Awesome Vegans with Elysabeth Alfano: Recent Episodes
Elysabeth Alfano
Welcome everyone to my podcast Awesome Vegans with Elysabeth Alfano. This podcast will feature in-depth interviews with plant-based celebs, politicians, athletes, entrepreneurs, influencers, environmentalists, doctors, chefs, animal activists and so much more! I am dedicated to exploring how certain individuals are making the world a better place for themselves, those around them, our environment and our animals through their food choices, practices and businesses. I really do believe if we change what we eat, we change the world!
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 Awesome Vegans.
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Elysabeth wraps up 2024 and discusses the impending shift in food systems transformation beginning in 2025.
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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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Jason W. Ingle, Founder and Managing Partner of Third Nature Investments, joins CEO of VegTech Invest, 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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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 Plant-based 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 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 Plantbased 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.
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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 Awesome Vegans 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 Awesome Vegans, 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 Awesome Vegans, 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 Awesome Vegans, 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.
Email Info@VegTechInvest.com to register now (it’s free!) and see you there.
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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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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!
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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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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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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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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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? 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 Raphael Podselver of ProVeg International
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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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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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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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-up booths: 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 Wildtype 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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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.
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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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.
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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.
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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.
nvestor 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!
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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 secular trends emerging from the current industrial revolution. Subscribe now to the Plantbased Business Hour.
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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Each week I break down the top headlines in a minute or less on the Plantbased Business Minute.
- Vegconomist-the vegan business magazine-adds a French site to its empire of English, German, Chinese and Spanish sites.
- How Future Meat Technologies proves that cellular agriculture is the next logical innovative step in meat production.
- McPlant is out. The race is on.
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The All-Star Roster of Fermented 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 for cheese and milk!
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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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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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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 Aimutis, 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.
- Target joins the party.
- 88% of Gen Z is open to trying cultivated meat.
- 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.
- Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine sues the U.S.D.A.
- Eleven Madison Park becomes more than a 10 for plant-based eaters thanks to Chef Daniel Humm.
- Hawaii is the first U.S. state to declare a climate state of emergency.
- 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!
- Eat Just, Inc. cellular chicken goes for home delivery with Food Panda.
- Purdue Chicken promotes the industry feeding chicken blood to chickens.
- @Atlas Monroe @Deborah Torres is set to be the world's largest producer of Vegan Fried Chicken.
- 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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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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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 reach them.
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Vegan Athlete and Brazilian Jujutsu competitor Will Brooks joins Elysabeth to discuss the philosophy of going vegan, the power of healing by going vegan and the power of health by going vegan. Plus, Elysabeth breaks down the news and Will shares his tips for getting protein, making the transition and eating like an athlete. It’s this week’s Plantbased Life & Style!
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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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Author and Dietitian Julieanna Hever shares the top five foods everyone should eat, her tips for starting a plant-based diet and the importance of micro-nutrients found in same.
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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.
- Barvecue breaks ground on the world's largest plant-based smokehouse.
- 2020 investment in plantbased innovation is 2x the amount from 2010-2020.
- 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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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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Love Cuban food, but don't want gobs of meat? Raydel Hernandez joins me on The Awesome Vegans Influencer Series! Hear his incredible cholesterol drop story and weight loss journey as he switched all his favorite Cuban recipes to vegan Cuban recipes and lived (healthier!) to write and tell! Listen in and subscribe!
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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.
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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.
- 60 Minutes, Bill Gates, Anderson Cooper and Thomas Jonas of Nature's Fynd.
- Moonshot Collaborative, David Benzaquen and Che Green share critical learnings.
- Hershey's Kisses, Nestlé, Herseys, BMW Group, Adidas all get a vegan make-over which a certain MSNBC reporter has trouble understanding.
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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?
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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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Trying Plant-based? Fell off the wagon after Veganuary? Christian Madsen (an actor like his Dad and Aunt) has got your ticket! Tune in for tips for keeping it real and staying plant-based after Veganuary has gone! It's the Awesome Vegans Influencer Series!
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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.
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Each week I break down the top headlines. Let's get into it.
- Beyond Meat + Pepsico = BM stock soars
- Dandies Marshmallows heads to the U.K. (Children cheer!)
- Eat Just gets a new outcome under pressure and the egg industry gets an egg in the face.
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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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On this episode, hear BBQ Master Brian Rodger's extreme weight loss story with a plant-based. In addition, Dietitians Dahlia and James Marin of Married to Health, join us to discuss a healthy gut biome.
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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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For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com.
How Can We Support the VegEconomy? vKind! Star Simmons and Michon Javelosa Join Elysabeth Alfano on Awesome Vegans. Get with the program and learn about vKind and supporting other vegans through the VegEconomy!
For more information, visit https://vKind and https://ElysabethAlfano.com .
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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Fab friend Stefanie Ignoffo From Plantspiration Brings the Hope For EXTREME WEIGHT. She and her family lost 250 pounds. They can do it and so can you! Here's how! Reach out to Stefanie at http://Plantspiration.org or me at
http://ElysabethAlfano.com/Recipes for help transitioning to a Plantbased diet so you can take back YOUR health!
It's the Plantbased Business Minute. Each Week I break down the top three headlines each in a minute or less.
- Potential Oatly IPO in 2021
- Cultivated Meat Company Aleph Farms signs a Memorandum of Understanding with Mitsubishi Food Industry Group.
- Impossible Foods lowers prices, Pret a Manger brings in plant-based meatballs and more!
New episodes every week! Subscribe!
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I breakdown my Top Ten (um, 13!) predictions for 2021. Happy New Year! 2020 is over!
New episodes every week. Subscribe!
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Can You Be Religious or Spiritual and Eat Animals? Pastor Rob Munro Explains on the Awesome Vegans Influencer Series with me. TUNE IN if you have ever had doubts about holding ethical standards in a place of worship, but then walking out and eating tortured and slaughtered animals.
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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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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It's a Holiday Party! We recap of 2020 and make our predictions for 2021 over some tasty It's Jerky Y'All and Bacony Bits and libations! Chris Green of Vegan Knight Motorcycle Club, Stephanie Bosco, the Superfood Goddess and Sandi Swiss, Founder of Celebrate Vegan Chicago join me for this holiday party on the Awesome Vegans Influencer Series!
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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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How Are You Going To Do Vegan Thanksgiving? Monica Klausner of Founder of Veestro.com talks about her food delivery service that dishes up the most delicious meals, right to your door, including 5 different turkey options. I know they are delicious because I have had them! Remember: put in the code ALFANO for 20% off Your Veestro.com order for a humane, cruelty-free, healthy and super delish Thanksgiving!
The Awesome Vegans Influencer Series (AKA the Plantbased Life & Style syndicated radio show) airs 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.
The Plantbased Business Hour airs new episodes every week! Subscribe!
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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.
The Plantbased Business Hour airs new episodes every week. Subscribe!
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Covid resurge got you going crazy? Election uncertainty stressing you out? Dr. Scott Stoll, the founder of The Plantrician Project, is on the Awesome Vegans Influencer Series to discuss how to stay healthy in times of stress and the best way to mitigate any long-term effects from Covid. This is critical info you won't want to miss!
The Awesome Vegans Influencer Series (now a syndicated radio show) airs every Tuesday/Thursday at 1p PT. 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.
The Plantbased Business Hour airs Tuesday/Thursdays at 1p PT right here. Subscribe! For Plantbased Business Consulting including media strategy, branding, communications and market overviews, reach out here: http://ElysabethAlfano.com
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).
The Plantbased Business Hour airs new episodes every week. Subscribe!
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Plantbased Power Wrestler Austin Aries is on Awesome Vegans to talk protein, wrestling, reversing chronic disease and his book Food Fight. Tune in to hear not only diet tips, but words of inspiration to get through tough times.
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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.
REAL TOUGH GUYS! Chris Green and Burak Sarac, founding member of the Vegan Knights Motorcycle Club join Elysabeth Alfano on Awesome Vegans. Join the conversation - you are in for a ride!!
Awesome Vegans airs new episodes every week. Subscribe!
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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.
The Plantbased Business Hour airs new episodes every week. Subscribe!
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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.
For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com.
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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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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We're rockin'! Tanya O'Callaghan and Derrick Green - rockers, hosts of Highway to Health and hardcore vegans join me on Awesome Vegans.
The Awesome Vegans Influencer Series (now a syndicated radio show, Plantbased Life & Style) has new episodes every week! Subscribe now.
http://HighwaytoHealthshow.com
For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out to me on Linkedin. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com.
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
The Plantbased Business Hour airs every Tuesday at 1p PT on my Elysabeth Alfano Linkedin Page. Never miss it and join the conversation!
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A Game Changer! Featured in the famed Film, The Game Changers, Dr. James Loomis, Director of the Barnard Medical Center is on Awesome Vegans to discuss how YOU can EAT LIKE AN ATHLETE! Tune in!
http://pcrm.org/barnard-medical-center.
The Awesome Vegans Influencer Series (now a syndicated radio show) airs every Thursday at 1p PT. Never miss it and join the conversation! Subscribe now!
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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.
The Plantbased Business Hour airs every Tuesday at 1p PT on my Linkedin Page. Never miss it and join the conversation! Subscribe now!
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The World's First Vegan Museum is now open. Tune in to the Awesome Vegans Influencer Series (repurposed as the Plantbased Life & Style Radio Show) as museum Founder, Kay Stepkin, shares how YOU can be a part of this historic moment in time for vegans and vegetarians, and learn some unique history along the way.
The Plantbased Business Hour airs live every Tuesday at 1p PT. The Awesome Vegans Influencer Series (now a syndicated radio show) airs live every Thursday at 1p PT on the Elysabeth Alfano Youtube Channel.
Never miss it and join the conversation! You can subscribe to both Awesome Vegans Plantbased Business Hour wherever you get your podcasts and RIGHT HERE on Youtube!
The Vegan Museum: http://Vegmuse.org
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Are phytonutrients the answer to our health crisis? Sofia Elizondo, co-founder & COO of Brightseed talks on how AI technology is breaking through "Dark Matter" and revolutionizing our health. 1) What the heck is Dark Matter? 2) Why do we need AI to find it? 3) Why has it taken so long? and 4) Will big pharma be a competitor or a collaborator? FIND OUT on the Plantbased Business Hour.
Tune in! The Plantbased Business Hour airs every Tuesday at 1p PT on the Elysabeth Alfano Linkedin Page . The Awesome Vegans Influencer Series (now a syndicated radio show) airs every Thursday at 1p PT on the Jane UnChained FB News Network. Never miss it and join the conversation! You can subscribe to both #AwesomeVegans #PlantbasedBusinessHour wherever you get your podcasts and on http://YouTube.com/FearNoArtChicago
For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out to me at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com.
What do Bridgid Coulter and Don Cheadle eat at home? Mostly plant-based interior designer Bridgid Coulter talks about her plant-based life, eco-friendly design work and her favorite meals at home with partner Don Cheadle. Tune in to Awesome Vegans with Elysabeth Alfano.
