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In this episode we talk with Dr Laura Freeman, Medical Director & Co Founder of Plant Based Health Online.  A team of leading experts have come together to deliver healthcare in a way that puts their patients and families first. Dr Laura Freeman is extremely passionate about what she does – not just because of the science – but because she has seen that it has helped her patients’ lives a...

In this episode we talk with Chuck Muth, Chief Growth Officer of Beyond Meat. We discuss the positives that can be taken from the challenging year that was 2020.  Beyond Meat have launched an impressive range of new products from the Beyond Breakfast Sausage and Patties to the Beyond Meatballs.  We hear about the focus on China, from local manufacturing and combating the growing demand o...

In this episode we talk with Alex Felipelli, Founder and CEO of Veggly. Veggly is a dating app that is aimed at vegan and vegetarians. Dating can be very difficult, especially if you are looking for a connection with someone that has similar values. For vegans and vegetarians, it helps if you know going into it that the other person thinks and eats like you. You can share meals knowing you agree o...

In this episode we speak with Joey Pringle, Founder of Veshin Factory. Joey's first break into fashion came in Melbourne, Australia as an accessories designer. Then after graduating with a BA Honors in furniture and product design, Joey relocated to Vancouver Canada creating bags and more recently the accessories for Tentree. During his time at Tentree his job took him to working with factories ac...

In this episode we talk with Seth Goldman, Chairman of Beyond Meat. Seth talks to me about his new venture Eat The Change, a movement to help people realise that their diet has the single biggest impact on the planet. Alongside his mission to change peoples' diet and behaviour he is launching a new mushroom jerky product line. By partnering with Whole Foods he has also launched a chain of healthy...

In this episode we talk with Irina Gerry, CMO of Change Foods about how food tech is driving the revolution towards a sustainable future. Change Foods are an early stage food tech company using precision fermentation to produce bio identical compounds to dairy. Alternative cheese is what they have eyes on for their first product. They did a great job to move to hire the very the articulate Irina a...

In this episode we speak with Logan Sullivan, Co Founder and CEO of Counterfactual Ventures.  Counterfactual has ambitious plans and has a unique approach by being a venture builder, an incubator and a VC fund all within one company. It focuses exclusively on the alternative protein, food and material space with the aim of reducing the amount of factory farming.  By taking 500 sustainabi...

In this episode we speak with Rich Kelleman, Founder and CEO of Bond Pet Foods. Rich spent most of career in the Ad industry and whist he was working with Burger King and learning more about the meat industry he decided to go vegan. Researching and reading books like 'Eating Animals' also helped him make the decision.  After he became a dog owner and realised the impact the pet food industry...

In this episode we speak with both Kunal Sethi, Managing Partner and Alexandra Clark, General Partner of S CAP.  The climate crisis and animals is at the heart of their decision making in the choice of companies in which to invest in.  Those companies being later stage series B that are plant-based, cellular agriculture or ingredient tech firms. By focusing on institutional investors the...

In this episode we speak the with remarkable Damoy Robertson, the Founder of The Vegan Review. Damoy's new publication is for vegans and non vegans. His aim is to breakdown the barriers to veganism and describes his content as a cross between The Guardian and Vice Media. Of Jamaican heritage we discuss how the Rastafarian belief system of Ital revolves around eating a plant-based diet. Damoy is al...

In this episode we speak with the incredible Victoria Moran, Founder and Director of Main Street Vegan. Victoria is an Author, Director, Vegan Lifestyle Coach & Educator.  We discuss the Main Street Vegan Academy where she has created a certification program in which individuals who are already vegan learn to teach and counsel others.  We touch on her extensive knowledge on Yoga, Spi...

In this episode we talk with Prashant Kumbhat, Founder and CEO of Get Vegan Grub.  Get Vegan Grub is on a mission to help foodies find vegan food easily. They work with independent food businesses and help them sell vegan food online. Prashant is driving his business based on ethics and sustainability, even down to the third party companies he choses to work with. They are a cruelty-free alte...

