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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 ...
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Host Elysabeth Alfano dishes and drinks with celebs on The Celebrity Dinner Party. What funny stories and inspirational insights do celebs and influencers have to share from their road to success? Over food and drink the unscripted conversation flow, as Alfano sits down with some of the most prominent chefs, actors, directors, musicians, comedians, politicians and sports figures to find out! Live streaming and filmed in front of an audience and viwers that shares in the food and conversation ...
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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. Subscribe! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reac…
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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. Subscribe! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, vi…
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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. Subscribe! For plant-based media/brandi…
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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. Subscribe! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more in…
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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. Subscribe! For plant-based media/branding consulting and publi…
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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. Subscribe! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com. For more information, visi…
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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 longevi…
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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. S…
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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. Subscribe! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, …
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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. Subscribe! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out a…
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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. Subscribe! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth…
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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…
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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? Subscribe! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For …
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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. Subscribe! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out…
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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. Tune in right here! and always subscribe to never miss a show. For plant-based media/branding consulting a…
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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 sustainabl…
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Chief Commercial Officer of Plantible Foods, J. Morgan Keim Keim, is on The Plantbased Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano today at a special time for a special tour of the company's Lemna Leaf (AKA duckweed) plant. Morgan discusses the sustainability and scalability of Plantible's Rubi Protein from the Lemna Leaf and how it is taking a nature-base…
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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. Subscribe now to never miss a podcast. Connect with Elysabeth on Linked in here: https:/…
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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. Subscribe now to never miss a podcast. Connect with Elysabeth on Linked in here: https:/…
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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! Subscribe! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking…
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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 wh…
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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. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public…
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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. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consulting and …
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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…
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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. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consulting and pub…
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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 accompli…
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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. Subscribe right now to never mis…
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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. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consu…
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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. 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 infor…
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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. Subscribe rig…
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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. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast and write a 5-star review. For p…
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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! Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding con…
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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. Subscribe right now …
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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 Linked…
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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. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out …
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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. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consultin…
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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! Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based me…
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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 P…
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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 …
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Bloomberg Senior Analyst Jen Bartashus Reports on the Plant-based Innovation Industry and makes predictions for the sector for 2023. Subscribe now to never miss a Plantbased Business Hour episode. For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.co…
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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! Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For …
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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. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach…
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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…
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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? Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public s…
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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. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consulting and…
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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. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consult…
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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. 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…
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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! Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethal…
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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. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabe…
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