Plus, The Awesome Vegans Podcast is picked up as the Plant-based Life & Style radio show at stations throughout the U.S. and Canada. Exciting news!
For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com and http://BridgidCoulter.com
To join Elysabeth Jumpstart Your Plantbased Life Class on October 24, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com/Recipes
Podcast: Going back to the vault to my days of hosting on WGN Radio. Here is my interview with the founders of Chicago Vegan Foods and Dandies Marshmallows: Dan Ziegler and Ryan Howard repurposed for the Plantbased Business Hour. Enjoy the ride.
For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com and http://ChicagoVeganFoods.com
In a world of social change, how can YOU make a difference for what you believe in? Activist John Oberg is on Awesome Vegans with me, sharing his top tips for being an effective activist...making a difference is so much easier than you think! Tune in!
For more information, find John on all socials at @JohnOberg and visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com
How to go from ZERO to IPO in 3 years? The Very Good Butchers: Mitchell Scott and James Davison join me to discuss 1) their skyrocketing IPO (the second IPO in plant-based history behind Beyond Meat, and not counting Tofutti), 2) the fairydust that helped them along the way, 3) tips for entrepreneurs and 4) what they wish they knew before they started. Podcast coming.
Use BUSINESSHOUR for a 20% discount when shopping at VeryGoodButchers.com. For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com
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.
For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com/PBH and http://CalifiaFarms.com
How heart healthy are we? Not very! Past President of the American College of Cardiology and Current Chief, Division of Cardiology at Rush University Medical Center, Dr. Kim Williams is with me on Awesome Vegans.
We discuss the connection between obesity and Coronavirus, a Chicago Southside study showing the effects of a plant-based diet on an African American community, are plant-based burgers healthy, is being flexitarian enough, his top heart health tips and why it is our patriotic duty to go vegan. LISTEN IN!
For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com .
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.
For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com and http://GatherVentureFoods.com
Is algae the alt-protein we have been waiting for? Find out! Leonard Lerer of Chicago's Back of the Yards Algae Sciences (BYAS) is on The Plantbased Business Hour with me to discuss 1) the power of microbes, 2) a hybrid of plant-based ingredients into meat products and 3) his words for developing plant-based innovators.
For more information, visit http://algaesciences.com and http://elysabethalfano.com
GET OFF THE ROLLERCOASTER! NEVER BINGE EAT AGAIN! Learn the tips that will change your life on this episode of the Awesome Vegans Influencer Series. Today's guest, plant-based Dr. Glenn Livingston, gives us all the life hacks to succeed and NEVER BINGE EAT AGAIN! Hallelujah!
For more information, visit http://elysabethalfano.com and http://NeverBingeAgain.com
Are more vegan restaurants opening during Covid rather than closing?!? Ken Spector, Principal at long-time trusted Happy Cow, dishes with me on the Plantbased Business Hour on global restaurant trends and the explosion of vegan options. Tune in to keep your finger on the pulse of the quickly expanding plant-based restaurant scene - even during COVID! The stats are astounding. Plus, I do a taste test of the NEW Beyond Fried Chicken from Beyond Meat and KFC!
For more information: http://HappyCow.net and http://ElysabethAlfano.com/PBH.
Get your snack on! Serial entrepreneur, veteran financier and professional snacker, Bill Glaser, CEO and Founder of Outstanding Foods, joins me on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss 1) the recent raise, 2) the snack market and 3) phase 2 of the plant-based movement and 4) pivotal entry points to reaching the target consumer.
Meanwhile, I have PigOut Pigless Pork Rinds at the ready! Big things are in store for Outstanding Foods...listen in! For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com and http://OutstandingFoods.com .
Here are the Top 10 Tips for Managing and Reversing Diabetes without Drugs from the authors of the New York Times Best Selling book, Mastering Diabetes, Robby Barbaro and Cyrus Khombatta. Plus, I have added a few from me.
For more information, visit http://masteringdiabetes.com and http://ElysabethAlfano.com .
Who is the Creator of Veganuary, Million Dollar Vegan and now Veg Capital? The man. The myth. The legend! Matthew Glover is on the Plantbased Business Hour with me to talk about how the world is shifting (thanks to him!) and his newest venture: Veg Capital. Points of note are 1) tips for entrepreneurs seeking funding, 2) should vegan companies work with and/or sell to meat and dairy companies and 3) the impact one person can make.
For more information, http://ElysabethAlfano.com and http://VegCapital.co.uk
What a thrill to have Robby Barbaro and Cyrus Khambatta on the Awesome Vegans Influencer Series. Listen in and/or watch to get LIFESAVING TIPS on mastering Type 1, Type 1.5 or Type 2 diabetes from Robby and Cyrus, the New York Times best selling authors of the book, Mastering Diabetes. Their program has changed the way people manage and reverse the disease. If you or someone you know has diabetes, DONT. MISS. THIS! Of course, please share this blogpost as this information is both life-saving and life-affirming.
http://ElysabethAlfano.com and http://MasteringDiabetes.com
Get your healthy groove on! Dr. Nadja Pinnavaia of Plantable joins me on the Plantbased Business Hour to talk about YOUR health, the health of the nation and the health of the meal-food delivery service industry. Unique in the space, Plantable offers both nutritional coaching and emotional support along with 12 healthy meals a week. Tune in and learn how you can get healthy without making your wallet sick. There's still time to boost your immunity for a healthy (Covid be damned!) summer.
Visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com and http://Plantable.com
Will vegan seafood survive?! Co-Founder of Good Catch, Chad Sarno, is on the Plantbased Business Hour with me. With people eating less beef, pork and chicken, they are switching to fish. However, our oceans are already depleted. With seafood consumption on the rise, that means an increase in commercial, factory fish farming. Time to disrupt! Good Catch to the rescue! Chad and I discuss 1) finding the right texture, 2) the newest Good Catch products and food lab and 3) the importance in finding the right partners on both sides of the food aisle.
For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com/PBH and http://GoodCatchFoods.com
What the FLICK? International Vegan Film Festival Founder, Shawn Stratton is on AWESOME VEGANS.
Are Vegan Films going mainstream? Will Netflix be acquiring more vegan films? FIND OUT on #AwesomeVegans #WEDNESDAY!
For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com and http://theivff.com . Submit YOUR film to the IVFF 2020-2021 by July 14th at http://theivff.com
I want to thank two great companies that I believe in for their support: Rich and Decadent ForA: Butter (get yours at http://ForaFoods.com) and Plant Power Fast Food which offers delicious vegan meals on the run with drive-by options available during Covid! Find a PPFF near you: http://PlantPowerFastFood.com !
With Covid-19, we are all stir-crazy at home and eating up a storm. Here are my Top 10 Tips for healthy snacking, or at the very least avoiding bad snacking!
For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com
Has #COVID-19 positioned plant-based foods to gain lasting traction over the meat and dairy industries? Michele Simon, Executive Director of the Plant Based Foods Association, discusses the biggest challenges for plant-based businesses. Points of note are: 1) the need for plant-based businesses to compete on a level playing field in the marketplace with meat-based analogs, 2) the ability of these businesses to beat analog companies on taste, nutrition and community stewardship and 3) the groundwork being laid for lasting change.
SUBSCRIBE and TUNE IN to the #PLANTBASEDBUSINESSHOUR every Tuesday and Thursday at 1p PT #LIVE on Linkedin.
For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com/PBH and http://Plantbasedfoods.org .
I want to thank two great companies that I believe in for their support: Rich and Decadent ForA: Butter (get yours at ForaFoods.com) and Plant Power Fast Food which offers delicious vegan meals on the run with drive-by options available during Covid! Find a PPFF near you: PlantPowerFastFood.com!
Worried you might not be able to stay vegan during the July 4th holiday? No worries! I've got you covered with my Top 10 Tips for Grilling Vegan this July 4th! Oh, it's so much more than Beyond and Impossible! You'll see ! Listen in!
For for information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com/Recipes
Do you need to have an MBA from Harvard to create of successful brand? Sadrah Schadel, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of No Evil Foods joins me to discuss the incredible trajectory of No Evil Foods from her kitchen to a national brand. Points of note are 1) the trickiness of scaling up, 2) the incredible delicacy of building a team quickly while building a brand culture, 3) the power of being a mission-driven company, 4) the potential of future crowdfunding for the brand and 5) the genesis of the No Evil Foods iconic branding.
For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com and http://NoEvilFoods.com
Here are my TOP TEN TIPS for Staying Vegan When Eating Out. Tune in to the Awesome Vegans podcast and subscribe to get my weekly Top Ten Tips on living a healthy, plant-based diet and lifestyle to feel your absolute best!
For more information, to get my FREE 5-Day Meal Plan or to take my Jumpstart Your Plant-base life class, visit http://Elysabethalfano.com/recipes .
AY Caramba! Sexy Latin Lover, Game Show Host and Mega Podcaster Marco Antonio Regil is with me on Awesome Vegans! We talk about his podcast AND his vegan journey. He is now on a path to help the Latin-American community get healthy in body and mind. I told you: sexy! Get your sexy on! It's Awesome Vegans Wednesday!
Awesome Vegans airs live every Wednesday at 1p PT on my Youtube Channel
For more information, visit http://marcoantonioregil.com and http://ElysabethAlfano.com
I want to thank two great companies that I believe in for their support: Rich and Decadent ForA: Butter (get yours at ForaFoods.com) and Plant Power Fast Food which offers delicious vegan meals on the run with drive-by options available during Covid! Find a PPFF near you: PlantPowerFastFood.com!
It's a Chinese (Plant-based) Revolution: Albert Tseng and Tao Zhang join me on the #PlantbasedBusinessHour to discuss creating the Next Good Food Generation, growing a crop of innovation entrepreneurs and a pre-destined (do the numbers!) plant-based China! Points of note are 1) are female executives entering the plant-based space? 2) why Dao focuses on China rather than Asia as a whole and 3) are investors waiting in the wings to support plant-based innovation.
For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com and DaoFoods.com.
I want to thank two great companies that I believe in for their support: Rich and Decadent ForA: Butter (get yours at ForaFoods.com) and Plant Power Fast Food which offers delicious vegan meals on the run with drive-by options available during Covid! Find a PPFF near you: PlantPowerFastFood.com!
Alicia Robb of Next Wave Impact and I get into it on the Plantbased Business Hour. Should plant-based businesses sell to big meat and dairy? It's a bitter pill - should we take it? We also talk about the dearth female and minority investors and how she is building a platform at Next Wave Impact to grow a new and diverse crop of investors and entrepreneurs!
