Eat For The Planet with Nil Zacharias

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#19 - Bite-Sized News: 3 Hot New Food Trends Oct 04, 2017

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This week's episode highlights news and trends in the plant-based food industry based on what I saw at this year's Natural Products Expo East, recently held in Baltimore. I identify the following 3 trends as the hottest new ones to keep an eye on:

1. The evolution of dairy-free products

2. The demand for clean, whole ingredients in plant-based proteins

3. The emergence of functional snacks and beverages

This episode also features commentary from representatives of the following brands: Califia Farms, Field Roast, Follow Your Heart, Good Catch Foods, Good Seed Burger, Kite Hill, Milkidamia, Miyoko's Kitchen, Navitas, No Bull Burger, No Evil Foods, REBBL, Sweet Earth Foods, Teaonic, Uptons Naturals, Vegan Rob's, and Veggemo.

To learn more about the latest and greatest products and how brands are stepping up their game, you'll have to listen in!

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#18 - A Food Entrepreneur's Journey With Miyoko Schinner, the Queen of Vegan Cheese Sep 27, 2017

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Miyoko Schinner is Founder and CEO of Miyoko's Kitchen. In this interview we talk about her recent success with Miyoko’s Kitchen as well as the challenges she faced scaling the business. From the simple logistics she wishes she had thought through before diving in, to how to choose the right investor, Miyoko shares the advice she was given and the things she had to find out the hard way.

Miyoko wants to change the world with her food. Listen in to this wide-ranging conversation and you'll understand why I think she's probably going to make it happen.

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#17 - How Media is Shaping the Future of Food Sep 20, 2017

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This episode features my recent interview with Jerry Sever for Plant-Based Business Week, an online conference that showcased 30+ of the world’s top experts across the plant-based industry.

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#16 - Hope Springs Eternal in a Food Swamp, Thanks to Stephen Ritz of Green Bronx Machine Sep 13, 2017

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Stephen Ritz, the founder of Green Bronx Machine, is a Bronx native and educator in the public school system, who has seen how an excess of cheap, unhealthy food can negatively impact a community.

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#15 - Califia Farms: Building the Food and Beverage Company of the Future with Greg Steltenpohl Sep 06, 2017

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I recently had the honor of sitting down with Greg Steltenpohl, co-founder and CEO of Califia Farms, a company that makes dairy-free milks, citrus juices, and specialty coffee drinks.

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#14 - Good Food Can Change the World: Craig Cochran on Growing a Restaurant Business in NYC Aug 30, 2017

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Craig Cochran is the co-owner of Terri, a 100 percent plant-based fast casual restaurant with 3 locations in NYC. He also recently launched a new restaurant, P.S. Kitchen that caters to a more high-end palate and donates all their profits to charity. In our conversation, Craig tells the story of how he worked his way from being employed at some of NYC’s first vegan restaurants to eventually starting his own.

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#13 - The Plant Based Foods Association: Michele Simon on the Fight to Create a Better Food System Aug 23, 2017

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Michele Simon is the executive director of the Plant Based Foods Association, a trade group with over 80 members, whose goal is to level the playing field for plant-based food.

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#12 - The Rigged Economics of American Meat and Dairy With David Simon Aug 16, 2017

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In this episode, I speak with David Simon, lawyer, sustainable consumption advocate, and author of the book Meatonomics. In our chat, we get into the externalized costs of the meat industry, specifically, the burden on taxpayers, the environment, and of course animals that keep this mega industry afloat.

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#11 - Rules of Healthy Eating Decoded by Dr. Michelle McMacken Aug 09, 2017

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Dr. Michelle McMacken is a board certified internal medicine physician at Bellevue Hospital and an assistant professor of medicine at NYU School of Medicine. She is an advocate for plant-based nutrition and has helped transform the lives of many of her patients by focusing on their food choices and guiding them to improve their overall well-being through healthy eating and lifestyle modifications.

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#10 - Can Seafood be Sustainable? Captain Paul Watson of Sea Shepherd on How to Save the Oceans Aug 02, 2017

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Few people have a better understanding of the oceans and their current state than Captain Paul Watson, President, CEO and founder of Sea Shepherd.