, joins Elysabeth Alfano on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss the powerful lever for societal and environmental impact that is investing in food system transformation.
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Archive only. VegTech™ LLC ceased providing investment‑advisory services, and the EATV ETF was liquidated on May 7 2025. No investment advice is offered.
Founder and CEO of Chunk Foods, Amos Golan, talks about the demand and success of thick, juicy, plant-based steaks and the global outlook for foodservice on today's Plantbased Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano.
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In this week’s Plantbased Business Hour episode, Elysabeth discusses whether or not the 2024 presidential election will change U.S. food policy.
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Caroline Cotto of Nectar Research and Tim Dale from Food Systems Innovation join me on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss the results of a recent study around consumer perception of blended (or plant-rich) meat. Do they like it? Do they hate it? Is it a sell-out?
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Founder of Mach Global Advisors, David Ziskind discusses the pros and cons of building out manufacturing or going with a contractor...and keeping it all sustainable.
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Food Systems Supply Chain Expert Jamie Valenti-Jordan discusses bringing resiliency to the diversified protein supply chain.
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After a busy week away, Elysabeth Alfano returns to recap Climate Week in NYC for 2024.
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2021 was supposed to be the year of plant-based chicken: nuggets, strips, patties were all the rage. CEO and Founder of Daring Chicken, Jeff Gendelman, takes us through the highs and lows of the plant-based chicken trajectory and the chances for success of the category.
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What is the state of the American Farmer? Is food insecurity in the US on the rise? What initiatives are upcoming to address feeding more people with fewer resources? What does the USDA science data tell us? Deputy Under Secretary of the USDA, Sanah Baig, is here for the big knowledge drop just months before the Farm Bill drop.
Additional Resources:
- Statement from Secretary Tom Vilsack on the 2022 Household Food Security in the U.S. Report
- USDA’s Website: https://www.usda.gov/
- USDA’s Research, Education, and Economics Mission Area Website: https://www.ree.usda.gov/ (this site links to all of our agency websites ARS, NIFA, ERS, NASS, Office of the Chief Scientist)
- USDA Climate Hubs: https://www.climatehubs.usda.gov/
- USDA Economic Research Service - Charts of Note: https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/charts-of-note/
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Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture and Executive Director of the Food Systems for the Future, Ertharin Cousin joins CEO of VegTech Invest to discuss the pivotal year of 2025 for food and other systems shifts.
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Chef and USDA-NIFA National Needs Research Fellow at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, Suzi Gerber, talks about the new research paper with FAIRR on Nutrition and Protein.
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Elysabeth discusses her outlook for Q4 of 2025 and the next two years in the plant-based sector.
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Monique Mikhail, Senior Program Manager, Climate and Agriculture Finance Program, and Kelly McNamara, Senior Research and Policy Analyst, at Friends of the Earth reveal some shocking environmental statistics from the banking industry's funding of animal agriculture.
Bull in the Climate Shop study: https://foe.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Bull-in-the-Climate-Shop_FR_FINAL.pdf
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CEO and Owner of Edlong, Laurette Rondenet, talks about how dairy-free and plant-based dairy flavors are nothing new, but that Edlong has taken the industry to new heights. We discuss Owning Your Legacy, the podcast and the vision. Get comfortable for an inspiring podcast.
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Meet Leo from Mattson: Innovation for the Food & Beverage Industry's new AI Agent and Change-maker in Food Innovation. Chief AI Officer Steve Gundrum joins me to take LEO out for a spin and show us the future of food.
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CEO of VegTech Invest and host Elysabeth Alfano is joined by Brittany Damico of O-Six Impact Partners to recap their time at the US SIF conference 2024 in Chicago.
The former Florida congressman mentioned in the podcast was Carlos Curbelo.
The article Brittany referred to is: https://www.morningstar.com/financial-advisors/reddit-posts-show-investors-care-about-climate-change-renewable-energy-evs
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Lisa Keefe, Editor in Chief at Alt-Meat Magazine joins Elysabeth Alfano at the Future Food Tech conference in Chicago where they discuss what Lisa is seeing in the alternative protein market and her predictions for the plant-based sector.
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Rohan Shirwaiker and Bill Aimutis, Co-Directors of the Bezos Earth Fund Bezos Center for Sustainable Proteins at North Carolina State University share the news about the new $30M grant for the center and its true and fast/slow approach to partnership, marrying food and science and addressing problems like food insecurity, planetary health and human health. It's a true game changer and market signal.
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Robert Barnett, Bloomberg Intelligence Energy Analyst, and Robert Du Boff, Bloomberg Intelligence ESG Analyst, join CEO of VegTech Invest, Elysabeth Alfano, to discuss the overlap of energy use and food systems and how shifting one can shift another.
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CEO Maria Cho of Triplebar joins me on The Plant-based Business Hour. We discuss the protein supply chain benefits provided by precision fermentation and when scaling will take place. If this topic sounds down in the weeds, you need to tune in to learn about the shifting building blocks of the global food supply system!
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Senior Director of Innovative Finance at the Milken Institute, Caitlin MacLean and Senior Director at Feeding Change, Holly Freishtat join Elysabeth on the Plantbased Business Hour to discuss blended capital and why institutional and philanthropic investors are focusing on food.
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Chief Investment Officer of VegTech Invest, Dr. Sasha Goodman, discusses the firm's recent white paper, in conjunction with Harvard University student, on Stakeholder Engagement for Plant-based Innovation & Diversified Proteins. Along with host, Elysabeth Alfano, the two discuss the top 5 findings of the white paper and the impact on the diversified proteins sector.
You can download the white paper here: https://www.vegtechinvest.com/white-paper
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On this week's episode, Elysabeth was on a panel at the Future of Protein Production conference. She was on the panel discussing investing in food systems transformation with Aleh Manchuliantsau, Founder and CEO or Planetarians, Fengru Lin, CEO and Co-founder of TurtleTree and Alex Shirazi, Co-Founder and Director of the Cultivated Meat Symposium. Enjoy hearing their panel discussion.
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Lots of good information and lots of misinformation is swirling around about the future viability of cultivated meat. The former owner of Daniele prosciutto and now cultivated meat investor, Davide Dukcevich discusses the outlook for cultivated meat AND the outlook for meat.
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Will Investors Embrace Food Systems Transformation? Mahesh Roy, Investor Strategies Programme Director of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change, discusses the IIGCC perspective on investing in food systems transformation to combat Climate Change and partake in the potential growth of the sector.
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Senior Research Analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, Jen Bartashus, joins host and CEO of VegTech™ Invest Elysabeth Alfano on The Plantbased Business Hour at the Farm, Food, & Fuel Summit. They discuss conference and their panel experiences as well as their predictions for the sector in the next five to ten years.
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In this episode of the Plantbased Business Hour, Elysabeth discusses the future of food with Chef James Corwell at the Culinary Institute of America's event in Napa Valley.
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Thomas Hohne-Sparborth, Head of Sustainability Research at Lombard Odier Investment Managers in Switzerland joins the Plantbased Business Hour. Host and CEO of VegTech Invest, Elysabeth Alfano, discusses with Thomas who pays and who benefits from food systems transformation.
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This week Elysabeth comes to you from Expo West in Anaheim, California. She discusses the state of the plant-based sector with Noah Hyams, Founder of Vegpreneur, and Rodd Willis, Director of Natural and Specialty at Dot Foods.
Hear about what kinds of products Elysabeth saw at Expo West and what the hot topic items were.
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George Khalife, V.P. of U.S. Capital Formation on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) joins Elysabeth to discuss taking Plant-based Innovation brands public on the exchange. They breakdown what you need to know before you IPO.
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On this episode of The Plantbased Business Hour, Elysabeth discusses the recent rise in stock price for Beyond Meat after their Q4 2023 earnings call
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How can you raise capital for your start-up or existing company in this restrictive economy? It is what is on almost every founder's mind. Jeffrey Harris, CEO of Green Venture Advisory, joins Elysabeth today on the Plantbased Business Hour to talk about the three things you need to know.