Tune in and comment! For more information, http://ElysabethAlfano.com and http://NextWaveImpact.com
Animal Activist, Director and Actress: FAB Fia Perera is on #AwesomeVegans with Elysabeth Alfano,. She discusses finding her passion to bring her volunteerism and sense of social justice to her work as a director and producer, including her film Mermaid. For more information, visit http://elysabethalfano.com
Here are my Top Ten Tips for Trimming Your Waistline! Want more tips? Join me at my on-line class on June 20th: Jumpstart Your Plant-based Life for nutrition tips, cooking tips, menu planing tips, reversing choronic disease with nutrition and more! Join me! http://ElysabethAlfano.com
The woman, the myth, the legend! Victoria Moran in on #AwesomeVegans with Elysabeth Alfano to dish on veganism in the time of BLM, Coronavirus and #BoycottMeat. Listed among VegNews magazine’s “Top 10 Living Vegetarian Authors”, Victoria Moran has written thirteen books, including the iconic Main Street Vegan. Featured twice on Oprah, Moran hosts the award-winning Main Street Vegan podcast. TUNE IN. Awesome Vegans Influencer Series airs #Live every Wednesday at 1p PT.
For more information, visit http://MainstreetVegan.net and http://ElysabethAlfano.com .
Gwenna Hunter, Founder of Vegans of LA FB Page, and documentary filmmaker, Jasmine Leyva, creator of the Invisible Vegan break open Black Lives Matter for whites and blacks alike. From their take on recent events, to where we are going in the future, to weeding out the toxic - we get into it all. More information, http://elysabethalfano.com
Got questions about ethical investing? Prolific investor Chris Kerr hops on to talk about what he looks for in a company before he invests. Valuations, exit strategies and product extensions: we get into it all. Learn all about impact investing to make a difference. For more information, https://www.unovis.vc and http://ElysabethAlfano.com .
Here are my TOP TEN Reasons to Re-Think Meat (and Stop Eating It.) It's time.
More info: http://ElysabethAlfano.com
World renowned plant-based Chef Matthew Kenney of Double Zero, Althea, and Plant + Food + Wine talks about the Food Future Institute and how YOU can be a part of it! Plus MK gives his tips for budding restaurateurs. Tune in! https://www.matthewkenneycuisine.com and http://ElysabethAlfano.com for more information.
I want to also thank a great company that I believe in for their support: Rich and Decadent ForA: Butter. Get yours at ForaFoods.com.
What if DefaultVeg was the norm? Professor, Founder of Farm Forward and DefaultVeg and Co-Author of the Eating Animals screenplay and collaborator with Jonathan Safran Foer, Dr. Aaron Gross joins me on the Plantbased Business Hour. We discuss the lack of social distancing in factory farms, how they are breeding grounds for Pandemics -Swine Flu and Asian Bird Flu- and the oppression of animals, workers and farmers by multinational "farming" corporations. We also discuss the disempowerment of consumers by the system that supports these wealthy corporations with subsidies and legal protections at the expense of all of our health and well-being. Are you angry yet? Hold on...there's a solution: DEFAULT VEG! For more info, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com and Defaultveg.com. SUPPORT with Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AwesomeVegans .
I will be doing a Top Tips short pod every week with healthy and fun tips for your and your family...startig with my Top Ten Vegan Snacks!
For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com
AWESOME VEGANS! The Parent Trap's Elaine Hendrix has not only starred on the silver screen for almost 30 years, but she has been rescuing animals and bring awareness to their plight for half as long. Beautiful in and out, tune in to hear this the glam girl's tips on health, beauty and helping animals.
I open the show with some news. If you would like to sign the petition to halt further Animal Ag bailouts, click here: https://mymfa.mercyforanimals.org/page/18494/petition/1?_ga=2.96197594.795185395.1589932778-882976727.1482472743
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I want to thank two great companies that I believe in for their support: Rich and Decadent ForA: Butter (get yours at ForaFoods.com) and Plant Power Fast Food which offers delicious vegan meals on the run with drive-by options available during Covid! Find a PPFF near you: PlantPowerFastFood.com!
What's The Skinny on Vegan London? The Vurger Co. Founders Rachel Hugh and Neil Potts weigh in on London-town, reinventing themselves during social distancing, their commitment to sustainability and zero plastics and their predictions for the future. Grab your burger and settle in - The Plantbased Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano heads to London!
The Plantbased Business Hour airs every Tuesday and Thursday, and Awesome Vegans Influencer Series airs every Wednesday at 1p PT!
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I want to thank two great companies that I believe in for their support: Rich and Decadent ForA: Butter (get yours at ForaFoods.com) and Plant Power Fast Food which offers delicious vegan meals on the run with drive-by options available during Covid! Find a PPFF near you: PlantPowerFastFood.com!
PBH: What will the future be like for Beyond Meat? Chuck Muth, Chief Growth Officer, talks about expanding to China, protecting IP, building relationships in Europe, price parity with meat, and new products. If you are watching the Beyond Meat stock, you will want to listen in. For more information, visit http://BeyondMeat.com and http://ElysabethAlfano.com/PBH.
Chef AJ tells her incredible weight loss story and how this catapulted her life to books, media and the ultimate in happiness: feeling great! Tune in for some great tips in the kitchen and to get some encouragement if you are on a weight loss journey. For more information, visit http://ChefAjWebsite.com and http://ElysabethAlfano.com .
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams gives a powerful interview on the public health benefits of a plant-based diet, the public health issues with NYC’s wet markets and what is takes to be a leader in a time of crisis. Raw, humble and direct, Adams talks about curing his type 2 diabetes and partial blindness with a plant-based diet and the economic impact of implementing plant-based lifestyle nutrition in hospitals and in schools. He is known for putting vegan meal options in schools, hospitals and prisons and implementing #MeatlessMondays in 1700 public NYC schools. This is a do-not-miss interview. For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com and
https://www.brooklyn-usa.org/plant-based-nutrition/
FROM AUSTRALIA! Mad Scientists or Creative Geniuses? Jim Fuller and Chris McLoghlin of Fable Food Co are making braised beef from mushrooms and its delish! The two discuss the business hurdles of getting global distribution, solid investors and reliable manufacturing partners.. and the intelligence of mushrooms! Of course, we also eat Braised Beef over Noodles and Braised Pork with BBQ Sauce!
For more information, visit Http://FableFood.co and http://ElysabethAlfano.com
I want to thank two great companies that I believe in for their support: Rich and Decadent ForA: Butter (get yours at ForaButter.com) and Plant Power Fast Food, which offers delicious vegan meals on the run with drive-by options available during Covid! Find a PPFF near you: PlantPowerFastFood.com!
Get your Plant-Strong on! Rip Esselstyn of Plant-Strong by Engine 2 is on The Awesome Vegans Influencer Series, which is also a pre-tape for my radio show. We dish on what to eat for a healthy gut, how to take a firefighting engine team vegan, the beauty of not overthinking things and Rip's testicles (not kidding!) Check out PlantStrong.com for the May 15-17 Plant-Strong Primer summit and ElysabethAlfano.com for recipes.
I want to thank two great companies that I believe in for their support: Rich and Decadent ForA: Butter (get yours at ForaButter.com) and Plant Power Fast Food, which offers delicious vegan meals on the run with drive-by options available during Covid! Find a PPFF near you: PlantPowerFastFood.com!
Seth Goldman, Former Executive Chairman of Beyond Meat, Founder of Honest Tea and Founder of Eat The Change, and Jonah Goldman, Co-Founder of PLNT Burger, talk about conscious capitalism, #planetdelicious and plant-based meats having price parity with meat! EXCITING! Plus, tips for entrepreneurs entering the marketplace and for millennials looking to change their future and save the planet. Listen in! For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com, PlntBurger.com and EatTheChange.com.
Tune in and Get Healthy! Plantbased BBQ expert Brian Rodgers talks about his incredible transformation of losing 140 pounds on a plantbased diet. Plus, we dive into his line of Plantbased BBQ sauces and rubs and recipes for BBQ! For my segment, The Doctor Is Dialed In , James and Dahlia Marin of Married to Health join me to discuss gut health on the Awesome Vegans podcast and radio show.
On the Plantbased Business Hour, Michiel Van Deursen joins me to discuss the three "F"s of investing. Tune in to hear his incredible life-affirming come back story that turned his world around and put him on the path to vegan investing. An early investor in The Vegetarian Butcher, as well as many established brands, Michiel shares the one thing he's waiting for that isn't yet to market. For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com and https://veganinvestor.vc .
I want to thank two great companies that I believe in for their support: Rich and Decadent ForA: Butter (get yours at ForaButter.com) and Plant Power Fast Food, which offers delicious vegan meals on the run with drive-by options available during Covid! Find a PPFF near you: PlantPowerFastFood.com!
Team USA Volleyball Champ Dustin Watten shares his failures and successes, how he remains zen on the court and in life, and the plant-based diet that gives him the competitive edge. What does this champ eat for breakfast and before practice? Watch to find out! Plus Dustin talks about how changing his diet allowed him to let go of anger and change who he is as a man. He sends a message for other men to follow.
Veteran and Registered Nurse Bill Muir joins in to share his current work in hospitals during Covid-19.
For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com
Legal Eagle Carissa Kranz Talks U.S. Wet Markets, her legal petition in support of banning NY wet markets and her company BeVeg, which certifies companies as vegan in order to standardize the market. Carissa has been vegan since birth and, before becoming a lawyer and CEO of her own company, was a performing ballerina. For more information, visit BeVeg.com and ElysabethAlfano.com
One of the most influential and dedicated figures in the Plantbased Business arena, Sebastiano Cossia Castiglioni, joins me on the Plantbased Buniness Hour to discuss inefficient meat and dairy operations, solutions for change and feeding a growing population.
We also discuss working alongside meat and dairy to replace their product lines with plantbased alternatives and supporting vegan businesses and sanctuaries during Covid-19. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com .
This week explorer, endurance athlete and ten-time world-record-holder Colin O’Brady, the first to walk unaided and unassisted across the land mass of Antarctica, joins Elysabeth to talk about his expertise with isolation (coronavirus pep talk!) and the diet that fueled his accomplishment. Plus Dr. Angie Sedeghi dials us in to the benefits of a plant-based diet for avoiding cancer. http://ElysabethAlfano.com
Can one app change the world? CEO Vikas Garg of ABillionVeg joins me on the Plantbased Business Hour to discuss how, through reviews, the direct feedback from customers to restaurants about their vegan options allows restaurants to do more and better vegan dishes, thus growing the market. ABillionVeg app also donates $1 per review to animal sanctuaries and allows consumers the chance for their voice to be heard while doing what they love most: taking pictures of food. For more information, visit: ABillionVeg.com and ElysabethAlfano.com .
Founder of Tofurky, Seth Tibbott, dishes with me on the The Plantbased Business Hour on Meat and Dairy bailouts, Tofurky's booming plantbased business, their new factory strategy during #Covid-19, the delay of the Moocho cheese launch and his book, In Search of the Wild Tofurky. Plus, Felipe Alvalos of Big Love Catering joins us to talk feeding first responders vegan meals from the kindness of his heart. For more info, visit ElysabethAlfano.com.
