Obesity policy expert Ted Kyle shares his thoughts on how the food industry should respond to consumers’ need for more healthful food options, and why he’s not a fan of the food as medicine concept. Process engineer Shalima Sreenath, whose previous work with Beyond Meat focused on scaling up transformative alt-meat technologies, shares the exciting new possibilities of precision fermentation technology in the food and ag space. With anti-obesity drugs on the rise, Barb Stuckey, chief new product strategy officer at Mattson, talks about the abundant innovation opportunities for companies.

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