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Three-time founder, Yves Potvin, discusses the current state of Plant-based Innovation sector and how to grow a food business to be acquired. Having sold gardein to Conagra and Yves Veggie Cuisine to Hain Celestial, Yves is now championing Konscious Foods with a plan to be acquired. Learn from this ultra-successful pioneer on The Plant-based Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano.
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While traveling in India, Elysabeth asks her friend James Robinson about his plant-based journey and what products he enjoys to get insights into what consumers like him want out of the sector.
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Elysabeth recaps her time visiting Sri Lanka. She discusses all the incredible animals she saw but also the devastating effects of biodiversity loss due to climate change.
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When will plant-based milks be 50% of the milk category? Greg Steltenpohl of Califia Farms calls it on the Plantbased Business Hour. We also discuss 1) the necessary creativity in plant-based foods, 2) the hurdles he didn't see coming, 3) the synergy between plant-based production and the eco-system and 4) what he wished he knew 10 years ago.
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George Monbiot, author, journalist, and environmental activist, joins Elysabeth on the Plantbased Business Hour to discuss how to best fight for the planet and how to take no prisoners when it comes to taking on the meat industry and its lobby.
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Sonalie Figueiras, Founder of Green Queen, and I discuss sustainable food systems predictions for 2024: the good, the bad and the ugly. We get into it. Join us and bring your questions. The Plantbased Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano kicks off 2024.
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This week on the Plantbased Business Hour, Elysabeth recaps 2023 and shares her predictions for 2024.
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Roger Spitz (M.Sc., FCA, APF) is an international bestselling author, a celebrated futurist, the president of Techistential (Climate & Foresight Strategy), and the chair of the renowned Disruptive Futures Institute, based in San Francisco. On this episode of The Plantbased Business Hour we discuss how we can prepare for the disruption ahead and come out financially and consciously better. Vital information! Join us for this last interview of the year and get prepared for 2024.
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In this episode, Host Elysabeth Alfano recaps her time at COP28. This was the first COP to focus on food systems transformation, connecting the food system to climate change. Elysabeth shares all the highlights throughout the week, focusing on the finance discussions of blended capital to further meaningful change. She ends the week talking to Raphael Podselver from ProVeg International about their predictions for future COPs.
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Managing Director of Monitor Deloitte, Mathias Cousin, shares the advancements of the BioP2P network that is ensuring the health of the bio-manufacturing sector for sustainable food systems transformation. It's another fascinating episode of The Plantbased Business Hour.
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Glenn Hurowitz of Mighty Earth shares one of the best ways to protect the earth's biodiversity: alternative proteins. How? Why? When? We get into it all on The Plantbased Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano.
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This week Elysabeth recaps Retuers' Food Transformation USA 2023 conference. This small conference of around 120 people included those from many legacy food companies and pharmaceutical companies discussing food and farming. Regenerative agriculture and farming was a hot topic and Elysabeth dives into it all.
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Mary Fernandes, President of Solis Agrosciences, discusses, Plant Pipeline as a Service (PPaaS), plant transformation, gene editing and the future (or the now?) of food on today's episode of The Plantbased Business Hour.
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Dr. Sasha Goodman, Chief Investment Officer of VegTech Invest, joins Elysabeth Alfano, CEO of VegTech Invest to discuss what has happened to the Beyond Meat and Oatly Stocks and, conversely, the large landscape of Plant-based Innovation companies in the public markets that are thriving.
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Lewis Perkins, President of the Apparel Impact Institute discusses decarbonizing the fashion industry on the Plantbased Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano.
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What food will add four years to your life? What are the top five foods everyone should eat? What do all recipes for longevity have in common? From the Four Seasons-Santa Barbara, Blue Zones Founder and author of The Blue Zones Kitchen, Dan Buettner sits down with Elysabeth Alfano to dish on how Americans are forgoing 10-14 years of healthy longevity and how to fix this.
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Thierry Duvanel, Director of Innovation at Buhler gives real-world examples of sustainability goals being met and measured in scopes 1, 2, 3 by the Buhler Company. A beacon for other supply chain companies to meaningfully contribute to positive planetary change, Buhler is leading in cleaning up the food systems supply chain. Thierry explains how.
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In this episode Elysabeth gives a recap on the Plant Based World Expo 2023 and the Good Food Conference 2023. In the last half of the episode she is joined by Founding Partner at Alwyn Capital, Heather Courtney. They discuss the plant-based sector and the latest conferences.
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Mike Natale, Global Leader of Plant-based Protein, Ingredion, Yadu Dar, Director of Global Development, Ingredion and Jeremy Jones, Founder of SunDrip, discuss the highlights of the recent Ingredion State of the Plant-based Protein Event at Chicago's The Hatchery.
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Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Analyst Jen Bartashus gives us the up-to-the-minute analyses on the Plant-based Innovation sector in the public markets, including Beyond Meat and Oatly on this episode of The Plantbased Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano.
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Join us for the VegTech™ Invest free Impact Investing for Vegans webinar on August 24th at 1:30p ET.
In this webinar, we will discuss
-What is impact investing in the public markets?
-How can we impact invest for animals?
-What is an ETF and What is the EATV ETF?
-What is liquidity?
-What is diversification?
-What is risk management?
-Why are these things important to incorporate into our investing goals?
-What happened to the Beyond Meat and Oatly stocks?
-What should a vegan impact investor be wary of?
Think of this as a Finance/Investing 101 class specifically for vegans with the goal of impact investing to help remove animals from the supply chain while trying to create healthy returns for ourselves.
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Chief Strategy Officer of OMeat, Pavle Stojkovic gets down and dirty about cultivated meat. Can it scale? Can it reach cost parity? Will the consumer eat it? How much energy does it use anyway...will it success and if so, when?
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Dave Schroeder, Director of Regulatory and Corporate Affairs at Triton AI, discusses being the little engine that could, outlasting the economic downturn and takes us through the magic of algae at their SD plant with a tasting of their newest product Too Good To Be.
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Sunny Kumar of Black Sheep Foods joins me on The Plantbased Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano to discuss the world first and only plant-based lamb products, how they get that authentic flavor and just how (planet) healthy great taste can be.
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Joel Stone, Executive Director of Climate Systems Solutions, joins me on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss how regenerative ag and plant-based innovation can work together...if at all. It gets dicey as we dish on where we overlap and where we disagree. Please join us and bring your questions to discuss the future of food. Can it be sustainable? Can it be wholesome...and what does that even mean?
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Chief Commercial Officer of Plantible, Morgan Keim, is on the Plantbased Business Hour today at a special time for a special tour of the company's duckweed plant. Morgan discusses the sustainability and scalability of Plantible's Rubi Protein from duckweed and how it is taking a nature-based solution to fixing the world's food supply system and production.
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In this new episode of the Plantbased Business Hour, Elysabeth recaps her time at the Sun Valley Forum in Idaho. She shares her thoughts on the conference, the kinds of sustainability conversations people were having, and the great plant-based food they served.
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In this new episode of the Plantbased Business Hour, Elysabeth recaps the past 5-6 weeks of her travels around Europe. She shares insights into how other people in the finance world view the food system transformation and their push on regenerative agriculture.
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Investor and Author of Moo's Law: The Investor's Guide to the New Agrarian Revolution, Jim Mellon, joins me on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss his vision for the global shifting food supply chain. Tune in to hear this billionaire's predictions and top investment picks!
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The podcast I have been waiting years to record!
The All In Podcast's Sultan of Science: David Friedberg is on The Plantbased Business Hour with me to discuss how AI can impact the Plant-based Innovation sector (plant-based foods and alternative proteins) as well as what the sector can do to scale up production and reduce costs.