Rebecca Mink, Founder/Designer of Mink Shoes shares how she crafts her vegan luxury shoes in Italy, the passion behind the craft and how the Florence leather market is opening to vegan leather!
Rebecca makes vegan shoes for the stars and, in a step ahead of the markets, she is takng her luxury shoes direct to consumers with her custom boutique.
Get your shoe fetish on! It's Mink Shoes on the PlantBased Business Hour. For more info, visit ElysabethAlfano.com.
Happy Earth Day! Rock Star Richard Marx and Model/Business Woman Daisy Fuentes, a couple totally aligned and uncensored, give tips for couples going vegan together and pitfalls and tricks they learned along the way.
Completely unfiltered, Daisy and Richard also talk about the traumatic indivdual circumstances that lead them both to stop eating fish.
The two also share what they have learned about the food and fashion industries from their vegan journeys and Daisy's pivot to compassionate clothing.
Listen in! It's vegan royalty on The Awesome Vegans Influencer Series! Visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com for more information.
Slaughterhouse shutdowns, Burger King law suits, Physician Committee for Responsible Medicine takes on U.S. Wet Markets, The Mile High Vegan Network and the So Flo Vegan Summit. With coverage from JaneUnChained News Network and Vegconomist, I break down the vegan news w/ Courtney Garza VegWorld Magazine on THE PLANTBASED BUSINESS HOUR. Visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com and http://VegWorldMag.com for more information.
Awesome Vegans Influencer Series: Incredible candor from world renowned violinist Rachel Barton Pine about how she has been vegetarian since birth and largely lactose intolerant. When she researched veganism while pregnant, she cut out dairy in-full and raised her daughter vegan for both of their health and stamina. The two play an incredible duet, around 40:00. NOT TO BE MISSED! Check out http://RachelBartonPine.com and http://SylviaPine.com and http://ElysabethAlfano.com
THE PLANTBASED BUSINESS HOUR: Who is eating the most plant-based jerky around the country? It isn't cowboys! CEO and Founder of It's Jerky Y'all, Brett Christoffel, shares the pitfalls for entrepreneurs and power of being mission driven. Get your Texan on, It's Jerky Y'All !! For more information, visit ItsJerkyYall.com and ElysabethAlfano.com
AWESOME VEGANS is back! Dr. Joel Kahn, America's Healthy Dr and founder of the Kahn Longevity Center, gives his Top 5 Tips for Boosting Your Immune System. We discuss the progressing Coronavirus across the U.S. and what the medical community has learned, if anything, from Covid-19. Most importantly, will there be another epidemic? For more information, visit DrJoelKahn.com and ElysabethAlfano.com
The Plantbased Business Hour: 2020 is the year of Vegan Chicken! Mechanical Engineer and CEO or Rebellyous Foods, Christie Lagally, explains how she takes on the largest sector of the meat industry (Chicken) by creating a delicious chicken nugget that can scale up in volume and scale down in price to truly replace chicken production. She talks food and engineering the machinery for large scale production. Fascinating! For more information, visit Rebellyousfoods.com and ElysabethAlfano.com
THE PLANTBASED BUSINESS HOUR: A NASA research gig turns into a discovery of a lifetime....will microbes feed the world? CEO of Nature's Fynd, Thomas Jonas explains how all protein comes from plants and microbes and that microbes will become our efficient, nutritious, and prolific food supply of the future. For more information, visit http://Naturesfynd.com and http://ElysabethAlfano.com
Co-CEO and Co-Founder of GoodDot (India), Abhishek Sinha joins me on the PLANTBASED BUSINESS HOUR to discuss veganism in India, the cultural pros and cons to embracing same and GoodDot's exploding business beyond Asia. For more information, visit here.
Is it enough to buy plant-based items when your tax dollars support meat and dairy subsidies? If meat and dairy is propped up by subsidie giving them unfair competitivie advantage, are we really a capitalist economy? Connie Spence of Agriculture Fairness Alliance and the Vegan Justice League Explains. For more information visit Http://ElysabethAlfano.com and click on Awesome Vegans tab.
Jeffrey Harris, Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Plant Power Fast Food joins me on the PLANTBASED BUSINESS HOUR to talk about sales during Coronavirus, the beauty of a dedicated, loyal customer base and what he does in the face of fear. For a dose of inspiration and motivation, listen in! For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com and http://PowerPlantFastFood.com
THE PLANTBASED BUSINESS HOUR: Lisa Feria of Stray Dog Capital joins me on the Plantbased Business Hour to discuss plantbased bacon, vegan foods tasting better than their counterparts and the most important skill for an entrepreneur. Listen in and for more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com and click the Awesome Vegans tab.
THE PLANTBASED BUSINESS HOUR: Miyoko Schinner of Miyoko's Creamery joins me to discuss health and cruelty issues with dairy and the struggling dairy industry. Â In addition, we discuss Miyoko's NEW CHEDDAR, how she got her start in veganism and what prompted her to start a cheese dynasty! To inform, the USDA that you do not want dairy to be recommended as a health food on its nutritions 2020-2025 guidelines, visit http://bit.ly/2Qp1SU6
Visit Miyokos.com and ElysabethAlfano.com for more information.
THE PLANTBASED BUSINESS HOUR (A New Awesome Vegans Interview Series): Ryan Bethencourt, Founder of Wild Earth Pet Foods and Co-Author of The Clean Pet Food Revolution: How Better Pet Food Will Change the World, joins me to discuss how our pet food industry props up factory farming and how much of the pet food consists of dead, diseased, disabled and dying animals contributing to the spread of disease. We also talk about the changing landscape of investing in plant-based start-ups. Finally, Dr. Jeff Schaider, Former Chariman of the Department of Emergency Health at one of the largest emergency rooms in the country, Cook County in Chicago, talks about Coronavirus, testing and managing supplies. For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com
April 1 PLANTBASED BUSINESS HOUR, an Awesome Vegans Series: What's the next Big (Plantbased) Idea? Andrew Ive, General Partner and Founder of Big Idea Ventures shares the secret, but here's a hint: it isn't food. Watch and listen in to find out! For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com
THE PLANTBASED BUSINESS HOUR, March 31: Lou Cooperhouse, CEO and President of BlueNalu, joins me to discuss the impending reality of cellular aquaculture, changing consumer habits and demands, the waste, inefficiency, cruelty and environmental biproduct of fishing and fish farms and the worldwide rising demand for fish. This is the future! Listen in. For more information visit, http://ElysabethAlfano.com and http://BlueNalu.com
Back by popular demand! From Althea Restaurant in Chicago, my favorite nutrition nerd of Nutrition Facts.org, Dr. Greger talks Coronavirus, How Not to Diet and his 21 tweaks for staing strong and healthy. This is a not to be missed episode - CLASSIC Dr. Greger. For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com
How are vegan restaurants surviving during the COVID-19 crisis? Andrew Kalish of Sam & Gertie's and Kalish and Jennie Plasterer of Kitchen 17 are two of very few Chicago vegan restaurants which are still open...in fact they have reinvented themselves, forging ahead with new business models to keep vegan food, their businesses and hope alive. Tune in to listen to these two business leaders who are braving the frontlines of the Coronavirus. For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com
On The Plantbased Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano (A Special Awesome Vegans Series) , Dr. Dean Ornish, Father of Lifestyle Medicine and author of UnDo It explains how hospitals are coping with Coronavirus, how to boost your immune system with a plant-based diet and if we can change the healthcare system to be in the business of promoting health, rather than sickness. Turn to http://Ornish.com and http://ElysabethAlfano.com for more info.
The Plantbased Business Hour, along with my radio The Elysabeth Alfano show - the only radio show in the nation, is now part of the Awesome Vegans Podcast! PBH airs weekdays at 1p PT during Shelter at Home, Live on Facebook.com/JaneVelezMitchell. Tune in!
Grammy Award Winning Baritone Lucas Meachem is back on on surviving as a performer when all performances are cancelled. Plus, he compares Coronavirus to the Spanish Flu on 1918 and talks about the increasing demands of opera: you have to do more than just sing!
For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com
IMPOSSIBLE FOODS is CHANGING THE WORLD! Firecracker and Smart Lady, Rachel Konrad joins me on The Plantbased Business Hour, a special series within Awesome Vegans. From Impossible Pork, to our public health, to the environmental call and the horrible feeling we all share from eating animals...Rachel gets into it all. Stay informed and listen in as this truly insightful interview! For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com
Claire Smith of Beyond Investing and Beyond Animal joins me to discuss the hurdle of not enough bank loans for plantbased businesses, their reliance on private equity and being at the mercy of private equity’s need for liquidity. We also discuss a shifting market place towards plantbased. The Plantbased Business Hour airs weekdays during 'home stay' on Facebook.com/JaneVelezMitchell . It is archived on ElysabethAlfano.com and the Awesome Vegans Podcast.
The Coronavirus came from eating animals. No one is talking about this. So I have started a Special Series Running on Awesome Vegans (in addition to same) during 'Safer at Home' Coronavirus times: The Plantbased Business Hour. This series talks about the solution to pandemic viruses (Corona, SARS, Ebola, Mad Cow, Swine Fever, Asian Bird Flu, etc.), which is plant-based meat alternatives. I will talk with the leaders in the field who are focused on the solution for real change. Otherwise, we will go back to business as usual and find ourselves right back here with another pandemic in short order.
This series is focused on the solution.
Founder of Before the Butcher and Current Presiplant of #UnCut Burgers, Danny O’Malley joined Elysabeth to discuss how being acquired has helped the company weather the Coronavirus, if grocers are considering plant-based meats when meat supplies have run out, and if we have come to a saturation point for plant-based burgers.
For more information, http://ElysabethAlfano.com .
During this strange time of social distancing, I am creating a pop-up show: The Plantbased Business Hour. The podcast will come daily on weekdays until our lives get back to normal. I am creating this show, not just because there is a need for content right now, but because I feel that there is a need for a certain kind of content that is missing.
Plantbased Business represents not only big money, as you will see I have Managing Partners at Venture Capital Groups and Executives from major corporation on my show. Plant-based Business also represents the big solution to the meat and dairy industries that are crippling our health and our planet. I think we can all agree, as we stay home and cannot even travel to see loved ones in this strange time, that we need large-scale solutions to these industries as we pay a heavy, heavy cost on our health and the health of the planet during the Coronavirus, just as we have during other meat-borne pandemics.
First up is Curt Albright of Clear Current Captial. We discuss the challenges of scaling up small plantbased business and his investment strategy in plantbased start-ups. For more information, http://ElysabethAlfano.com and http://Clearcurrentcapital.com
Author Colleen Patrick Goudreau joins Elysabeth to discuss helping people transition to a plant-based life.
