Alex discusses breeding fungi with Paul Dyer - producing new varieties of blue cheese. Blue cheese might seem like the hot new thing but people have been eating it for thousands of years. It's not all about cheese - as if that's not enough...

Did you know fungi might provide us with the next viagra?

And... should we take warning from fungi apocalypse films like, ‘The Last of Us’?

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Laine Clark from the GFI speaks to Alex from the Future of Foods Interviews about trends in investments across the different sectors of alt' protein (precision fermentation, plant based, and cultivated meat). Laine sees a positive future for the sector because it, "has to succeed".

If 2023 was a year of consolidation - what will 2024 bring?

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Alex talks to two branding experts to get the insights on how industry should be selling cultivated meat to the public. Will they need to be tricked into eating it?

This is a must hear for anyone interested in the future of the industry - who will eat it and why they will want to eat it?

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Giant Leaps (GL) is one of the benefactors of the Horizon project which has a massive budget - in the billions - to spend on reducing GHG and reaching net zero. Of course food is a big part of that. Edward Sliwinski from GLs talks to FoF about how they're spending the money to enable the transition.

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Alex speaks to Ira Van Eelen from Respect Farms about her vision of cultvated meat farms. The farms of the future on which animals are not slaughtered for their meat but instead their cells are grown in bioreactors for meat. Is this a possibility? It would be nice.

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Alex talks to Alan Ivan Ramos, CEO and founder of Libre Foods, based in Barcelona. They utilise biomass fermentation to make meat altrnatives from Fungi and currently have a bacon product on the market. They will be launching a Chicken product next year.

Alex talks to Shannon Falconer, CEO of BioCraft, the cultivated petfood company which is producing the meat pets really want to eat - MOUSE.

Shannon tells Alex on Future of Foods that the animal agriculture industry makes its profits from the waste stream used for petfood. Bringing cultivated pet foods to market could make a real dent in factory farming profits.

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Christie Lagally From Rebellyous Foods talks to Alex, host of FoF. Their new Mock2 production system, which will be fully operational within months, promises to produce plant based chicken at a third of the current price. Christie tells Alex that it tastes better than the real thing.

Rebellyous are contantly evolving and developing new products and are keen to collaborate with plant based and cultivated meat companies.

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Bryant Research is the leader in Alt Protein research and market analysis. With a broad scope - including monitoring public perception to alt meat products, exploring how to reduce meat consumption, and attitudes to industrial farming etc etc. Alex speaks to it's founder Chris Bryant.

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Laura Gertenbach talks to FoF interviews about how they are helping the big meat companies make the transition to 'Clean Meat' i.e. cultivated meat. Their products are 'Innocent' because they do not use animal derived products.