Eat For The Planet with Nil Zacharias

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Eat For The Planet features conversations with food industry leaders, health and sustainability experts, as well as entrepreneurs and creative minds who are redefining the future of food.

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Eat For The Planet with Nil Zacharias episodes:

05.15.2023
#180 - Zero Egg: Meet The New, Great-Tasting, Cleaner-Label, Plant-Based Egg
This episode features Liron Nimrodi, the Co-Founder and CEO of Zero Egg. Animal friendly, sustainable, and a healthier alternative, Zero Egg is the plant-based egg for everyone. Zero Egg’s products are 100% plant-based, gluten-free, non-GMO, low in calories and fat,...
05.09.2023
#179 - Plantega: Nudge Theory and Plant-Based Food
The episode explores Nudge Theory, a behavioral economics concept used to guide better decisions through minor environmental changes. Plantega, a company making plant-based food accessible via a unique plant-based-deli-in-store model in New York City bodegas, employs Nudge Theory through strategic...
04.18.2023
#178 - Climbing the Plant-Based Slope of Enlightenment
This episode discusses the plant-based food industry's evolution and future prospects, following the Gartner Hype Cycle. Despite a disillusionment phase, consumer demand remains strong, with plant-based food sales growing in 2022. To ensure continued growth, we need to focus on...
03.09.2023
#177 - Elena Devis of Deliveroo on the Unstoppable Rise of Plant-Based in Takeout and Food Delivery
Elena Devis is on a mission to make Deliveroo the go-to delivery platform for plant-based food. As the Head of the Vegan Category, she works cross functionally with the Commercial, Marketing, Product and Sustainability teams to make it easier for...
03.06.2023
#176 - Strong Roots: Tasty, Plant-Based Food Designed for Busy Lives
Samuel Dennigan is Founder and CEO of Strong Roots, a leading plant-based brand committed to planet-friendly food. Launched in 2015, Strong Roots are on a mission to provide tasty and environmentally responsible food for busy lives. Since its beginnings Strong...
12.13.2022
#175 - Wildtype: Seafood Without Fishing or Fish Farming
Wildtype is a cultivated seafood brand on a mission to create the most sustainable seafood on earth, starting with their highly anticipated sushi-grade salmon. Aryé Elfenbein, a cardiologist, and Justin Kolbeck, a former U.S. diplomat, set out to protect our planet’s wilderness,...
11.22.2022
#174 - Alexis Gauthier: A Michelin-Starred French Chef Embraces Vegan Food
Alexis Gauthier is a multi-award-winning French chef and successful London restaurateur. In 2016 he became vegan, and in 2021 he removed all animal products from his restaurant menus entirely. From Avignon, in the south of France, Alexis began his career...
11.17.2022
#173 - Victory Hemp Foods: Developing Super-Nutritious Plant-Based Ingredients
Chad Rosen is the Founder & CEO of Victory Hemp Foods, a business-to-business primary food ingredient processing company that develops innovative technology to manufacture hemp grain into premier proteins and healthy fats for applications in food and beverage, skincare and...
10.18.2022
#172 - Chef Palak Patel: Inspiring Change with Good Food
This episode is co-hosted by Ben Davis, Content Chair and Strategic Advisor of Plant Based World Expo and was produced in collaboration with Plant Based World Expo. Palak Patel is a classically trained chef, Host, Atlanta restaurant owner, and two time...
09.26.2022
#171 - Sonalie Figueiras on Food Culture, Food Tech, and Systems Change
Serial social entrepreneur & trends forecaster Sonalie Figueiras is the founder & editor-in-chief of Green Queen, an award-winning impact media platform advocating for social & environmental change through inspiring & empowering original content and one of the world's leading outlets...
09.02.2022
#170 - Pleese Foods: Authentic NYC-Style Pizza Cheese That’s Plant-Based and Allergen-Free
Kobi Regev is a passionate New Yorker who happens to be vegan. Over the past 5 years he has become an expert in the development and production of plant based cheese. Together with his wife Abev, they switched to a plant-based...
08.23.2022
#169 - Target’s Inclusive and Interconnected Approach to Plant-Based
Le’Spencer Walker is Director of the Merchandising Vendor Development (MVD) team and lends his skills and leads in many areas at Target. Currently leading a team that identifies, develops and on-boards women and minority owned brands aligned to Target strategies....
08.10.2022