We also get into why the besties don't talk about Plant-based Innovation as part of an economic driver as much as they could. So much to discuss!
We dish on politics, the economy, innovation and culture...all as it relates to global food systems transformation. THIS is a Plantbased Business Hour you DON'T want to miss!
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The podcast I have been waiting years to record!
The All In Podcast's Sultan of Science: David Friedberg is on The Plantbased Business Hour with me to discuss how AI can impact the Plant-based Innovation sector (plant-based foods and alternative proteins) as well as what the sector can do to scale up production and reduce costs.
We also get into why the besties don't talk about Plant-based Innovation as part of an economic driver as much as they could. So much to discuss!
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Princeton BioEthics Professor and famed author of over 25 books including The Life You Can Save, the Most Good You Can Do and Animal Liberation, Peter Singer joins me on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss his newest book, Animal Liberation Now.
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How Is China, and Asia as a whole, impacting the Global Food Systems Transformation? Michal Klar of Better Bite Ventures and the Founder of the Future Food Now Newsletter joins me to discuss innovation, jobs, national security and the future of protein.
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Mr. Plant Chompers, Chris MacAskill, joins me on The Plantbased Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano to share why he created the super popular YouTube Channel Plant Chompers.
Often getting over 100k views, Chris talks about health and the science behind the health to help consumers understand the underpinnings of a healthy diet.
We will also discuss the business elements that can further misinformation. It's a very fun and nerdy Plantbased Business Hour!
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Senior Program Officer for the Open Philanthropy Project, Lewis Bollard, discusses if Animal Welfare is growing in recognition as an ESG investing principle. Join us today #live and bring your questions for this episode of The Plantbased Business Hour.
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Ian Monroe, President and CIO of Etho Capital joined me on the VegTech Invest Inside & Impact series and also The Plantbased Business Hour. We discuss impact investing to go from climate negative to climate positive through emissions avoidance, as we do at VegTech Invest.
Specifically, we discuss
- The Climate+Positive Initiative and what it accomplishes
- Who are the key players in Climate+Positive investing (spoiler alert: you)
- How to invest for Climate+Positive results
- What is the timeline for Climate+Positive impact.
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Bloomberg's Senior Research Analyst Jen Bartashus breaks down the REAL numbers (not the click-bait story) of the Plant-based Innovation trend.
We crack open the GFI State of the Industry Report for added understanding.
It's today's Plant-based Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano.
Join us for the real data and stats.
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Author of Plant-based On A Budget and influencer Toni Okamoto discusses her new book, Plant-based On A Budget: Quick and Easy, and her business plan for influencership. It's a thing.
Tune in for a special Plantbased Business Hour #today #live with Elysabeth Alfano.
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Aimée Christensen, CEO of Christensen Global, discusses scaling food solutions for local and global impact on today's episode of The Plantbased Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano.
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In this solo episode of the Plantbased Business Hour, Elysabeth shares tales of her latest travels to different food and tech conferences including Expo West, the Digital Animal Summit, and Future Food Tech. She provides a summation of the plant-based business world's first quarter of 2023 and her predictions for the rest of the year.
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Sharyn Murray, Investment Engagement Manager at the Good Food Institute discusses how ESG Frameworks can assist plant-based businesses in communicating their positive impact data to the outside world.
It's a tactical knowledge drop today on the Plantbased Business Hour.
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Can you invest for the whole person? What happens when you want more than just returns? Elysabeth Alfano, CEO of VegTech Invest, speaks with Bob DePasquale of Initiate Impact on The Plantbased Business Hour.
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We've all seen the Bloomberg article declaring plant-based meats a fad. Author of the article and long-time food reporter, Deena Shanker, joins Elysabeth Alfano on today's Plant-based Business Hour.
Are Plant-based Meats a fad and a flop? Elysabeth grills Deena Shanker on the legitimacy of the article. They get into it. Listen in!
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Enjoy this re-run of one of our favorite episodes!
Matias Muchnick of NotCo and Michael Natale of Ingredion join The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss the success of their unlikely partnership, each company's path towards furthering plant-based business and their vision for the future. And, of course, we chat about AI platform/program, Guiseppe!
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CEO of the Food System Innovations, David Meyer, joins me on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss the global food systems transformation towards sustainability, optionality and efficiency.
What will move the needle the most? Policy? Technology? Consumer Demand? Industry Sustainability? Lots to breakdown and we get to it all.
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I am joined by the CMO of Change Foods, Irina Gerry and the Founder of the Vegan Women Summit, Jennifer Stojkovic to discuss the State of the Plant-based Foods and Innovation Industry.
Is the sector dead? Has the media gotten it wrong? Is there positive data to report? Where is the sector headed? Have your own thoughts? Share them with me on Linkedin!
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CEO of Israel's incubator, The Kitchen Hub, Jonathan Berger discusses Israel's leadership in Plant-based Innovation, what we can expect to see in 2023 in the sector globally and the role government plays in fostering innovation.
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Maha Tahiri, Founder of Nutrition Sustainability Strategies, joins me today on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss sustainability and health goals for corporations and brands and what the years ahead will be for clean, short, healthy labels and ingredients.
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Anna Bohbot, Global Food & Beverage Manager for Linkedin, and Katie Cantrell, CEO of Greener by Default, discuss a great way for your company - and you! - to get in Climate Shape this New Year, 2023. Join us on The Plantbased Business Hour and bring your questions! Things get green!
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An intimate start to the year. In this first Plantbased Business Hour episode of 2023, Elysabeth shares some beginning of the year headlines, her Top 10 ways that the Plant-based Food Sector will dig itself out to find market strength in 2023 and her top 5 predictions for the year...plus a few bonus tips!
It is a special New Year's edition of the Plant-based Business Hour.
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How does one of the most exciting upstarts of The Great Food Systems Shift see the future for alt protein and sustainable food consumption?
Andre Menezes of TiNDLE Foods, Next Gen Foods and I take a deep dive into how 2022 went down and our predictions for 2023 and the diruption of the chicken market.
Listen in for the last The Plantbased Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano podcast of the year!
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Bloomberg Senior Analyst Jen Bartashus Reports on the Plant-based Innovation Industry and makes predictions for the sector for 2023.
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Klaus Mitchell, Founder & Co-Director of Plant Based News, joins me on the Plantbased Business Hour to wrap up 2022 and share his predictions for 2023. They aren't what you think. Listen in!
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Catherine Tubb, Director of Research at Synthesis Capital and Co-Author of Rethinking Food & Agriculture 2020-2030, shares her projections for the Plant-based Innovation & Alternative Proteins sector on The Plant-based Business Hour.
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On a long trip to COP27 in Egypt to speak on a call for investing from the public and private markets in Plant-based Innovation and Alternative Proteins, Elysabeth shares her thoughts from Q3 & 4 in the sector from her final destination: Dubai. There she attended the Alternatives Investment Summit to discuss the growth of the Plant-based Innovation sector.
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LIVE from COP27 with the ProVeg International Director of UN Affairs, Raphaël Podselver and I discuss the COP27 recap. Have food systems finally been put on the UN's negotiations list?
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This week The Plantbased Business Hour heads to the Cultured Meat Symposium. Hear about the growing infrastructure of cultivated meat from the Co-Founder and CEO of OceanTastes Inc., Peter Nesaei, and Founder and CEO of Micro Meat, Dr. Anne Sophie-Mertgen.
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MycoTechnology is Alt Protein's Secret Giant: Marketing Director, Jonas Feliciano & Senior Director, Strategy, Lisa Wetstone share MycoTechnology's approach to growth, raising and communicating with the consumer about the mighty mushroom's new fermented frontier.
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CEO of Prime Roots, Kimberlie Le, joins me on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss the magic of microbes-a whole food, Koji mushroom pate and taking over the deli counter.