In the Doctor Is Dialed In segment, Dr. Scott Stoll discusses the Plantrician Project in which he teaches Doctors the importance of plant-based nutrition and protecting ourselves during the Coronavirus. For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com
From 1980-1995 Seth Tibbott made tempeh and lived in a tree house. (Yes.) Without much financial success, he decided to do something about the 46 million Turkeys that are killed every year in the name of 'gratitude', 'thanks' and 'tradition.' Tofurky was born! In truth, Seth is the founder of more than Tofurky as he is one of the key foundational bricks upon which the current plant-based movement is built. Seth dishes with correspondent Elysabeth Alfano about his humble beginnings, the future of food, the changing landscape of agriculture and the secret weapon of vegans! Didn't realize you were a superhero? Seth sets you straight! Listen in! Seth's book, In Search for the Wild Tofurky, How a Business Misfit Pioneered Plant-based Foods Before They Were Cool is out on Amazon early April. For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com and http://Tofurky.com
Can one man change the direction of China? Maybe. David Yeung started Green Monday in 2012, and subsequently Green Common in 2015 and OmniPork in 2019 to address the issues of a rising population, climate change, food scarcity, and animal cruelty in China. He is a world change-maker for the sustainable common good and a gentle force to be reckoned with, hopefully guiding China towards a healthier future.
David sits down with Elysabeth Alfano and discusses the effects of Westernization in Asia, the health problems that ensue from same, the coronavirus and his Hong-Kong based plant-based businesses and their impact. Listen in at https://elysabethalfano.com and https://greenmonday.org/en/.
Lt Commander Charles Hallum and Sgt Vegan Bill Muir join me to talk about Vegans in the Military. Are there any and how is it possible? We talk about MREs, respect from colleagues, did they ever doubt themselves, what makes a tough guy and handling stress while in the service. Plus, Dr. Ashok Nagella joins in to discuss the correlation between mental health and diet. Listen in and for more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com
How much do we really know about regenerative farming? CEO of Milkadamia, Jim Roberts, joins me today in studio. According to Jim, Macadamia Nuts, are one of the world’s most perfect foods and – as I can attest – make a delicious nut milk. We talk about how Milkadamia farms Macadamia nuts, why and how their farming is regenerative of soil and of community and is macadamia butter possible? Listen in and share. You’ll find this interview inspiring and Jim embodies all that we hope for from our business leaders: a desire to leave the world better than how we found it and an intent to work with community to find solutions that benefit us all.
For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com and http://Milkadamia.com .
Have you heard the news? There's a new plant-based cooking show on Amazon Prime, called New Day New Chef. While there have been other YouTube-type shows before, this the first large-scale fully vegan cooking series. Co-Creator, Executive Producer and Host Jane Velez Mitchell explains all about the show and how it came to be. Elysabeth is also one of the Executive Producers and one of the Featured Chefs. John Joseph McGowan, frontman for the punk rock Cro-Mags JM, joins in from NYC to talk about being a punk rocker by night and triathelete by day...vegan, of course. For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com
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 on her eponymous radio show, the only plant-based radio show in the nation, to dish on how Americans are forgoing 10-14 years of healthy longevity and how to fix this. Plus, Chef Leslie Durso joins the conversation and brings them loads of delicious dishes to enjoy that are all plant-based and designed for #AgingBackwards…except that vegan Chocolate Cake with Chocolate and Cream Cheese Frosting!
See http://ElysabethAlfano.com and http://Bluezones.com and https://www.fourseasons.com/santabarbara/ for more info.
Hormones are tricky and drive us all crazy. Dr. Neal Barnard, in conversation on The Elysabeth Alfano Show, the only plant-based radio show in the nation, sets the record straight! For women of all ages, Dr. Barnard addresses aligning our hormones with a plant-based diet to positively impact not only our health, but our fertility. Plus, he even addresses hormonal balance for menopause. Finally, Elysabeth and Neal put to rest any question of meat being good for you.
For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com and Dr. Neal Barnard’s latest book: Your Body in Balance: The New Science of Food, Hormones, Health .
From the weekly show, The Elysabeth Alfano Show on WCGO Radio and the Smart Talk Radio Network, Founder and Presiplant of Before the Butcher and UnCut Burgers, Danny O'Malley joins me to dish on Burgers, Business, and Being Better. AND - just in time for Valentine's Day, Founder of Find VegLove, Karine Charbonneau, talks vegan matchmaking!
The Elysabeth Alfano show is the ONLY plant-based radio show in the nation AND you can get it on your local radio station. Just tell your station to get The Elysabeth Alfano show on the Smart Talk Radio Network (free) - so you can get plant-based news, food, and interviews in YOUR hometown! For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com and https://www.smarttalkradionetwork.com/the-elysabeth-alfano-show
From Sundance, nestled on a couch during a snowstorm in Park City, Elysabeth sits down with the cast of the Game Changers movie: James "Lightning" Wilks, Former NFL player, Lou Smith, Strongman Patrik Baboumian and International Anti-Poaching Foundation Founder, Damien Mander. Plus, Dr. Terry Mason, also part of the film, joins Elysabeth on her new radio show on WCGO and the Smart Talk Radio Network. The Elysabeth Alfano Show is the only commercially syndicated plant-based radio show in the nation. For more Information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com and http://GameChangersmovie.com
Can dogs be vegan? Why, Yes They Can! Elysabeth Alfano, host of the Awesome Vegans Podcast and Video Series sits down with scientist, entrepreneur, investor and bio-hacker (ooh, sexy!) and CEO of Wild Earth Dog Food, Ryan Bethencourt. Ryan shares startling facts about the connection between our pets and the horrible abuses of farmed animals. Packed with interesting information about the pet industry and the direction of the plant-based tech industry as a whole, watch to get the full scoop from silicon valley innovator, Ryan Bethancourt. It is no wonder that he was such a hit on Shark Tank and that Mark Cuban invested BIG!!
Shark got your tongue? Not for this hot momma! Jenny Goldfarb, AKA Mrs. Goldfarb, wowed Marc Cuban on “Shark Tank” with her plant-based corned beef. Now Elysabeth joins Jenny live at her house to dish on her wild ride, the booming business of plant-based deli meats, and how this mother and home-cook came to realize that she wanted to do more than cook for her family of four. After Elysabeth breaks down the week’s news, these two get into it, ending the show with recipe, food and health tips worth their weight in (Marc Cuban) gold.
Jenny Goldfarb is quickly becoming a central player in the plant-based-food explosion. Where Beyond Meat and Impossible have largely monopolized the burger landscape, Jenny is the primary player in the plant-based deli sector. Born out of compassion for animals and concern for the environment, Jenny took on a vegan lifestyle several years ago, inspiring her food blog, Count Your Colors, where she cooked up different plant-based recipes every week. In 2019, she launched UNREAL DELI, and her debut product, Mrs. Goldfarb’s Unreal Corned Beef, has exploded in the major delis and restaurants in L.A. (Canter’s, Factor’s, Art’s, move studio lots, and now Whole Foods). She famously won the hearts of America on “Shark Tank” in November, scoring a deal with newly vegetarian Mark Cuban. Keep a look out for Unreal Corned Beef, coming to grocery stores and national chains across the country in 2020, or order a box online today at www.unrealdeli.com.
The Elysabeth Alfano Show airs every Sunday 4p ET live on WCGO-Chicago (1590AM and 95.9FM), WCGORadio.com, The Smart Talk Radio Network and Alexa. To hear more of The Elysabeth Alfano Show, click here. And please help us make the first and only syndicated plant-based radio show in the nation a huge success! Tell YOUR local station to pick up The Elysabeth Alfano, available across the nation through the Smart Talk Radio Network or by contacting Elysabeth at Elysabeth@ElysabethAlfano.com.
Dr. Scott Stoll, founder of the Plant-based Nutrition Conference, part of the Plantrician Project, joins me to explain that doctors often don't get the nutritional information needed in medical school. Enter The Plantrician Project!
It isn’t just doctors who need good medical info! In this interview, you will receive lots of good medical tips, insights and answers to some burning medical question. Is juicing really good for you without the fiber? Are carbs bad for you? And what about fasting? We get into it all…just in time to help you with your on-going new years resolutions!
For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com and https://www.plantricianproject.org.
The podcast to kick off your New Year’s Resolutions! Vegan Cardiologist, Past President and current Fellow and Trustee of the American College of Cardiology and Head of the Cardiology Department at Rush Medical Center, Dr. Kim Williams joins me for an episode of Awesome Vegans in Chicago.
Dr. and I dish on the scientific facts from proven studies about the benefits of a plant-based diet, including lower mortality rates. Dr. Kim discusses the four properties in animal-based products that cause heart disease, his 7 indicators for heart health, and his favorite party tricks. (Spoiler alert: it’s an app to test your heart health! Don't you want that?!).
Finally, Dr. Kim shares with Elysabeth why he feels it is “our patriotic duty" to be vegan. For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com
Fearless Vegan Evan, President of Animal Hero Kids, challenges President Trump to go vegan in the month of January. If he does, Evan and the organization that backs him and several other kids, Million Dollar Vegan, will donate $1million to veterans. I got the scoop live from New York!
Evan says that going vegan will turn America into a solutionary country; a country that addesses climate change, food shortages and its own raging health issues. Indeed, being a sick country makes us a less productive country and it is bankrupting our medical system. Evan discusses the power of going vegan for the planet, the climate crisis, our draining resources, our debilitating health issues and, of course, for the animals.
Share this post to help spread the word to encourage President Trump to make the deal and take $1 Million for Veterans. He’ll get a boost for his own health and he’ll Make America Healthy Again. Now that’s a great deal!
For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com and http://MillionDollarVegan.com
Ingrid Newkirk, founder of PETA, is a force of nature!
"Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way," is the long-time declaration of PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. With 485 employees and over 6.5 million supporters, PETA is the largest and most far-reaching of animal rights organizations. PETA has been instrumental in exposing the cruelty and horror in factory farms, animal experimentation, the fur and fashion industry, circuses, the travel industry, cock fighting, dog fighting, bull fighting, Ag-Gag laws and so much more.
PETA also has a formidable vegan outreach program with veg starter kits and has expanded animal welfare concerns beyond the United States to India and Asia. Not to mention, PETA has been creative in putting out tongue-in-cheek, as well as serious, advertising campaigns in front of the public eye. Celebrities from Alec Baldwin to Joaquin Phoenix to super model Joanna Krupa, just to name a few, have lent their image and words to support PETA’s campaigns.
Now, sitting in my kitchen, founder of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, discusses with candor and youthful energy the many projects that PETA is working on to benefit animals (and the planet and people). Ultimately, PETA’s intent is to make the world a kinder place by encouraging human compassion to sentient animals that can feel pain and share with us a range of emotions.
I support this, of course, and have always been a fan of PETA even if I don’t agree with absolutely everything they have ever done. I support PETA because far and away, they move the needle for animals more than any other organization. Ingrid's book Animalkind: Remarkable Discoveress About Animals and Revolutionary New Ways to Show them Compassion is out now on pre-order on Amazon.