#168: Why the Future is Bright for Plant-Based in Foodservice
This episode features Vincent "Buddy" Gillespie, Director of Culinary at JBH Advisory Group. Buddy has thirty years of experience in restaurants and hospitality markets with past projects that include fast casual restaurant development, kitchen design, creation of operational policies and...
07.12.2022
#167: Plant-Based Trends and Insights with Rodd Willis of Dot Foods
This episode features Rodd Willis, Director of Natural & Specialty at Dot Foods. His 25-year career at Dot Foods has included positions in sales, management, supply chain, and business development. He is based out of St. Louis, MO. He...
07.07.2022
#166 - WayFare Foods: A Family's Health Journey Inspires the Creation of a Plant-Based Food Company
This episode features Kelly Coffin, the Founder and CEO of WayFare Foods, a company that takes the finest whole, plant-based ingredients in the world, and turns them into products that are truly Simple, Delicious, and Amazing. You’ll find WayFare’s food foundations...
06.29.2022
#165 - Plant Based World Expo 2022: A Critical Moment for the Plant-Based Foods Industry
This episode features Julie Emmett, Sr. Director, Marketplace Development at Plant Based Foods Association and Sabina Vyas, Sr. Director, Impact Strategies at Plant Based Foods Association and is co-hosted by Ben Davis, VP of Content at Plant Based World Expo. Topics...
06.20.2022
#164 - Matriark Foods: Creating Access From Excess
Anna Hammond is the Founder and CEO of Matriark Foods, a social and environmental impact food business that upcycles farm surplus and fresh-cut remnants into healthy, shelf-stable vegetable products for institutional foodservice. Matriark is building a circular food future, creating products...
06.01.2022
#163 - Karana: Meat From Whole Plants
Karana is a Singapore and US based company that makes meat from whole plants. Show Page: https://eftp.co/karana Newsletter signup: https://eftp.co/newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow Nil Zacharias on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
05.02.2022
#162 - Garrett Broad: A New Vision of Food Tech Justice
Garrett Broad is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University. His research and teaching focus on contemporary social movements, digital media technologies, and the food system. He is the author of More Than Just Food: Food Justice and Community Change,...
04.25.2022
#161 - Nowadays: Clean Label, Delicious, Nutritious Plant-Based Meat is The Future
Max Elder is the co-founder and CEO of Nowadays, a venture-backed foodtech startup making plant-based meats with only a few simple ingredients and unparalleled nutritional profiles. Show Page: https://eftp.co/nowadays Newsletter signup: https://eftp.co/newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow Nil Zacharias on Twitter Learn more about your ad...
04.11.2022
#160 - VegTech: Impact Investing in Alternative Proteins
Elysabeth Alfano is the Co-Founder and CEO of VegTech™ Invest, an investment management company that advises the thematic ETF, VegTech™ Plant-based Innovation & Climate ETF, ticker: EATV. EATV invests in companies that are actively innovating with plants and plant-derived ingredients and...
04.06.2022
#159 - Rachel Dreskin: A Better (and Plant-Based) Food System Is Possible
Rachel Dreskin is the CEO of the Plant Based Foods Association, the first and only trade association representing the nation’s leading plant-based food companies, as well as the Plant Based Foods Institute, PBFA’s sister nonprofit dedicated to driving transformation to...
03.07.2022
#158 - OmniFoods: David Yeung on How to Catalyze a Global Transformation in the Food System
David Yeung is the Co-founder & CEO of Green Monday Group, a multi-faceted social venture with the mission to take on the world’s most pressing crises of climate change, food insecurity and public health. With the global sustainability movement initiated...
01.26.2022
#157 - Dan Altschuler Malek on Unovis Asset Management’s New Alternative Protein Fund
Dan Altschuler Malek is a Managing Partner at Unovis Asset Management, a global investment firm that provides early-stage funding to entrepreneurs developing plant-based and cultured meat alternatives to foods derived from conventional animal agriculture including beef, chicken, pork, dairy, egg,...
01.05.2022
#156 - Journey Foods: Supply Chain and Food Science Meets Data
Riana Lynn is the founder of Journey Foods, a food tech company that supports cutting-edge product management and data services for food businesses. A biologist turned serial entrepreneur, Riana has developed high-growth, nationally recognized technology, and food businesses. Her accomplishments...
