Awesome Vegans with Elysabeth Alfano

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/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at el...

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 information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com. For more inf...

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, visit ElysabethAlfano.com. Connect with Elysabeth on...

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 longevity and how to fix this. Subscribe! For plant-ba...

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. Subscribe! For plant-based media/branding consultin...

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, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For mo...

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 at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more informa...

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@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit...

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 things important to incorporate into our investin...

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 more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com. For m...

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 at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more inform...

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 and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabe...

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 sustainable? Can it be wholesome...and what does that even m...

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-based solution and using it to fix the world's food s...

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://www.linkedin.com/in/elysabeth-alfano-8b370b7/ For...

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://www.linkedin.com/in/elysabeth-alfano-8b370b7/ For...

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, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For...

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 why the besties don't talk about Plant-based Innovat...

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 speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfa...

​​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 public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabeth...

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 the business elements that can further misinforma...

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 public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalf...

Ian Monroe, President and CIO of Etho Capital joined me on the VegTech Invest Inside & Impact serie s and also The Plantbased Business Hour.   We discuss impact investing to go from climate negative to climate positive through emissions avoidance. Specifically, we discuss The Climate+Positive Initiative and what it accomplishes Who are the key players in Climate+Positive investing (spoiler alert:...

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 miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding con...

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 consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@...