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CEO of Prime Roots, Kimberlie Le, joins me on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss the magic of microbes-a whole food, Koji mushroom pate and taking over the deli counter.
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Dr. William Aimutis, Executive Director of the North Carolina Food Innovation Lab and Celia Homyak UC Berkley Alt Meat Lab discuss what innovations are happening at the U.S.'s most premiere labs. Tune in!
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The Executive Director of Cruelty-Free Investing, Dave Brett Wasser, joins me on the Plantbased Business Hour to discuss the state of effective altruism, and cruelty-free and plant-based innovation investing.
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Rodd Willis of Dot Foods and Danny O'Malley from Before the Butcher join me on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss the state of plant-based foods from a food service and white label perspective.
These areas of the plant-based business sector are often overlooked and they are major drivers showing growth.
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Actor James Cromwell joins the Plantbased Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano to discuss Hollywood taking on plant-based content and what that looks like. Also, how do YOU combine your skillset to have a meaningful career and make an impact? Want to find YOUR truth?We get into it!
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Barb Stuckey, Chief Innovation & Marketing Officer at Mattson, details the whitespaces in the plant-based sector, how to communicate to the new plant-based consumer and the marketing lessons that start-ups need to learn. Listen in to The Plantbased Business Hour.
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Ian Roberts, CTO at Bühler Group, talks global sustainability, the alternative proteins and plant-based innovation market and building key partnerships on today's Plantbased Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano.
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Host Elysabeth Alfano gives her perspective of the State of Plant-based Investing for 2022 and beyond in this podcast episode.
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I am joined by Ingredion's Kimberly Frey, Ingredion's Chef Nelson Serrano Bahri, The Hatchery's Dani Zuchovicki and Chef Huan Xia of Alchemeat to discuss Chicago as the new Plant-based Hub and Ingredion's most recent Plant-based BBQ Cook-off!
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Larissa Zimberoff Author of "Technically Food: Silicon Valley's Mission to Change What We Eat" is on The Plantbased Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano. We discuss how the Plant-based Foods and Alternative Proteins Industry has been under attack from the press on health claims, repurchasing numbers and its strength and viability for the growth.
Are the critics right or is this a mask of negative campaigning for meat industry interests? It gets dicey.
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PODCAST: Want to know all things chickpea? CEO Taly Nechushtan of Innovopro is on The Plantbased Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano. We discuss the world of chickpeas and how this ingredient is going to change the landscape of the plant-based protein industry.
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PODCAST: When will plant-based milks be 50% of the milk category? Greg Steltenpohl of Califia Farms calls it on the Plantbased Business Hour. We also discuss 1) the necessary creativity in plant-based foods, 2) the hurdles he didn't see coming, 3) the synergy between plant-based production and the eco-system and 4) what he wished he knew 10 years ago.
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CEO of Liberation Labs, Mark Warner, discusses the scaling potential of novel, fermented proteins on this episode of The Plantbased Business Hour.
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CEO of Plant Power Fast Food, Jeffrey Harris, joins The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss the company's newest pricing move and how plant-based burgers stack up to inflation.
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Moviefone Co-Founder Adam Slutsky is the plant-based market's newest big investor. Current Managing Partner of Gather Ventures, hear Adam's 1) investing strategy, 2) his take-aways from being a 3x tech entrepreneur, 3) his mentorship plan and 4) his predictions for the next 3-5 years of plant-based opportunities on The Plantbased Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano.
The Plantbased Business Hour airs live every Tuesday and Thursday at 1p PT on my Linkedin page.
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LIVE from Uzwil/Zurich Switzerland, I visit Buhler Group's Start-up Tent at Networking Days 22, stopping at 6 start-ups booth: Jellatech, Pearlita, Veggie Victory, No Palm Ingredients, Hooked and Napiferyn Biotech.
I meet with founders of plant-based meats, alternative proteins and cultivated seafood. It's the future of food served up from pivotal plant-based player, Buhler Group, at it's global headquarters with a quick overview from Global Head of Communications, Burkhard Bondel.
Investment Director of FootPrint Coalition, Manuel Waenke and Sushmita Venkatraman, Director of Marking and Swami Srinivas, Director of Organism Engineering at Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. join me at the Future Food-Tech for a discussion on the growth of the Plant-based Innovation Sector. It's another episode of The Plantbased Business Hour from the road. This time I hit NYC!
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Director of Engineering, Next Gen Ag, David Ziskind of Black and Veatch answers this hot question: if plant-based products are so popular, why aren't there more of them?
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Jerry Gamez, former Meatless Farm Executive and Board Member and former CEO and Board Director at Le Pain Quotidien and its Board joins me on the Plantbased Business Hour to discuss what is happening outside the plant-based bubble.
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Thomas Schumann, Sustainability Pioneer, explains how you can invest in water in this 'Water Century' to impact critical life on the planet. We discuss how Plant-based Innovation and Alternative Proteins positively impact U.N. Sustainable Development Goals 2, 3, 6, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, with perhaps its biggest impact on 6: Clean Water and Sanitation. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based market consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com.
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Four-decade owner, Jeff Stanford gives me a tour of the gorgeous Stanford Inn and Resort - all vegan - in Mendocino, CA! A dream get-away! We discuss the growing interest in vegan and eco-friendly hospitality from the Stanford Inn farm.
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Is cultivated fish possible? If so, what will it take to make enough fish from cells to feed the world? Find out from Co-Founder Arye Elfenbeim of Wildtype!
Specifically, we discuss 1. The benefit of cultivated fish over wild-caught or commercially farmed fish, 2. How Wildtye gets its cell lines, 3. What is the medium / serum used, 4. How hard is it to scale and 5. Is FDA approval pending?
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Sunny Kumar of Black Sheep Foods joins me on The Plantbased Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano to discuss the world first and only plant-based lamb products, how they get that authentic flavor and just how (planet) healthy great taste can be.
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Former CEO of VFC, Matthew Glover, is on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss the recent video that takes on KFC's claims of humane animal treatment. We also discuss Matthew's long, long history in the vegan movement with Veganuary, Million Dollar Vegan and Veg Capital. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com.
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What will it take for cultivated meat to succeed? CEO Eric Jenkusky, of cultivated meat scaffoliding biotech company Matrix F.T., is on The Plantbased Business Hour. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast!
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Former Co-CEO of Whole Foods, Walter Robb, discusses the state of today's grocery stores in a potentially post Covid world on the Plantbased Business Hour. Tune in to hear if DTC is here to stay, if grocery stores will reallocate real estate to vegan brands and if the consumer will ever be ready to accept cellular meat.
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CEO of Boosh Plant-based Brands, Jim Pakulis discusses if plant-based consumption will catch up with skyrocketing plant-based investing on this edition of The Plantbased Business Hour. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com.
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Live! A guided tour of The Better Meat Co. with Paul Shapiro on The Plantbased Business Hour. After the tour, it is a taste test of bacon, burgers, sausages and more! Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast!
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LIVE FROM FUTURE FOOD TECH: Anuj Maheshwari, Head of Agri-Food Investing at Temasek discusses their strategy for plant-based innovation and alternative proteins throughout the supply chain (AKA VegTech-type investing.) Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com.
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Beyond Meat's Head of Communication, Shira Zackai Discusses Beyond's nutritional and planetary impact on The Plantbased Business Hour. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com.
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Nil Zacharias of Plantega is creating plant-based deli menus for bodegas across New York.
What has the field marketing taught this Co-Founder about plant-based consumption, repeat purchases and the adoption curve?
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LIVE from Ingredion's Expo West Booth: Matt Olsofsky, Founder of Take Two Milk, Jorge Azevedo, Chief Growth Officer of Planter, Beth Tormey, VP and General Manager Systems and Ingredient Solutions, Ingredion and Karen E. Constanza, Marketing Manager, Meat Alternatives, Ingredion. They all answer the same question: will alt protein persist through what the FT calls the Trough of Disillusionment?