That said, PETA is no stranger to controversy. PETA did not support Prop 12 in California and has defended its euthanasia program to put down dogs that can’t be adopted out.
Listen in to this informal and causal interview to hear Ingrid Newkirk and decide for yourself: Is PETA extreme? For more information, visit http://Peta.org and http://ElysabethAlfano.com
Today’s podcast is a cross between Awesome Vegans and Marketplace. No one has their finger on the pulse of the plant-based food business world like guest, T.K. Pillan! The co-founder of Veggie Grill, T.K. joins me to dish on the numbers and the growth behind the plant-based food businesses and jobs that are gaining traction in the marketplace, including his own. In fact, Veggie Grill just launched restaurant #34 in Chicago this week and is the largest vegan/vegetarian restaurant chain in the U.S.
In addition to Veggie Grill, T.K. is one of the partners in PowerPlant Ventures which invests in plant-based businesses, which are enjoying an explosion in growth and start-ups. He is busy to say the least, but this understated guy is as smart as they come. For more information, visit http://powerplantvc.com and http://elysabethalfano.com.
What’s the BEST plant-based ingredient to cook with? It is the one that has paved the way for the plant-based revolution that we have today. Dan Curtin, CEO of Field Roast and Lightlife, joins me on the pod to discuss my all-time favorite product: Tempeh. In addition, as Lifelights celebrates 40 years, we dish on the history and the future of the plant-based foodie movement!
The most unprocessed you can get in the soy family, I use this organic product as a base for all my “Meat” dishes: Pasta Bolognese, Stuffed Peppers, Lasagna and more. All of these recipes, which are available at http://ElysabethAlfano.com, are PERFECT dishes for the holidays. Lightlife tempeh, when seasoned and sautéed, makes a perfect meat base – if you are craving that kind of thing or if you want recipes that you grew up on, but without the meat. Plus, dishes like my plant-based Lasagna and Stuffed Peppers and are perfect for cooking for a group because they all freeze well.
And if you don’t feel like cooking, Field Roast’s Roast is also pretty delicious and, relatively speaking, a healthy alternative. Dig into this interview for some juicy inspiration!
It’s a story of the American dream that you maybe didn’t know. In this episode, I interview John Paul DeJoria, co-founder of John Paul Mitchell Systems Hair Care Products. Literally from rags to riches, John Paul went from foster care as a child and a door-to-door salesman to one of the wealthiest men in America with one of the biggest hearts.
You will hear first-hand John Paul’s dedication to giving back and making a difference and how he changed the hair-care industry. Not by making incredible products, although he did that and I know because I use them, but because he refused to do animal testing. Standing up to an industry that was bent on animal experimentation despite not being necessary, John Paul paved the way for what we have now: California, Nevada and Illinois have banned animal testing for cosmetics. Please listen in and share this podcast. For anyone who may feel jaded that the world is intractable, you will want to hear this interview and be inspired that people still care, people still make a difference and, whether you have a gazillions dollars or not, you can, too.
Entrepreneurs be forewarned! John Paul drops a few bombs of powerful advice! For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com
It’s a Brave New World. Truly. I believe we are living in the time of incredible transition. Just as the invention of the car changed the world to what it is today, the innovation of tasty plant-based meat and dairy alternatives will be upending animal agriculture, impacting our climate crisis, changing our health care system and affecting our culture – all for the better. Today’s podcast is different from others in that I will be giving you an overview from what I learned at the recent Good Food Institute Conference in September. From there I will be segueing into a series of short interviews from the conference. I interview Lisa Feria, CEO of Stray Dog Capital, Lou Cooperhouse and Chris Dammann of BlueNalu (cellular agriculture) and Thomas Jonas of biotech company, Sustainable Bioproducts. Listen in for not just the future of food, but the future of life on the planet.
For more information and to watch the video version of this podcast, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com .
COO of Illinois’ Cook County Department of Public Health, Dr. Terry Mason, sits down with me to explain what our bodies need. Comparing our bodies to machines that need care and upkeep, just like with a car, Dr. Mason explains that you need to give it the right inputs for it to run well.
In 2004, Mason was having a heart attack while on a tread mill and was told to go on medicine. Getting only four hours of nutritional education in medical school, Dr. Mason decided to research what he could do instead of meds and found his way to a whole-food, plant-based diet. He subsequently lost almost 50 pounds.
Dr. Mason’s conviction is palpable. He explains that the average person eats 57 pounds of chicken and 100 pounds of meat a year on the standard American diet (many say over 200 pounds if fish is included). It is no wonder that many Americans are unhealthy and suffering. For some plant-based recipe options, click here.
As if this isn't enough, we also talk about the nitty-gritty: POOP! Think you are healthy? Listen in to find out and to learn about...POOP!
For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com .
Bonus Podcast! From the star-studded red carpet at the premiere of The Game Changers movie, I speak with 9-time NBA champion, Chris Paul who explains how he dropped the bomb on Lebron James that he is vegan! I also speak with former NFL star Tony Gonzalez, Academy Award-winning director, Louie Psihoyos, Suzy Amis Cameron and Dr. Dean Ornish. What a night!!
The Game Changers movie follows over 20 plant-based athletes on their road to breaking personal and public records. Athletes are from all sports domains: tennis, boxing, weight lifting, ultra-marathon, car racing, body building, cycling, martial arts, strongman competitions, football, soccer, track and more.
For more information, visit https://elysabethalfano.com/awesome-vegans-podcast-vlog/game-changers/ and get your tix for the public premiere on September 16 at http://GameChangersMovie.com
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You are in for a treat because tonight it is a vegan’s night at the opera! Grammy-Award winning Baritone and Animal Rights Advocate Lucas Meachem joins me from the road just before he is about to perform on stage. Spanning his career, Lucas has performed at the Hollywood Bowl with Gustavo Dudamel, at the Vienna Opera House, the Paris Opera House, the Los Angeles Opera, the Washington National Opera, Michigan Opera Theater, the Canadian Opera, Napa Opera and the Metropolitan Opera House. It is hard to believe that Lucas actually got his start in a Paris Karaoke bar where he was discovered!
Lucas is currently performing at the San Francisco Opera house playing Mercutio in Romeo and Juliette. He will also be a featured speaker at the upcoming California Vegetarian Food Festival on Sept 21. I will be interviewing Lucas live, so I hope you will join us at this free event. For sure we will be discussing his favorite routine of eating an Impossible Whopper before every performance!
Enjoy this candid interview with Lucas who talks about his love of animals and music and how he believes that veganism is the next social justice movement of our time. He also discusses the benefit of not accepting the status quo and thinking through why we eat what we do and does that really serve us best.
For more information and to watch the full interview, visit ElysabethAlfano.com.
We all know about the Beyond Burger and the Impossible Whopper, but what about eggs made from mung beans? On this episode of the Awesome Vegans Podcast and Video Series, CEO of JUST, Inc., Josh Tetrick joins me to discuss the national launch of JUST Eggs, a liquid food that scrambles up just like eggs but without the destruction to animals, the planet and human health.
Truly a maverick in the plant-based food world, Josh said this in 2018 to Food News Magazine, "The objective for our company isn’t to be a nice little company that gets spun off to Nestle for about $500 million. That’s not what I care about. The objective is to try to move, to try to shift things in a more dramatic way.”
Josh and I discuss his vision for the future of food, famine and the planet, the launch of JUST Eggs, a marketing snafu they had early on and future products including, cultured cell meat. Don’t go anywhere, this podcast is literally about your future.
For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com and https://www.ju.st/en-us .
Imagine building your own army to tackle head on the injustice you see in the world. That’s exactly what former Special Ops Sniper in the Iraqi War, Damien Mander, decided to do. While visiting Africa after leaving Iraq he saw the damage and destruction being done to our planet’s most endangered species. Damien decided he would do something about it. He sold his investment portfolio and founded the International Anti-Poaching Foundation. His army of 37 women in Zimbabwe protects elephants, rhino and other endangered species from poachers. He is now expanding to Kenya, Mozambique and South Africa. On the Awesome Vegans with Elysabeth Alfano Podcast and Video Series, Damien, accompanied by lead ranger Vimbai Kumire, explains how empowering women to protect animals has been one of the most important things he has ever done.
For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com and https://www.iapf.org .
The Gods of technology were not with me on this interview, but Dr. T Colin Campbell was! Despite of bit of tech trouble that slightly affected the sound, Dr. T. Collin Campbell joined me remotely from the Science of Spirituality International Meditation Center in the Chicagoland area. The Center puts on the annual Veggie Fest every August which attacks over 40,000 and is one of the largest in the country. Dr. Campbell visited the center to give a talk to over 1500 people who were interested in learning more about a plant-based diet. His book, The China Study, documents his ground breaking research that is a main factor in today’s growing plant-based health movement. In The China Study, Dr. Campbell studied 65 counties in China comparing the health outcomes of those who ate primarily whole food plant-based diets and those who ate animal-based products. From the research, he determined that food, specifically animal-based foods, and not genetics, is the source of a multitude of diseases. Campbell cites casein, the protein in dairy, as being one of the worst culprits of all. We decided to run this interview even with the sound difficulty because the nuggets that Dr. Campbell lays down are really worth hearing. Thank you for your patience. I hope you find this interview truly worthwhile and informative. To attend this year’s Veggie Fest in Lisle, IL on August 10 and 11, visit Veggie Fest Chicago.com. And be sure to come and say hello to me. I will be doing cooking demonstrations on both days at 2p. I look forward to seeing you there! For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com
Want a bit of fresh air? Want to hear someone who has all the beauty, celebrity fanfare and Instagram followers to take themselves super seriously, but instead is down to earth, kind and super smart? Then you are going to love, animal lover Daniella Monet. On today’s podcast you will hear how this child actress turned social media star saved her pennies and worked hard every step of the way to turn her success into an entrepreneurial streak…and make a strong social impact for people and for animals along the way. Daniella Monet shares how she found her sense of purpose and we can all do the same. #Inspiration doesn't even begin to cut it.
For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com and a http://KinderBeautyBox.com .
Long before it was trendy, there was a lone woman on Oprah touting the benefits of veganism and getting Oprah to try it. I remember that episode of Oprah like it was yesterday. That episode was one of five or six cues that registered in my brain and whispered, Elysabeth you should be vegan.
That singular voice that day on Oprah was New York Times Best Selling author, health and wellness expert, Kathy Freston. She has been talking about the benefits of a plant-based diet for people, our planet and our animals for almost a decade. Kathy has written Clean Protein: The Revolution that Will Reshape Your Body, Boost Your Energy-and Save Our Planet, The Lean: A Revolutionary (and Simple!) 30-Day Plan for Healthy, Lasting Weight Loss, Veganist: Lose Weight, Get Healthy, Change the World, The Quantum Wellness Cleanse: The 21 Day Essential Guide to Healing Your Body, Mind, and Spirit, and Quantum Wellness: A Practical and Spiritual Guide to Health and Happiness…and these titles are just to name a few.
