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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 ...
 
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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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…
 
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…
 
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! …
 
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 …
 
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…
 
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 …
 
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…
 
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…
 
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…
 
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 …
 
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…
 
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 …
 
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…
 
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…
 
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…
 
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…
 
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…
 
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…
 
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…
 
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…
 
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. Subscribe right now to never miss this p…
 
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! Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based medi…
 
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. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consult…
 
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. Subscribe now to never miss a PBHour pod! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethal…
 
Host Elysabeth Alfano gives her perspective of the State of Plant-based Investing for 2022 and beyond in this podcast episode. 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. Connect with Elysab…
 
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! Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaki…
 
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…
 
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. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consulting and pub…
 
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. Subsc…
 
CEO of Liberation Labs, Mark Warner, discusses the scaling potential of novel, fermented proteins on this episode 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. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com.…
 
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. 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 informati…
 
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…
 
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 …
 
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.…
 
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? Tune in to the Plant-based Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach…
 
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. SUBSCRIBE! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. …
 
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…
 
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 Sanitat…
 
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 Elfenbein of Wildtype! Specifically, we discuss 1. The benefit of cultivated fish over wild-caught or commercially farmed fish, 2. How Wildtye procures its cell lines? 3. What is the medium used to grow the cells? 4.…
 
Having just interviewed Jim Mellon on a Food Innovation & Invement Summit panel, I thought it would be a good idea to re-run this interview. 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…
 
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/brandi…
 
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/brandi…
 
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! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit E…
 
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. For more i…
 
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! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit …
 
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 elysabe…
 
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. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com. Connect wit…
 
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? Subscribe now to never miss an episode. For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabetha…
 
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 w…
 
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