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Author Dick Munson (Tech To Table) discusses if blockchain technology will transform the food supply system on The Plantbased Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com. Connect with Elysabeth on Linked in here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elysabeth-alfano-8b370b7/ For more PBH, visit ElysabethAlfano.com/Plantbased-Business-Hour
CEO of Wicked Kitchen and Former General Mills Exec, Pete Speranza, talks plant-based business trends on The Plant-based Business Hour. Start-ups and investors take note! This interview will discuss the burgeoning secular trend of plant-based innovation and how to take part in the industry growth.
Investor and Author of Moo's Law: The Investor's Guide to the New Agrarian Revolution, Jim Mellon, joins me on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss his vision for the global shifting food supply chain. Tune in to hear this billionaire's predictions and top investment picks! Subscribe! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com.
Jeremy Coller, Managing Partner of Coller Capital, Preeminent Food Tech Investor and Funder of Farm Animal Investment Risk and Return (FAIRR) joins me on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss the risks of investing in animal agriculture and the growing number of investors (representing $47T in capital) pushing for higher standards and change. Subscribe now to The Plantbased Business Hour.
The President of VegTech Invest, Sasha Goodman, Managing Partner of Kambio Partners, Ken Kornbluh, and Founder of DEA Wealth, Chris Buck, join me on the Plantbased Business Hour to discuss VegTech Invest, the making of an ETF on the New York Stock Exchange, and the potential secular trend of plant-based innovation. Subscribe now to the Plantbased Business Hour.
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CEO of EatWell Group, Marc Aneed, joins me on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss investing up and down the plant-based supply chain. Tune in to learn about the structural growth of this secular trends.
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Head of Global Marketing of Eat JUST inc, (Eat JUST and GOOD Meat), Tom Rossmeissl, joins me on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss branding in a flexitarian and increasingly competitive world.
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Head of Global Marketing of Eat JUST inc, (Eat JUST and GOOD Meat), Tom Rossmeissl, joins me on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss branding in a flexitarian and increasingly competitive world.
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Climate Change, Animal Agriculture and What The Heck? Middlebury Professor Jason Scorse is on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss the Masters of Art in International Environmental Policy and Environmental Justice program, The Center for the Blue Economy and what you can do now to have a positive impact on climate change. Tune in. Things will get heated. We are talking Climate Change after all.
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Macy Marriott of GlassWall Syndicate and Elaine Siu of Material Innovation Initiative join me on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss if Alt Materials will be as strong as Alt Protein in the marketplace. Hear about the latest investments and innovations in the next big sector.
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Raphael Podselver of ProVeg International, Lasse Bruun of 50by40 and Carrie Varoquiers of Cool Planet Food discuss their experiences at COP26 and why animal agriculture wasn't on the agenda for impacting climate change. Join us to learn what YOU can do on The Plantbased Business Hour.
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Miller Tran, VP of Research and Development and Founding Member of Triton Algae Innovations, and I discuss heme made from non-GMO algae and if it can replace animal heme, given the latter's negative health implications. It's the Plantbased Business Hour.
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Aqua Cultured Foods Co-Founders Anne Palermo and Brittany Chibe are on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss seafood from fungi, the food revolution and their big capital raise.
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Disrupting Pizza: Founder of NXT LVL PZA Fabio Matticoli takes on Domino's with his accidentally vegan pizza on The Plantbased Business Hour. The brand launched in London this week. Fabio discusses the global pizza market, the future of vegan pizza, what he wish he knew before he started and raising pizza capital.
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The OG of plant-based, Co-Founders of Hungry Planet, Inc., Jody Boyman and Todd Boyman join me on The Plantbased Business Hour. We discuss their long journey in plant-based: the good, the bad, and the future.
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Daniel Kennedy, Global Business Development Director, Plantbased Protein at Ingredion, Scott Cowger, VP National Sales Manager of CII Foods, Brett Featherston, VP Global Sales of Evanesce, and Andy Sharpe CEO/President, North America of Buhler join me live from Buhler North American HQ to discuss the lifecycle of plant protein, the newest innovations and more on The Plantbased Business Hour.
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Hooray Foods! Sri Artham, Founder and CEO of Hooray Foods has some big news. We are talking plant-based bacon, prosciutto and more on today's Plantbased Business Hour.
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BREAKING! Mike Woliansky and Sadrah Schadel, Founders of No Evil Foods, tell their story and share the progress they have made over the last turbulent 18 months during a difficult period that often played itself out in the media.
Abby Lyall and Tom Mastrobuoni of Big Idea Ventures join the interview to share details about the new bridge loan and tips for entrepreneurs. This episode is for every entrepreneur who has ever struggled, wondered if they could still keep going and have had to dig deep to find the courage to take the next steps.
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CEO and Co-Founder of Melibio, Darko Mandich joins me on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss making honey without the bees and why this is mission critical. Listen in to learn about the secret life of bees and plant-based and fermented protein honey - yes, it's a thing.
Kelp, algae and the state of our oceans...CEO and Founder of Akua, Courtney Boyd-Myers and I discuss all this and more on The Plantbased Business Hour. The Plantbased Business Hour is live every Tuesday at 1p PT on my Linkedin profile page.
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Kartik Dixit of Evo Foods explains India's move towards clean protein and what it is going to take to get there on The Plantbased Business Hour. We discuss the company's plant-based egg products and India's view of plant-based eating.
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Maiko Van Der Meer, Co-Founder of Novish, joins me on the Plantbased Business Hour to discuss the state of plant-based seafood-growing 23%- and the Novish launch in the U.S.
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Mycoprotein: what is it and why? I chat with Paul Shapiro AND take a tour of the new mycoprotein plant recently opened by The Better Meat Co. We'll learn how the superfood Rhiza is changing the alt protein landscape. Join us and dive into the details of fungi and what it means for meat production.
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Can food be the solution to many of the world's problems? Founder of Upton's Naturals, Daniel Stackmann, along with company VP, Nicole Sopko think so. Listen into this rare interview from the WGN Radio studios with Nicole and Daniel who are in the small group of entrepreneurs who have never taken outside funding.
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Tasneem Karodia and Absie Pantshwa of Mzansi Meat join Elysabeth Alfano on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss food insecurity and a growing middle class in Africa, and the cultivated meat that will feed them.
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Billionaire John Paul DeJoria, Co-Founder of the John Paul Mitchell Hair Care System discusses being the first in the industry to refuse to animal test and what is means to forge your own path on The Plantbased Business Hour.
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How will China feed its 1.4B people? David Yeung, Founder of Omnipork, now availble in Asia, the U.K and the U.S., talks about China's plant-based growth and what the rest of the world can expect as the global food supply system shifts to plant-based with China as a major player.
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The All-Star Roster of Fermented and Bio-Mass Proteins: Jevan Nagarajah of Better Dairy, Jason Rosenberg of Remilk, Hille van der Kaa of Those Vegan Cowboys, Inja Radman of New Culture and Bryan Tracy of Superbrewed join me on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss the reality of cheese and milks without the cow. We are cracking the code and leading the way for a global shifting food supply system!
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Can We Print Meat? Simon Fried of MeaTech3D Explains on The Plantbased Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano. Join us to find out about the future of meat.
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Don’t know what Air Protein is? Dr. Lisa Dyson joins me on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss just that and how protein made from CO2 could help to swiftly shift the global food supply system.
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Matias Muchnick of NotCo and Michael Natale of Ingredion join The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss the success of their unlikely partnership, each company's path towards furthering plant-based business and their vision for the future. And, of course, we chat about AI platform/program, Guiseppe!
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CMO of Change Foods, Irina Gerry, joins me on The Plantbased Business Hour. Does the consumer understand technology in their food? How do we communicate in a way that is appetizing, while also conveying that tech in our food is not new and not bad? Tune in! It's all about the language of (food) love.