Now, sitting in my kitchen and chatting as if we had known each other for years, Kathy clues us in to the best ways to talk to those who aren’t yet vegan and how to make it as easy on them as possible. Vegan-ish? Sure, why not! Along the way, we discuss the changing cultural zeitgeist around plant-based food and our planet that is in dire need.
To this end, Kathy has just delivered a petition of over 200,000 signatures to the McDonald’s Hamburger Univeristy Headquarters in Chicago demanding a vegan burger. Hundreds of thousands of people want MckyDs to have a MckyV. If you agree, head to social media and tag me,Elysabeth Alfano, Kathy Freston and McDonald's and let them know you want a MckyV.
Plus, Kathy lets us in on a little secret called the Veto Vote. What is it and do you have it?
Upbeat and natural, informative and friendly, this is one episode of Awesome Vegans that will make you feel like you’ve had Kathy Freston as a pal forever. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com
Ron Placone just kind of stumbled in to veganism. The stand-up comic, writer for The Jimmy Dore Show, ocassional guest on The Young Turks network and creator and host of Get Your News on with Ron dishes with me about how he tripped into veganism, never expecting to like, and hasn't looked back.
Going vegan isn't the only thing we get into. We also talk about our fav Italian dishes, how he curates his news on Get Your News on with Ron, being vegan on the road, his Net Neutrality passion and his cat, Lucy.
Expect to be entertained as Ron and I hang out at his place in Pasadena on this episode of Awesome Vegans. For more information, visit http://RonPlacone.com and http://ElysabethAlfano.com. To join Ron on June 11 to take back the internet and net neutrality, go to http://EpicLiveStream.com .
Ahhhh, the great Ed Begley, Jr! Ed joins me on Awesome Vegans to give us a private tour of his Platinum LEED Certified house! From the thickness of the walls to the refurbished floors and from the room specific heat thermostats to the solar panel heated pool with a the hidden underground tank to catch rain water, Ed has done everything to make sure his house is as green and eco-friendly as possible.
It's not just on the set of film and TV that Ed stays busy. He explains that he loves to garden and cook...so after the house tour we share some tomato soup and talk cleaning products, appliances and his secret about working with director Christopher Guest!
Join me for this special episode of Awesome Vegans in which you will not only get to know this kind and creative soul, but you will learn how to keep your gas bill to about $30 month!
For more information go to ElysabethAlfano.com and EdBegley.com
Every year the Animal Legal Defense Fund announces their Top Ten States for animal welfare laws. For the last 11 years, the state of Illinois has been number one. Senator Linda Holmes is one of the main reasons for this. On this episode of the Awesome Vegans Podcast and Video series, Illinois Senator Linda Holmes takes a break from her busy schedule to join me by Skype.
Senator Holmes and I discuss two current animal bills, both of which she proposed. Both bills have passed the Illinois Senate and are waiting for a vote in the Illinois House. Specifically, Bill 61 deals with permits and fees for adopting and fostering animals and Bill 241 would prohibit the importation or sale of cosmetic products or ingredients that use animal testing after Jan 1, 2020.
We also discuss Senator Holmes’s fight to ban wild and exotic animals, such as tigers and bears, from traveling circuses and fairs. In 2017, Senator Holmes was successful in getting Illinois to be the first state to ban elephants from performing.
While Senator Holmes and I don’t see eye to eye on everything, our discussion is a vibrant and passionate and hopeful one and she is an incredible advocate for animals. For more information and to see the video companion to this podcast, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com. To contact your IL representative to voice your support for Bills 61 and 241, visit http://ILGA.Gov.
My guest today is riding high…riding high atop some giant waves that is. Champion Surfer, Tia Blanco is the 2015 and 2016 World surfing champion. She took the First Place Gold at the International Surfing Association Open Women's World Surfing Championship. As one of the top 50 female surfers in the world, she is now training to compete for a spot on the 2020 USA Olympic team. Gotta give to her, Tia Blanco is on fire.
Tia and I dish near her home in Southern California to talk about how this champion gets her protein, uses her nutrition to stay mentally and physically strong and on being a role model for others. Hang loose, y'all. Enjoy this podcast with delightfully badass, vegan power-surfer, Tia Blanco.
For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com .
Well, it’s always a thrill to have the Voice Of American Idol on your podcast. On today's Awesome Vegans pod, famed newscaster, radio host, Emmy Award winning producer and podcaster (The Edge), Mark Thompson joins me from his KFI-iHeart Radio studios. We discuss how the mainstream media approaches animal rights issues, his take, as a former weatherman, on our environmental crisis, Mark's own reasons for going plant-based, and what he wished he knew ten years ago. This self-proclaimed tofu lover holds nothing back.
For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com .
You know the expression everything under the sun? That’s exactly what I talk about with this episodes's guest: basketball legend, wellness master, media personality, chef and philosopher, John Salley. Get comfy and settle in because John and I wax prophetic about our food and protein, John’s life vision, his many, many businesses and projects, and his time with Michael Jordan and Phil Jackson on the Chicago Bulls and then again with Phil Jackson for the LA Lakers. Plus, John gives us his take on religion and his tips for young athletes and... the rest of us. This four-time NBA champion holds nothing back and it’s all the straight dope. Oh, and we talk about that, too!
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If you’re listening to this podcast, you are probably interested in change. But what does it take to create change? Today’s podcast guest has the answers, at least some of them any way. Brad Barbera is the Director of Innovation at the Good Food Institute in Washington, D.C. and he sure does know his stuff. We talk about climate change and animal agriculture, the plant-based meat arena, the coming of clean meat. …and what people need to really change. Enjoy this informative and hopeful-for-the-future interview with fellow Northwestern grad, Brad Barbera.
For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com and http://gfi.org .
Actor/Director Joel Murray and I go back a few years, connected by our love of our hometown Chicago, Second City, Wrigley Field and the Chicago Cubs. In fact, our ties are tight enough that this meat eater was willing to go meatless...as long as I met the demand: make his favorite meat dish taste as if it had meat. With a little help from Beyond Meat, I was up to the challenge!
Join us in my kitchen for this episode of Awesome Vegans in which Joel Murray and I make meatless Pasta Bolognese while talking sports, his brother Bill, his time with Jon Hamm on Mad Men, his years at Second City Chicago, plus his current work with Whose Live Anyway?
Perhaps most importantly, we also talk cooking and drinking tips. How long should one REALLY cook pasta to get it 'al dente'? And what is Fernet Branca? Listen in to hear classic meat eater Joel Murray wander into my meatless kitchen to dish on life, love, comedy, cooking and the Chicago Cubs. For the full effect, watch the video and get the recipe on http://ElysabethAlfano.com .
We look to our leaders to lead. When they don't, which can happen more often than not, it can take a 12-year old girl to be the spark of change. On this episode of Awesome Vegans, I am honored to be the FIRST interview (#JaneUnchained, WGN Radio) with young activist Genesis Butler immediately after she publicly (New York Times, The Guardian) invited Pope Francis to go vegan for lent.
As noted in his encyclical letter, Pope Francis explains that we need to make lifestyle changes to address climate change. Well...then let's do that, starting with the Pope himself. As Genesis points out, going vegan for lent is a chance for His Holiness to take a stand against climate change, world hunger, large-scale animal suffering and a current international human health crisis.
With incredible sophistication from the sunniness of her Long Beach bedroom, I interview this incredible spirit. Listen in to hear first-hand her encouragement to the Pope and all his followers to show compassion to people, animals and the planet when it is called upon most: lent.
And if compassion somehow isn't compelling enough for Pope Francis, maybe the $1Million being offered to the charities of his choice should he accept this invitation is! For more information, visit Million Dollar Vegan and ElysabethAlfano.com .
As much of an animal advocate as I am, when it comes down to the most important thing for animals, it isn’t the rescues. It is to get the laws changed for animal protection. This is why today’s guest, lawyer and Executive Director of the Animal Legal Defense Fund, Stephen Wells, is such an incredible human being and an incredible hero.
Stephen talks about overturned Ag-Gag laws and what it means for farmed animals who are currently locked behind closed factory doors. He speaks of the fact that in many states it is legal to do certain things to farmed animals that would not be legal to do to your pet. In fact, we discuss how, in 42 of the 50 states, factories are exempt from animal cruelty laws.
Stephen is on an incredible journey of helping animals gain justice. In one circumstance a horse named Justice is actually in the process of a lawsuit against the owner. Another instance was in New York a dog named Bella was beaten to death and there is a bill coming soon named after that dog that addresses animal cruelty laws. Things are changing and much of it is due to the Animal Legal Defense Fund and their growing number of lawyers, university chapters, and funding.
To learn more about ALDF, visit https://aldf.org. To help support ALDF, please visit https://give.aldf.org/page/5302/donate/1. For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com
On this episode of Awesome Vegans, I'm over the moon to be in the company of Rachel Barton Pine, a world renown violinist and vegan. With over 30 CDs to her credit, Rachel has played in concert halls all around the world. She is also the founder of the RBP Foundation.
When people think about vegans, perhaps they think about hippies and extremists. Rachel blows that stereotype to smithereens, showing that all sorts of people can be vegan. As she tackles the world music industry and takes on the demanding life of an internationally traveling and performing violinist, her vegan regime enables her to maintain the stamina she needs. All the while, she is also showing her daughter how to live a vegan life.
Join me as Rachel Barton Pine and I talk about the negative impacts of animal agriculture and how going vegan can actually help our planet and our health. Also, listen as Rachel performs three times, playing multiple genres of music and even a duet with her daughter, with passion, ferver and exquisite grace that is quintessential Rachel Barton Pine.
For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com
On this show, I am honored to interview so many wonderful people who are making a difference in this world for people, for the planet and for animals. But even among this group of truly exceptional people, Dr. Neal Barnard is special. Founder of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and the Barnard Medical Center, he is also the author of 20 books, such as The Vegan Starter Kit: Everything You Need to Know about Plantbased Eating.
Dr. Barnard has fostered an instrumental and monumental change in the use of animals in testing and experimentation in both governmental and non-governmental institutions. As if this isn’t enough, he has also worked tirelessly to make sure that nutrition is considered as an important factor in preventive medicine.
Dr. Barnard and I talk about his recent big win for the end of animal testing on cosmetics in the state of CA, and his other initiatives to make the world better for animals and people, along with his view on life and music. No doubt, this man is a walking gem.
Plus, he gives great tips to help you stick to your resolutions and experience a great Veganuary!
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Think you know Billy Corgan? Think again. He and his partner, designer and founder of Maison Atia, Chloe Mendel, talk faux fur, animal activism and the Smashing Pumpkins reunion on Ep 22 of Awesome Vegans with Elysabeth Alfano.