In this episode we speak with Ria Rehberg CEO of Veganuary.  Veganuary has helped transition over 1m people towards a vegan diet.  With her background in business and intercultural communications and having worked in animal equality/protection it was a great fit for her to join the founders of the UK Charity Veganuary in 2019. The aim of Veganuary is to get people to eat a plant-based di...

Undercover investigator reveals his latest investigation to what he and other experts believe could cause the next global pandemic.  A look at how diary cows are being passed off as organic and could have untraceable diseases, purely for financial gains. A fascinating insight into the minds of the workers and their motivations. The workers are clearly mirroring the working conditions and trea...

In this episode we speak with George Gill the CEO of The Vegan Society.  George's grandmother laid down an ultimatum and told him to give up meat otherwise she wouldn't talk to him again. That inspired him to make healthy choices and he joined the The Vegan Society the first and oldest vegan association in the world.  With his background in brand licensing helped The Vegan Society's Trad...

In this episode we speak with Adam Hanft, Founder and CEO of Hanft Projects.  Adam has had an interesting career ranging from comedy writing in Hollywood to running a creative agency that he sold to WPP.  He spotted the early trend of plant-based foods and invested in Eat Just Inc.  Today he works with Siddhi Capital, Undertone and also has board positions at Scotts Miracle Grow and...

In this episode we talk to Jay Karandikar Venture Partner at New Crop Capital.  When Jay was at college he learnt about the  'Earning to give' concept which came from the philosophy of Effective Altruism and was intrigued by this idea. In order to to maximise the amount of good you can do in the world, one way is to earn money and use that for a cause you care about.  He chose farm...

In this thought provoking chat we sit down with Arturo Elizondo, CEO of Clara Foods.  In his early years he grew up in Mexico and the USA.  He had first hand experience working in Washington DC for the US Department of Agriculture. Which regulates all the slaughter houses in the country with the Food Safety Inspection Service.  It blew his mind that over 1m animals are slaughtered e...

In this exclusive launch chat we speak with Ryan Bethencourt and Mariliis Holm Co-Founders of Sustainable Food Ventures.   The husband and wife duo's mission is to support founders developing sustainable food products and scaling profitable companies in the global $12 Trillion food and grocery retail market. They back early stage founders building leading food companies that are plant-ba...

In this episode we talk with Geraldine Starke, CEO & Founder of Refarm'd.  Refarm'd is providing Dairy Farmers with alternative way of life - to meet with the growing demand of plant based milk.  Dairy Farmers can then use their farm as an animal sanctuary. Refarm'd provide all the necessary equipment, recipes, ingredients and customers to convert their dairy farm to produce Oat Milk...

GrowSquares is a new breed of company which is combining nature and technology to help you successfully grow the best plants.  By using data points from your mobile phone GrowSquares builds up a picture of your environment using data science.  It will then rank and recommend the best types of plants to grow.  They then deliver you personalised soil with seeds to fit your defined out...

Perseverance is what is needed for successful start-ups and Veronica Fil CEO of Grounded Foods has plenty of it. She took the leap together with her partner and Co-Founder Shaun Quade to make the move from Australia to follow their mission. They decided to come across to the US to launch their alternative cheese food brand. This came about after chef Shaun was making plant-based dishes in his rest...

In this episode we speak with Fengru Lin CEO and Max Rye Chief Strategist from TurtleTree Labs in Singapore.  They are on a mission to create sustainable lab grown milk.  Having securing a large seed round, they are looking at cracking the baby formula milk market as their first product. The product will recreate the nutritional value of real human milk and will be used to enhance formul...

In this episode we talk to David Yeung the CEO of Green Monday, OmniFoods and Green Common. With Green Monday he is making an impact in Hong Kong with his social enterprise that has gained great awareness by helping people reduce meat consumption.  Pork is the highest meat being consumed in China, therefore creating a luncheon alternative with OmniPork will dramatically reduce the cruelty bei...

In this episode we speak with Darko Mandich CEO of MeliBio, an exciting new startup which is on a mission to recreate honey from plants using biotech.  Darko mentions in the interview that 2bn people consumer honey everyday. Bees are wonderfully adapted to pollinate, helping plants grow, breed and produce food. They do so by transferring pollen between flowering plants and to keep the cycle o...