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What is the State of Plant-based Business? Julie Emmett of the Plant Based Foods Association and Caroline Bushnell of Good Food Institute join me on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss exciting new data around plant-based trends and innovations and if plant-based meat will be 10% of the meat market in 3 years.
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How can we shift the food system to get animals out of the supply chain, right down to veganic farming? I talk to Nathaniel Salpeter of Sweet Farm about Tech Ag, his sense of purpose for helping to shift the food supply system and his work with Sweet Farm. Tune in!
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CEO of Lightlife Foods and Field Roast, Dan Curtin and I discuss the history of the brands, the emergence of great tasting products, the Lightlife expansion plan, the power of a plant-based paycheck and our predictions.
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LIVE FROM BUHLER, North American HQ! As the U.S. heads back to the office and socialization, I take the Plantbased Business Hour on the road to meet with Anshuman Bhatia, Plant Protein Product Line Manager at Cargill, Matt McGuffey, Manager of Savory Taste and Wellbeing at Givaudan, Bill Aimitus, Executive Director of the North Carolina Food Innovation Center and Andy Sharpe, CEO of Buhler North America for this episode of The Plantbased Business Hour.
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Investor and Author of Moo's Law: The Investor's Guide to the New Agrarian Revolution, Jim Mellon, joins me on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss his vision for the global shifting food supply chain. Tune in to hear this billionaire's predictions and top investment picks!
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The plant-based Egg market is up 167% according to the Plant Based Foods Association. Arturo Elizondo, CEO of Clara Foods®, and I discuss the disruption happening in the egg market and the desperate need for a shift to eggs without the chickens...in our lifetime!
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The Latest Advancements in Cellular Meat: Hear From The Founders Leading The Way.
Patricia Bubner of Orbillion, Niever Martinez Marshall of Novel Farms, Benjamina Bollag of HigherSteaks, and Stephanie Michelson on Jellatech join me on the Plantbased Business Hour.
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Kees Kruythoff, former President of North America of Unilver and Current Chairman and CEO, of The LIVEKINDLY Collective joins me to discuss if plant-based or cellular/cultivated meat will be the dominating force to shift the global food supply system.
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Would you try Cultivated Meat? Let me know your answer on Linkedin!
Until then, it's the Plantbased Business Minute, with the week's top headlines.
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Target joins the party.
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88% of Gen Z is open to trying cultivated meat.
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U.S. considers funding for alternative proteins.
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The Future of Fast Food: Kim Anderson of Plant City and Plant City X, Seth Goldman of PLNT Burger, Eat The Change and Beyond Meat, Zach Vouga of Plant Power Fast Food and TK Pillan of Veggie Grill and Stand Up Burger join me to discuss the changing landscape of fast food...for the better! You don't want to miss this.
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What will be the year NotCo IPOs? Tell me your guess...meanwhile here are the highlights from this week.
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Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine sues the U.S.D.A.
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Eleven Madison Park becomes more than a 10 for plant-based eaters thanks to Chef Daniel Humm.
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Hawaii is the first U.S. state to declare a climate state of emergency.
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California political hopeful John Cox makes a cox-less move by endangering people and animals on the campaign trail.
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Grounded Foods CEO, Veronica Fil, joins me on the Plantbased Business Hour to discuss
- the hurdles of a start-up,
- scaling the products,
- packaging and shipping dilemmas
- communications with the consumer,
- what went wrong along the way,
- tips for start-ups for getting funding,
- her predictions for plant-based cheese.
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Tom Mastrobuoni of Big Idea Ventures (and formerly CFO of Tyson Ventures) is on The Plantbased Business Hour with me to discuss a shifting food supply system. We discuss,
- The shifting landscape of farming,
- The innovations in plant-based food, precision fermentation and cellular agriculture,
- The failure of recycling programs,
- Can everyone just do whatever they want to the environment and animals because everyone should be allowed to do whatever they want,
- What is the critical role that banking plays in protecting the environment.
- How universities could be the bridge between rural communities and a progressive food supply system,
- And the continued abuse of chickens at industrial scale.
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This week's Top Headlines on the Plantbased Business Minute are all about chicken!
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Eat Just, Inc. cellular chicken goes for home delivery with Food Panda.
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Purdue Chicken promotes the industry feeding chicken blood to chickens.
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@Atlas Monroe @Deborah Torres is set to be the world's largest producer of Vegan Fried Chicken.
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Rumor has it that Burger King will drop a plant-based Chicken Royale burger.
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The founders of Juicy Marbles Plant-based Steaks, Tilen Travnik, Maj Hrovat, Luka Sincek and Vlad Mickovic are on the Plantbased Business Hour to answer how they make the world's first plant-based steaks and what is the future of plant-based whole cut meats.
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It was fun to share breaking news on my Plantbased Business Minute this week.
PLUS, what is the city that sells the most Tofurky Roast? The answer will surprise you. Share your guess with me on Linkedin.
Here is this week's Top Three Headlines. 1. OmniPork debuts in the U.S. 2. Vejii agrees to buy Vegan Essentials 3. Saks Fifth Avenue commits to end the sale of fur.
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Plant-based Consumer Research Expert and Co-Founder of Moonshot Collaborative Che Green discusses the growing flexitarian market and the finer points to effectively reaching them.
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What is the year that you think meat will no longer be the majority player?
It's the Plantbased Business Minute,
1. Impossible Foods Likes Meat and an IPO.
2. Plant-based Foods are up 27% in 2020 and plant-based meats are up 45% according to The Good Food Institute and the Plant Based Foods Association.
3. ProVeg Incubator, Vejii, Nestle, WildGood, Australia and The Netherlands make big moves this week.
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Jerry Gamez, former Meatless Farm Executive and Board Member and former CEO and Board Director at Le Pain Quotidien and its Board joins me on the Plantbased Business Hour to discuss what is happening outside the plant-based bubble.
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- Mainstream Burgers by Before the Butcher, one of the only plant-based items to reach price parity with analogue products, celebrated its exclusive availability on Vejii by teaming up with the on-line shopping platform and giving away free meals, burgers and swag in Austin.
- LiveKindly Collective raises $535M in its first year making it one of the top three highest funded and fastest growing plant-based companies.
- Grounded Foods has launched its line of cheeses from upcycles cauliflower and hemp seeds.
Plus, the question of the week for plant-based brands: is plant-based enough.
Kory Zelickson, CEO and CO-Founder of Vejii Holdings Inc, set to be the largest on-line retailer of vegan goods, joins me on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss the future of on-line shopping in a shifting and ever-complicated world.
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It's Friday..time for the Plantbased Business Minute!
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Hermès, MycoWorks, Stella McCartney, Bolt Fabrics, Victoria and Albert Museum take center stage.
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Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Blue Horizon Corporation unleash incredible alt protein predictions. $290B by 2035.
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Seaspiracy is out on Netflix. What do plant-based investors think?
What is the most common mistake made by plant-based businesses? Tune in!
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Dan Altschuler Malek of Unovis Capital joins me on the Plantbased Business Hour with tips for both entrepreneurs and investors.
How To Pick A Winning Plant-based Start-Up? What valuations make sense? How important are numbers in a deck? We get into it all!
We discuss what Dan looks for in a founder, why he doesn't invest in public markets and the key to building a successful company.
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It's the Plantbased Business Minute with the week's top headlines.
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Barvecue breaks ground on the world's largest plant-based smokehouse.
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2020 investment in plantbased innovation is 2x the amount from 2010-2020.
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Nabati, Meatech 3D and NotCo plan for IPOs.
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It's the Plantbased Business Minute for the week ending March 12, 2021.
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Juicy Marbles is in the house! The World's FIRST Plant-based Steak is here! Filet Mignon, no less! Look what Slovenia is up to!
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Price parity for Cellular Meat by 2030.
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The U.K. continues to top the charts with Oatly and OmniPork.