Unfathomably, between the two of them, they juggle living in NYC, Chicago and LA, a haute-couture fashion house, a rock band, two dogs, two cats and two babies! And yet, as you will hear, they are incredibly normal and laid back, with a very funny dynamic between the two of them. In fact, this interview is an EXCLUSIVE. It is their first interview together ever.
Visit Maison Atia's website to view collections and for information on a December 16 Faux Fur event with Santa and your pet at the Virgin Hotels Chicago benefitting PAWS Chicago.
Visit http://SmashingPumpkins.com for European and North American tour dates. For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com
Can eating meat cause cancer? Can eating a whole-food plant-based diet decrease depression? For once and for all, is soy good or bad for you?!? The Dr. is in…or should I say the nutrition nerd is in the house. Yes, Dr. Michael Greger, with encyclopedic knowledge of nutrition, joins me to kick off the new year with some nutrition facts for our New Year's Resolutions. Plus, he reveals his favorite snack and some cooking tips as only Dr. Greger can dish out.
Author of How Not To Die, How Not To Die Cookbook, and director of Public Health and Animal Agriculture at the Humane Society of the United States, Dr. Greger is an internet sensation. This podcast with Dr. Michael Greger is one you won’t want to miss!
If you didn't get enough of Dr. Greger in this podcast, you can always get his book How Not To Die on Amazon.com or on Audible. Audible is offering a free audiobook download with a free 30-day trial to give you the opportunity to check out their service. Try Audible and check out How Not To Die…for free. To download your free audiobook today go to http://audibletrial.com/AwesomeVegans.
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Jane Velez-Mitchell began with a career in journalism. In 2014, Jane focused her energies on covering animal rights issues on her Facebook channel and news-styled website, JaneUnChained.com. As a longtime vegan and voice for animals, Jane is a leader in the animal rights movement. This powerhouse woman even has her own CNN show running for 6 years, Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell.
On social media and Facebook Live, Jane addresses animal violence and the negative impacts of factory farming on human health and the environment. Jane’s voice and coverage have put a spotlight on the horrors of slaughterhouses. Jane's Facebook followers, which reach over a whopping 900k, flock to her channel and website for accurate news.
For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com and https://janeunchained.com and of course, be sure to subscribe to us both on FB!
I like to think of Gene Baur, Co-Founder and President of the Farm Sanctuary in New York State and the Los Angeles area, as the original. Despite not being the first animal activist, who else has funded their sanctuary by selling veggie dogs out of the back of their VW van at a Grateful Dead concert? Classic!
Gene is more than just dedicated and devoted to bettering the lives of animals. He is also a wealth of knowledge about how to fix our ailing animal agriculture-based food supply system that has left the environment depleted and our health in question. Gene has solutions, and a new take on tradition. For example, since we don't need meat to survive, consider adopting a Turkey this Thanksgiving rather than eating one! Visit http://FarmSanctuary.org for info.
Gene also has a great book, Living the Farm Sanctuary Life! You can try the Audible version of this book with a 30-day free trial by visiting http://Audibletrial.com/AwesomeVegans.
As Gene says, he's not anti-business and he's not anti-farmer, he's anti-cruelty. And who can't get behind that?! Listen in and for more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com
On this episode of Awesome Vegans, I head to the home of chef, actor, TV host, motivational speaker and overall magical man, Jason Wrobel. While we talk a lot about food on this episode, we also talk about finding one’s purpose, and how we all make our way to being our best selves and being of service to ourselves, others, our planet and animals. With energy, and mental and emotional nourishment, Jason really gives of himself in this episode sharing tips for joy, wellness, clarity and presence. In the end, it is all about creating joy and reducing suffering. You just might want to listen to this podcast twice.
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Tough guy and former Chicago Bear, David Carter, sits down with Elysabeth Alfano to discuss The Bears, his diet, workouts, food deserts, strength and masculinity. Maybe it’s not what you think! Enjoy this candid interview from this loveable giant during the Switch4Good* No Dairy Athlete Summit. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com.
- Leilani Munter was also interviewed at the summit and their interviews are back to back here with David's being the second interview. Two for 1!
What's the best way to encourage people to gear up and go plantbased? Give them free Impossible Burgers at your Nascar Tent! Vegan Strong racecar driver Leilani Munter dishes with host Elysabeth Alfano about population growth, her work with the Oceanic Preservation Society, her favorite plantbased comfort foods and her upcoming last race of the year. Using her 200 mile-an-hour racecar as a billboard for environmental issues, it is no wonder that Leilani was named by Discovery's Planet Green as the #1 eco athlete in the world. Enjoy this interview from the Switch4Good No Dairy Athlete Summit. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com .
Want to feel better and have the energy and stamina to get stronger? Well then, I’ve got your number! Number 16 that is! Yep, Number 16 is in on the pod! NFL Chicago Bears Punter, Pat O’Donnell, Mr. Number 16, follows mostly a plant-based diet…but I don’t want to steal his thunder. I will let him tell you in his own words all the benefits that he gets in practice, in workouts, in performance and in punting both on an off season.
For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com and GO BEARS!
You think you know what it means to be a biker? You think you know what it means to be vegan? Think again! Host Elysabeth Alfano dishes with six members of the Vegan's Choice Motorcycle Club about why they ride, why they're vegan and just what does it really mean to be manly. Buckle up for the ride and listen in to the Vegan's Choice Motorcycle Club. For more information and to watch the video interviews, visit ElysabethAlfano.com
Every Wednesday I do a cooking demo in my kitchen. I love it when the roles are reversed and I have guest chefs in the house. Vegan Chef and Lifestyle Coach of Compassion Over Killing Jessica Carter stopped by to make a killer umami salad. And as Jess likes to say, "When eating your vegetables, eat the rainbow!"
First Jess cooks and then we dish. Tips on how to go vegan? Why you should bother? We got your number! Listen in here and watch the interview on ElysabethAlfano.com .
And for the most fun, the tables will be reversed on September 15 when Jess has me in her "kitchen" and I cook at DC Veg Fest. I hope you can join us!
This pod is recorded from the Veg News Headquarters in West Hollywood. I sit down with the very smart and very present Jasmin Singer. A veteran journalist and author (her book Always Too Much and Never Enough is out now), Jasmin is the Senior Editor at the leading vegan publication, Veg News. In our discussion, Jasmin highlights the benefits of a compassionate life and how changing how she sees herself and, thus, how she sees the world created a life altering and life affirming shift for her. In the end, can we be happy? We get in to this, too! Listen in! To watch our interview or for more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com .
What an interesting pair! Founder of Upton's Naturals, Daniel Staackmann, and V.P., Nicole Sopko, have each been vegan for over twenty years. In addition, Upton's Naturals doesn't have any outside investors and never has. Further, Upton's Naturals doubled its business 2017 over 2016 and it is looking like it will be the same for 2018.
These two unassuming veterans discuss their work lobbying in DC with the Plant-based Food Association, their new line of Asian meal kits available in Whole Foods nationwide this August and how they came to work with jackfruit. And, of course, we talk seitan and Upton's Breakroom!
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Josh Balk, V.P. of Farming Practices at The Humane Society of the United States, is perhaps the happiest man alive. His outlook for animals is bright! Josh and I discuss how to feel empowered on a daily basis, how people show up for animals and which political party cares more about animals, and why some upcoming major legal hurdles could really change the game for animals and people.
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Activist extraordinaire Jame Aspey lays it all on the line in this episode of Awesome Vegans with Elysabeth Alfano. He outlines the way we get our food today, how little we have advanced in this area and his favorite snacks and go-to meal. Listen in here or watch the video on Youtube https://bit.ly/2rFZ1cO. Subscribe!
Ep. 8 of Awesome Vegans with Elysabeth Alfano features the super-fab volleyball champ of Team USA, Dustin Watten! Part philosopher, part activist, part cool dude and all champion, Dustin dishes on how he got control of his anger, how he shifted his diet to help stay competitive, and what he has learned from all the medals, as well as the failures. This is a great episode, so listen in to Dustin Watten.
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It was difficult to get an interview with Peter Singer! I finally got one for Ep. 7 of Awesome Vegans with Elysabeth Alfano. From his home in Australia, Peter discusses the basis for speciesism as noted in his famed book Animal Liberation, his pet X-lab rats and how to take on big government. Listen in to the legend himself: the man who is responsible for motivating the animal welfare movement!
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Vegan Butter...what exactly is that? On Awesome Vegans, Faba Butter creators Andrew McClure and Aidan Altman join me via Skype to dish on the hows and whys of vegan butter, and if vegan butter just might save the world, and your waistline. Listen in and be sure to subscribe to Awesome Vegans on iTunes and check out the video of this interview and subscribe to my YouTube Channel here.
Who Benefits From You Being Sick? Paul David Kennamer Jr. and Merrilee Jacobs discuss this, what do doctors really know about nutrition - if anything at all!! - and the making of their film, Eating You Alive on this week's Awesome Vegans with Elysabeth Alfano. Plus they give some healthy diet tips of their own! SUBSCRIBE and find the videos on my Elysabeth Alfano YouTube Channel here : http://YouTube.com/FearNoArtChicago .
LA Hottest DJ, Valida, on Music, Spinning, Being Vegan, Bunnies, Earthlings and Spinning for The Humane League's Vegan Prom. Listen in to Awesome Vegans with Elysabeth Alfano. For more information, visit the Elysabeth Alfano YouTube Channel.
Awesome Vegans host Elysabeth Alfano joins incredible, Grammy-nominated artist, MOBY for an intimate conversation in his backyard. The two discuss everything from his newest album, Everything Was Beautiful, and Nothing Hurt, his creative process, his life’s work for animals, being vegan and his predictions for the future.
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The super fast and super cool Olympian, Dotsie Bausch joins me on Vegan Nation. Over some Beyond Meat Chicken Strips salad with hemp seeds and avocado, we dish on her deep fall after modeling to finding cycling and making it to the olympics, all on a plant-based diet. While still training and eating like an athlete every day, she now focuses on advocating for animals and her specific work with Compassion Over Killing to end high-speed slaughtering of pigs. Visit NotSoFastUSDA.com to learn more ( I signed!) Listen in to the awesome Dostie Bausch and don't forget to subscribe!
Plant-based entrepreneur extraordinaire Ethan Brown, CEO and Founder of Beyond Meat, joins me on Vegan Nation! Beyond Meat, which boasts of investors like Bill Gates has a line of plantbased burgers, beef crumbles, chicken strips, beast burgers, and now sausage…all made from plant protein. Brown talks about the future of food, the technology behind plant-based meat and his philosophy concerning both pets and farm animals.
With jaw-dropping growth, last Spring the Beyond Burgers started in 400 grocery stores and are now in more than 7,000!! Since the burger's debut last year, they've sold more than 13 million Beyond Burgers. The Beyond Burger is available in the meat case at Jewel and Mariano's in Chicago, as well as at Whole Foods stores nationwide, where they also just launched Beyond Sausage.
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