12.23.2021
#155 - SriMu: Do Life. NOT Cheese.
Julie Piatt aka “SriMati” is a mystic mother, musician, artist, chef, author and healer who has lived her life immersed in devotion and expansive creativity. She is also the creator of SriMu, a company that makes artisanally crafted NOT cheeses...
12.21.2021
#154 - Tech to Table: Food Tech Innovators Disrupting a $15 Trillion Industry
Richard Munson is the author of Tesla: Inventor of the Modern, and his latest book—Tech to Table: 25 Innovators Reimagining Food—was released in September 2021. Other publications include From Edison to Enron that recounts the history of electricity. Cardinals of...
11.15.2021
#153 - Next Gen Foods: Making Ridiculously Good Chicken From Plants
Andre Menezes is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Next Gen, the parent company of TiNDLE. Next Gen is a Singapore-based food tech company with a mission to create delicious and satisfying food products, all with the power of...
11.03.2021
#152 - New York City’s Mayor Eric Adams on the Power of Plant-Based Food (2018)
Eric Adams is New York City’s Mayor-Elect and the city’s first plant-based mayor to hold office. This episode was recorded and originally published in February 2018. Show Page: https://eftp.co/new-york-city-mayor-eric-adams Newsletter signup: https://eftp.co/newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow Nil Zacharias on Twitter Learn more about your...
10.30.2021
#151 - Predicting the Future of Food: Trend Mapping with Louisa Burwood-Taylor
Louisa Burwood-Taylor is the Chief Editor of AgFunderNews where she covers food and agriculture, with a focus on new technology and startup investment. Her career spans over 10 years and involves a variety of different beats, mostly financial, including time...
10.21.2021
#150 - Because, Animals: The Problem With Pet Food and the Promise of Cultivated Meat
Shannon Falconer is the CEO and Co-Founder of Because, Animals, the only company developing cultivated meat for pets. Show Page: https://eftp.co/because-animals Newsletter signup: https://eftp.co/newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow Nil Zacharias on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
10.12.2021
#149 - Plantega: The Story So Far
Plantega is on mission to make plant-based food more accessible and equitable. We partner with innovative brands and provide a turnkey solution that empowers corner stores in urban hubs like New York City to earn revenue selling delicious and affordable...
10.10.2021
#148 - Imperfect Foods: Reimagining Grocery Delivery and Tackling Food Waste
Madeline Rotman is the Head of Sustainability for Imperfect Foods where she focuses on reducing waste across the company’s operational practices and the food supply system at large. Imperfect Foods is reimagining grocery delivery and on a mission to eliminate food...
09.03.2021
#147 - Breakthroughs, Adaptations, and the Future of Food
On this episode I share a new model I have been exploring that tries to make sense of current debates and approaches to fixing our food system and how to spot opportunities for growth. Episode Transcript: https://eftp.co/news/2021/4/1/breakthroughs-adaptations Newsletter signup: https://eftp.co/newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow...
08.23.2021
#146 - Josh Balk: Can an Animal Protection Lens Create an Equitable and Sustainable Food System?
Josh Balk is the vice president of farm animal protection for the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). In addition, he is a co-founder of Eat Just, the food technology company that produces the Just Egg and sold the...
08.16.2021
#145 - Tyler Mayoras: Crop Diversity and the Future of Plant-Based Food
Tyler Mayoras is the Cofounder and CEO of Cool Beans. Tyler has spent more than 20 years in private equity investing and consulting, focused on sustainable food and agriculture. After adopting a plant-based lifestyle and seeing the incredible health benefits,...
08.09.2021
#144 - Isha Datar: A New Narrative for Cellular Agriculture
Isha Datar is Executive Director of New Harvest, a nonprofit research institute that funds open, public cultured meat research. Topics covered on this podcast What is New Harvest and how Isha got started in the field of cellular agriculture. The basics of growing...
08.01.2021
#143 - Lasse Bruun: The Complex Global Effort to Tackle Big Meat’s Devastating Impact