Question of the week: Is it just 'crazy, stupid' investor money out there? Join me weekly Plantbased Biz Breakfast Clubhouse to discuss this and more on Fridays at 7:30a PT.
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Plant-based Impact Investor Willem Blom joins me on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss if the EU has stalled on plant-based initiatives, what European companies are kicking butt and taking names and how the Netherlands is the 'little country that could' in terms of plant-based innovation. Plus, Willem shares the products that he would like to see in the marketplace that aren't yet there. Tune in.
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Clubhouse and Linkedin questions for the week: When will plant-based, fermented and cellular protein be the majority protein in the market?
This week's news on the Plantbased Business Minute:
1) Ingredion Incorporated opens a monumental, state-of-the-art plant-based protein facility,
2) Smart Protein and ProVeg International's study from Nielsen data shows that European plant-based sales are up 49% for the last 2 years and
3) VegTech: The Global Vegan Impact and Innovation Index hits the market tracking 21 companies that are innovating to take animals out of the supply chain.
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My question for the week: If Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods have cracked the code for the burger, who will crack the code for cheese?
This week on the Plantbased Business Minute: Follow Your Heart / Earth Island, Danone, Oatly, Beyond Meat, KFC US, Pizza Hut, McDonald's, and predictions for the plant-based protein market, make the top headlines.
Be sure to catch the Plantbased Business Hour live every Tuesday at 1p PT on LinkedIn and join in on the Plantbased Business Breakfast: Tomorrow's Headlines Today on Clubhouse, Fridays at 7:30a PT.
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Each week I break down the top headlines. Let's get into it.
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Has plant-based gone mainstream? Ask PepsiCo!
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Dandies Marshmallows heads to the U.K. (Children cheer!)
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Eat Just gets a new outcome under pressure and the egg industry gets an egg in the face.
For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com.
CEO of Atlast Food Co. and Co-Founder of Ecovative, Eben Bayer discusses the true power of the mushroom. There might be hope for the world after all. It's the Plantbased Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano. Tune in to learn how mushrooms can be used to create eco-friendly packaging materials, foam leather, and whole cuts of meat. Could leaning into biology create solutions to the world's largest environmental problems? We discuss: -Mycellium as the original internet. (Yes, you'll want to hear this.) -Mushroom are not plants or animals -Mushrooms are naturally repellent and strong, able to withstand and create pressure, thus making them building blocks -Mushrooms as scaffolding for cellular agriculture -Solid State Fermentation -The efficiency of vertical farming of mushrooms for 'meat' as compared to animal agriculture. -MyBacon, the Atlast Food Co's company MyEats produces the first MyBacon products out this year. -Living Off the Grid -Our favorite mushroom joke. Enjoy! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out to ElysabethAlfano.com
Question: As more companies add plant-based product lines to their meat and dairy product lines, at what point do they become part of the solution and no longer part of the problem?
It's the weekly wrap up of headlines on the Plantbased Business Minute.
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60 Minutes, Bill Gates, Anderson Cooper and Thomas Jonas of Nature's Fynd.
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Moonshot Collaborative, David Benzaquen and Che Green share critical learnings.
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Hershey's Kisses, Nestlé, Herseys, BMW Group, Adidas all get a vegan make-over which a certain MSNBC reporter has trouble understanding.
For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com.
If it's Friday, it is the Plant-based Business Minute. Oatly, Aleph Farms and VFChave all made the week's top headlines.
In addition, I have added a new section- The Question of the Week - at the end, inspired by pal and respected colleague Paul Shapiro.
So let me know your thoughts everyone: if plant-based consumption is soaring, why is global meat consumption still growing?
For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com.
Former Co-CEO of Whole Foods, Walter Robb, discusses the state of today's grocery stores in a potentially post Covid world on the Plantbased Business Hour.
Tune in to hear if DTC is here to stay, if grocery stores will reallocate real estate to vegan brands and if the consumer will ever be ready to accept cellular meat.
For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com.
Each week I break down the top headlines in a minute or less on the Plantbased Business Minute.
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Vegconomist-the vegan business magazine-adds a French site to its empire of English, German, Chinese and Spanish sites.
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How Future Meat Technologies proves that cellular agriculture is the next logical innovate step in meat production.
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McPlant is out. The race is on.
For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com.
Fellow Consultant, Gerrit Scuhlmann of Bright Green Partners joins me (Plant Powered Consulting) on the Plantbased Business Hour to discuss the path forged by large scale companies in the plant-based arena.
We discuss 1) the increase in B2B plant-based supplies, 2) the role governments play in shifting supporting new technologies and 3) should meat companies cannibalize their product lines with plant-based lines? Hint: Ask Apple.
For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com.
Is cultivated meat the answer to peace in the Middle East? Didier Toubia, CEO of Aleph Farms, joins me to discuss 1) the process of cultivated meat, 2) why making food for a growing planet is 'missing the point', 3) making food for life in space, 4) designing emotions, not food and 5) the importance of humility. Oh, and peace in the Middle East.
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It is the Plantbased Business Minute. Here are the headlines.
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Vejii Holdings Inc disrupts a major pain point for vegans by offering over 3000 lifestyle and food brands in one place such as Barvecue, No Evil Foods, Dear Self Skin Care and Vegan Wines.
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Lightlife Foods ups their investment in plant-based food production and jobs!
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Before the Butcher takes on price parity to beef with their Mainstream Burgers.
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It turns out vegan wines work for everyone!
For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com.
CEO of The Better Meat Co. and author of the Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World, Paul Shapiro joins me to discuss 1) why blended plant-based/meat hybrid products make sense, 2) the future of cultivated meat and fermented proteins and 3) the business models that will win out in the end.
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CEO of The Better Meat Co. and author of the Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World, Paul Shapiro joins me to discuss 1) why blended plant-based/meat hybrid products make sense, 2) the future of cultivated meat and fermented proteins and 3) the business models that will win out in the end.
Subscribe. New episodes every week.
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Each Week I break down the top three headlines each in a minute or less. 1)EU Dairy Lobby Goes to Extremes, 2) Veganuary blows 2020 away, 3) Very Good Butchers, Hooray Foods, Dr. Praeger's and Morningstar heads to Dunkin' Donuts.
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The Future of Food Is Here!
CEO and Co-Founder of Perfect Day Foods, Ryan Pandya, joins me on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss dairy without the cow. Yes. The future of food IS here. We discuss 1) precision fermentation, 2) is dairy made without the cow or the cows' actual DNA plant-based and/or healthy, 3) how do we communicate this to the consumer and 4) collaborations for the future.
PBH airs news episodes every week. Subscribe!
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It's the Plantbased Business Minute. Each Week I break down the top three headlines each in a minute or less.
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Potential Oatly IPO in 2021
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Cultivated Meat Company Aleph Farms signs a Memorandum of Understanding with Mitsubishi Food Industry Group.
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Impossible Foods lowers prices, Pret a Manger brings in plant-based meatballs and more!
New episodes every week! Subscribe!
For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com.
I breakdown my Top Ten (um, 13!) predictions for 2021. Happy New Year! 2020 is over!
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Financial Advisor Stephan Kerby is on The Plantbased Business Hour with me to discuss socially responsible investing. 1) Does it really make a difference? 2) How can we push these companies to truly earn any ESG label they throw around? 3) Can you invest in cruelty-free companies and turn a profit? 4) How does your current portfolio stack up again animal cruelty?
The Plantbased Business Hour airs new episodes every week. Subscribe!
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If it is Friday, then you know it is the Plantbased Business Minute! Each week I break-down the Top 3 Headlines, each in a minute or less.
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Plant&Bean brings on 55,000 tonnes of plant-based goodness.
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Impossible Foods grows its retail presence 100-fold and
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Jelly Belly Candy Company, the Duchess of Sussex and Oprah get us ready for the holidays.
For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com.
