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**Eat For The Planet with Nil Zacharias**

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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#79 - Plant Power Fast Food: Jeffrey Harris on Building a Vegan McDonald's Jan 15, 2019

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Jeffrey Harris is the co-founder of Plant Power Fast Food, an all vegan fast-food chain.

In this conversation we get into:

Why Jeffrey wanted to start a vegan fast food chain and how he found his co-founders to make it a reality.
The changing landscape of fast food and he gives his take on big chains like White Castle and Carls Jr offering plant-based options.
Jeffrey also shares his vision for what fast food chains will look like in the next decade, factoring shifting consumer trends.

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#78 - Meatless Monday: Peggy Neu on Turning a Simple Idea into a Global Movement Dec 12, 2018

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Peggy Neu is the President of the Monday Campaigns, the non-profit that originally founded Meatless Monday.

In this engaging conversation we get into:

Meatless Monday’s strategy for success.
How the organization has been able to get this initiative into schools, businesses, local governments, and countries all across the world.
Insight into the simple power of the campaign and what they have done to make their approach to meat reduction so effective.

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#77 - Pollution Studios: Asher Brown is Helping to Shape the Story of the Future of Food Dec 05, 2018

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Asher Brown is the CEO and Founder of Pollution Studios, a digital content agency, specializing in telling stories across a wide variety of platforms.

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#76 - Balanced: Audrey Lawson-Sanchez is Changing Menus Where it Matters Most Nov 29, 2018

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Audrey Lawson-Sanchez is the CEO of Balanced, a nonprofit aimed at making healthy food more accessible in workplaces, schools, hospitals, universities, and retail spaces across the country.

In this conversation, we get into:

The concept of food environments and how this plays a major role in our ability to choose better options.
How institutions can change their overall approach to meal planning in order to foster better decision making.
Success stories of schools and institutions that have implemented meal changes.
Audrey’s future plans to spread the Balanced message.

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#75 - John Mackey on the Conscious Evolution of the Food System Nov 20, 2018

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John Mackey is the founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market. He helped fuel the rise of organic and natural food in the United States and also popularized the idea of “Conscious Capitalism.” John is a best selling author and recently came out with a companion to the, The Whole Foods Diet, called the Whole Foods Cookbook.

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#74 - Ari Nessel on Why Perspective Matters if You Want to Change the Food System Nov 14, 2018

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Ari Nessel is an investor and philanthropist who is on a mission to transform the way we relate to our food and one another by funding companies and projects that are actively working to disrupt factory farming.

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#73 - BlueNalu: Lou Cooperhouse on Growing Better Seafood to Save the Oceans Nov 07, 2018

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Considering the state of our oceans with overfishing driving fish stocks to the point of collapse, rising sea temperatures, ocean acidification, and plastic pollution infiltrating even the most remote and pristine waters of the world, we desperately need to find a viable alternative to wild caught and farmed fish.

Seeing this gap, Lou, along with his co-founders, launched BlueNalu and set out to find the best scientists and investors to make their cellular aquaculture dreams come true.

In this conversation we cover:

The state of the commercial fishing industry.
How cellular aquaculture can provide a viable alternative to fish farming and the wild-caught products.
Issues within commercial fish today that BlueNalu hopes to solve, such as unstable pricing, fish mislabeling, and concerns over toxins, Mercury, and plastic pollution.
BlueNalu’s plans for roll out and the logistics and strategy that comes with creating a cell-based company.

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#72 - Suzy Amis Cameron: On a Mission to Save the Planet – and Future Generations – One Meal at a Time Oct 24, 2018

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Suzy Amis Cameron is a noted environmental advocate, former actor and model, and mother of five. In addition to founding MUSE School with her sister Rebecca Amis, she has founded a number of environmental organizations, including Cameron Family Farms (together with her husband, director James Cameron), Plant Power Task Force, Food Forest Organics, and Red Carpet Green Dress.

In this conversation we cover:

One Meal a Day for the Planet (or OMD), the movement Suzy founded that is a multi-pronged effort to transform eating habits and the food system, and her new book titled OMD: The Simple, Plant-Based Program to Save Your Health, Save Your Waistline, and Save the Planet.
Her work with the MUSE school, the first school to serve plant-based meals at lunch in the U.S, and how she plans to take it global.
Why she and James founded the largest organic pea protein fractionation facility in the world and their plans to make plant-based food lines.

Suzy is doing incredible things to educate people about the positive impact of a plant-based diet, to hear more about her upcoming initiatives, listen in!

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#71 - Ryan Bethencourt: Reinventing Pet Food and Building the Post-Animal Bio Economy Oct 10, 2018

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Ryan Bethencourt is a scientist, entrepreneur, and biohacker. He is the CEO of Wild Earth, an innovative company that’s reinventing pet food as well as a Partner at Babel ventures, which helps fund emerging biotech companies. Ryan also co-founded IndieBio, an accelerator that helps scientists become entrepreneurs, which helped launched Memphis Meats, Clara Foods, New Wave Foods and more.

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#70 - How Can We Get Food Service Providers and Institutions to Add Plant-Based Foods to the Menu? Oct 03, 2018

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This episode features a recording of a panel discussion from the Reducetarian Summit, held in Los Angeles at the end of September 2018. The goal of the summit was to spark solution-driven conversations and inspire action that can help individuals and communities decrease meat consumption.

I had the pleasure of moderating a panel called “Transforming Food Service” that focused on how can we encourage food service providers and institutions to promote and incorporate more plant-based foods on the menu.

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