Lasse Bruun is an advocacy expert in climate, sustainable agriculture and food systems. He leads 50by40, a collective impact organization working towards a fair, healthy and compassionate food system. He has led high-level international dialogues and campaigns in more than...
06.10.2021
#142 - Bruce Friedrich: From Alternative Proteins to Alternative Food Systems
Bruce Friedrich is founder and president of the Good Food Institute, an international nonprofit that is reimagining meat production. With more than 100 team members across GFI's U.S. team and five affiliate offices, GFI is building a world where alternative...
05.26.2021
#141 - Michele Simon: Addressing Structural Problems, not Symptoms of an Unjust and Unsustainable Food System
Michele Simon is a public health attorney, food policy expert, author, and thought leader in the plant-based foods industry. Questions explored on this episode: Can market-based solutions fix the problems with the food system? What can we learn from trends in the natural and organic...
05.12.2021
#140 - Gene Baur: Industrial Food, Alternative Proteins, and the Dream of Something Better
Gene Baur is an author, activist and the President and Co-founder of Farm Sanctuary. Questions explored on this episode. Should we minimize harm within the dominant industrial food model or focus efforts to develop a decentralized, local/regional, community-oriented food system? Can...
05.05.2021
#139 - Jennifer Jacquet: Big Meat and Dairy’s Climate Reckoning
Jennifer Jacquet is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at NYU. She is co-author of a recent study exploring the climate responsibilities of industrial meat and dairy producers. Show page: https://eftp.co/jennifer-jacquet Newsletter signup: https://eftp.co/newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow Nil Zacharias...
04.21.2021
#138 - Errol Schweizer: We Won’t End Factory Farming Until We Dismantle The System (Part 2)
A native of The Bronx, NY, Errol Schweizer is a 25+ year veteran of the food system, with experience in retail, food service, cooperatives, farmers markets, urban agriculture, community organizing and food policy. He has worked nearly every retail and service sector...
04.21.2021
#137 - Errol Schweizer: We Won’t End Factory Farming Until We Dismantle The System (Part 1)
A native of The Bronx, NY, Errol Schweizer is a 25+ year veteran of the food system, with experience in retail, food service, cooperatives, farmers markets, urban agriculture, community organizing and food policy. He has worked nearly every retail and service sector...
04.13.2021
#136 - Pat Mooney on Two Different Futures for Food Systems
Pat Mooney is the co-founder and executive director of the ETC Group, and is an expert on agricultural diversity, biotechnology, and global governance with decades of experience in international civil society. Since 1977, ETC group has focused on the role...
04.02.2021
#135 - A Better Paperclip Maximizer?
Are we trying to transform the food system or build better paperclip maximizers? Show Page: https://eftp.co/better-paperclip-maximizer Newsletter signup: https://eftp.co/newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow Nil Zacharias on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
03.29.2021
#134 - Transforming Food Systems: Ruth Richardson and the Global Alliance for the Future of Food
Ruth Richardson is Executive Director of the Global Alliance for the Future of Food, a strategic alliance of philanthropic foundations working together and with others to transform global food systems now and for future generations. Show Page: https://eftp.co/global-alliance Newsletter signup: https://eftp.co/newsletter Follow us...
03.19.2021
#133 - Confirmation Bias and Negative Externalities
Confirmation bias is the tendency to process information by looking for, or interpreting, information that is consistent with one's existing beliefs. This biased approach to decision making is largely unintentional and often results in ignoring inconsistent information. A negative externality exists...
03.16.2021
#132 - Greg Steltenpohl: Lessons From a Sustainable Food Pioneer
Greg Steltenpohl, Founder of Califia Farms and plant-based pioneer passed away on March 11, 2021 at the age of 67. Greg founded Odwalla., which was acquired by Coca-Cola in 2001. He also co-founded the Interra Project in 2000, Adina for...
03.13.2021
#131 - Helena Norberg-Hodge: A New (and Ancient) Vision for the Future of Food
HELENA NORBERG-HODGE is a pioneer of the new economy movement and recipient of the Alternative Nobel prize, the Arthur Morgan Award and the Goi Peace Prize for contributing to “the revitalization of cultural and biological diversity, and the strengthening of...