Is there a vegan revolution going on in the frozen section of the supermarket? Tyler Mayoras, CEO and Co-Founder of Cool Beans is on the Plantbased Business Hour with me to discuss 1) leading a new brand to growth and success during a pandemic, 2) hockey stick velocity turns and 3) the renaissance of the frozen food section and 4) the worst mistake brands can make. http://EatCoolBeans.com
For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com.
If it is Friday, then it is the Plantbased Business Minute. Each week I break down the Top 3 Headlines, each in a minute or less.
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France heads to the Middle Ages.
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The Paris Accords perhaps shouldn't be named after a European City.
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We are the Champions: well done Impossible Foods and Venus Williams!
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Vicki Benjamin and Andrew Niebler of Karner Blue Capital join me to discuss 1) if ESG investing really moves the needle for people, the planet and animals, 2) is it more marketing slogan than execution, 3) what kind of due diligence is needed to determine ESG standing and can we add A (animals) and B (biodiversity) to ESG.
The Plantbased Business Hour airs new episodes every week. Subscribe!
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I break down the top 3 headlines each in a minute or less on the Plantbased Business Minute:
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Singapore leads the way to regulating cultivated meat
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the world's larfest meat trade show includes plant-bsed meats
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plant-based pork goes for billions.
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Co-Founder of Impact Veganics, Margaux Khoury, discusses 1) the importance of eco-packaging, 2) the branding of Impact Veganics to be mission-aligned and 3) how every person from the consumer, to Sea Sheperd and every plant-based business in between can make a difference. http://CreateAnImpact.org
The Plantbased Business Hour has new episodes every week. Subscribe!
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Each week I break down the top headlines each in a minute or less. Let's get into it.
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Plantbased and Cellular agriculture are 60% of the meat market by 2040.
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The Very Good Butchers hit the U.S. of A.
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Unilver gets busy.
The Plantbased Business Hour and Plantbased Business Minute air new episodes every week. SUBSCRIBE!
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ZERO EGGS? How? Co-Founder, Liron Nimrodi & GM Isabelle Francois of Zero Egg break it down on the Plantbased Business Hour with me. Join us to learn about the novel technology that will let us all be egg-free for our health, for the planet and for the hens! We discuss 1) the environmental impact of eggs, 2) the market for Zero Egg and 3) the reception/reaction from food service.
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I break down this week's top 3 headlines on the Plantbased Business Minute. 1. McPlant. 2. 800% growth of plant based milks in China. 3. Is U.K. trading up from meat and fish counters to more plant-based options?
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Can we have cow's milk without the cow? Human milk without the human? Fengru Lin, Co-Founder of TurtleTree Labs joins me to discuss 1) disrupting the $716B animal milk industry, 2) invigorating the infant nutrition market and 3) the efficiency of technology in our food.
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Each week I break down the top 3 headlines in a minute or less on the Plantbased Business Minute.
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NotCo. and Impossible Foods get into plantbased dairy market in the U.S.
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Chickpeas are all the rage.
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A titanic demand for plant-based protein.
The Plantbased Business Hour airs new episodes every week. Subscribe!
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Can alcohol be good for you? CEO of Flying Embers Hard Kombucha Bill Moses explains on The Plantbased Business Hour. We discuss the trends in the beverage market, tips for start-ups and the market move towards food and beverage as medicine.
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Jennifer Stojkovic of the Vegan Women Summit and female founder Pitch event, Pathfinder, joins me to on the Plantbased Business Hour to discuss 1) the results of a study on bias, discrimination and harassment of female founders during investment rounds, 2) VegTech predictions for the near-in future and 3) Mexico's plant-based revival with female founder Tanya Oseguera of Benji MX (Shark Tank).
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I break down the week's top 3 headlines, each in a minute or less.
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Innova Market Insights nails plant-based foods and cultivated meat as it's #2 for 2021 predictions.
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The Members of the European Parliament go anti-business and anti-consumer by taking on plant-based dairy.
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Perfect Day gets a perfect board member in The Walt Disney Company's Robert Iger.
Plus my business bottom line...
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How did Oatly create the oat milk craze? Bjorn Oste is on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss 1) why consumer research is a waste of time, 2) why inflexibility crushes creativity and 3) and his passion for making healthier drinks. We talk food as medicine and his newest company Good Idea Drinks. Tune in.
Each week I break down the week's top headlines on the Plantbased Business Minute. This week is
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Cultured Meat Heads To Space with Aleph Farms
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The EU invests in Cultured Meat.
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The Vegconomy gets a big push.
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Co-Founder and CEO of Beyond Brands, Eric Schnell talks about 1) growing brands like Good Catch, Cool Beans and Steaz for success, 2) if plant-based will go the way of the natural category, 3) the power of a plant-based paycheck and 4) the importance of a strong company culture for the younger consumer.
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I break down the top headlines in analysis and review. News on 1) Upfield and Roquette plants in Canada, 2) The Bel Group makes plant-based versions of its major brands, 3) Omnipork heads to McDonalds and 4) Jay and Bob of Mooby's head to Chicago. It's the Plantbased Business Minute!
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Ryan Bethencourt, investor and Founder of Wild Earth Pets, and I discuss the major trends destabilizing the meat and dairy industries, his newest venture, Sustainable Food Ventures and his investment strategies. Listen in to this thought-leader and major investor actively moving the world away from animal products. It's the Plantbased Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano.
The Plantbased Business Hour airs new episodes weekly.
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Famed Philosopher and author of Animal Liberation and The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically, Peter Singer joins me for a rare interview. Recorded back before Plantbased Business Hour was created, this Awesome Vegans interview has been repurposed for PBH.
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Monica Talbert of the Plant Based Seafood Co. and I discuss 1) the realities of the Seafood Industry, including the illegal industry 2) trends for seafood and plant-based seafood consumption, 3) the making of plant-based seafood products and 4) her tips for other entrepreneurs. The future of seafood is on the Plantbased Business Hour.
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Every week I breakdown three top business headlines for review with my business bottom line. Listen in and subscribe.
This week: 1) Alt protein investment goes to $15B with a twist, 2) Nestle CEO makes the connection and 3) is 'vegan fantasyland' a reality? It's all on the Plantbased Business Minute!
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David Benzaquen, founder of Ocean Hugger Foods and fellow vegan investor joins me to discuss 1) the growth of plant-based seafood, 2) pain points for plant-based businesses and 3) who should be educating the consumer on plant-based products. It's all on the Plantbased Business Hour.
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I break down the three top headlines for the week ending 9/27/20 on the Plantbased Business Minute.
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What's Next for Plantbased Foods and Materials? Macy Marriott of the GlassWall Syndicate and Stephanie Downs of Material Innovation Initiative and I discuss 1)the innovations in the pipeline to take animals out of the food and materials supply chain, 2) predictions for the short term and 3) challenges facing the industries. Subscribe!
For more information, http://ElysabethAlfano.com and http://GlassWallsyndicate.org and http://MaterialInnovation.org
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I break down the Top 3 headlines for review and analysis for the week ending 9/18/20. 1) "Veganism is having a blast," accordig to Chef's Pencil, 2) Fruit leathers are driving awareness of the vegan leather industry and 3) Beyond Meat is back in the news with meatballs and a stock price surge.
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Better Your Bottomline with Compassionate Decision Making? Harvard Business Professor Max Bazerman weighs in.
We discuss his newest book, Better, Not Perfect, sustainable maximum goodness, how better decision making can run parallel to ethical decision making and how being more efficient (less wasteful) with time and energy can lead to long-term goodness. He also gives tips for focusing less on our tribe and more on doing the least harm possible for creating overall value.
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It’s the Plantbased Business Minute: my recap and analysis of the week’s headlines. Comment and share. For a deeper dive into plantbased business, subscribe to the Plantbased Business Hour or reach out to me personally. http://ElysabethAlfano.com