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Eat For The Planet with Nil Zacharias episodes:

#180 - Zero Egg: Meet The New, Great-Tasting, Cleaner-Label, Plant-Based Egg

#179 - Plantega: Nudge Theory and Plant-Based Food

#178 - Climbing the Plant-Based Slope of Enlightenment

#177 - Elena Devis of Deliveroo on the Unstoppable Rise of Plant-Based in Takeout and Food Delivery

#176 - Strong Roots: Tasty, Plant-Based Food Designed for Busy Lives

#175 - Wildtype: Seafood Without Fishing or Fish Farming

#174 - Alexis Gauthier: A Michelin-Starred French Chef Embraces Vegan Food

#173 - Victory Hemp Foods: Developing Super-Nutritious Plant-Based Ingredients

#172 - Chef Palak Patel: Inspiring Change with Good Food

#171 - Sonalie Figueiras on Food Culture, Food Tech, and Systems Change

#170 - Pleese Foods: Authentic NYC-Style Pizza Cheese That’s Plant-Based and Allergen-Free

#169 - Target’s Inclusive and Interconnected Approach to Plant-Based

#168: Why the Future is Bright for Plant-Based in Foodservice

#167: Plant-Based Trends and Insights with Rodd Willis of Dot Foods

#166 - WayFare Foods: A Family's Health Journey Inspires the Creation of a Plant-Based Food Company

#165 - Plant Based World Expo 2022: A Critical Moment for the Plant-Based Foods Industry

#164 - Matriark Foods: Creating Access From Excess

#163 - Karana: Meat From Whole Plants

#162 - Garrett Broad: A New Vision of Food Tech Justice

#161 - Nowadays: Clean Label, Delicious, Nutritious Plant-Based Meat is The Future

#160 - VegTech: Impact Investing in Alternative Proteins

#159 - Rachel Dreskin: A Better (and Plant-Based) Food System Is Possible

#158 - OmniFoods: David Yeung on How to Catalyze a Global Transformation in the Food System

#157 - Dan Altschuler Malek on Unovis Asset Management’s New Alternative Protein Fund

#156 - Journey Foods: Supply Chain and Food Science Meets Data

#155 - SriMu: Do Life. NOT Cheese.

#154 - Tech to Table: Food Tech Innovators Disrupting a $15 Trillion Industry

#153 - Next Gen Foods: Making Ridiculously Good Chicken From Plants

#152 - New York City’s Mayor Eric Adams on the Power of Plant-Based Food (2018)

#151 - Predicting the Future of Food: Trend Mapping with Louisa Burwood-Taylor

#150 - Because, Animals: The Problem With Pet Food and the Promise of Cultivated Meat

#149 - Plantega: The Story So Far

#148 - Imperfect Foods: Reimagining Grocery Delivery and Tackling Food Waste

#147 - Breakthroughs, Adaptations, and the Future of Food

#146 - Josh Balk: Can an Animal Protection Lens Create an Equitable and Sustainable Food System?

#145 - Tyler Mayoras: Crop Diversity and the Future of Plant-Based Food

#144 - Isha Datar: A New Narrative for Cellular Agriculture

#143 - Lasse Bruun: The Complex Global Effort to Tackle Big Meat’s Devastating Impact

#142 - Bruce Friedrich: From Alternative Proteins to Alternative Food Systems

#141 - Michele Simon: Addressing Structural Problems, not Symptoms of an Unjust and Unsustainable Food System

#140 - Gene Baur: Industrial Food, Alternative Proteins, and the Dream of Something Better

#139 - Jennifer Jacquet: Big Meat and Dairy’s Climate Reckoning

#138 - Errol Schweizer: We Won’t End Factory Farming Until We Dismantle The System (Part 2)

#137 - Errol Schweizer: We Won’t End Factory Farming Until We Dismantle The System (Part 1)

#136 - Pat Mooney on Two Different Futures for Food Systems

#135 - A Better Paperclip Maximizer?

#134 - Transforming Food Systems: Ruth Richardson and the Global Alliance for the Future of Food

#133 - Confirmation Bias and Negative Externalities

#132 - Greg Steltenpohl: Lessons From a Sustainable Food Pioneer

#131 - Helena Norberg-Hodge: A New (and Ancient) Vision for the Future of Food