#eatfortheplanet With Nil Zacharias

Dan Gluck is a Managing Partner at Powerplant Ventures (“PPV”) and current Board Member of PPV portfolio companies, Your Super, Rebbl, Thistle and Jot Coffee. Powerplant Ventures is a growth equity fund investing in emerging consumer food, beverage, foodservice and food-tech companies. PPV provides capital, strategic guidance and operating expertise to visionary teams leading disruptive plant-centric brands. Notable portfolio companies include breakout brands such as Beyond Meat, Ripple Foods, Thrive Market, and Apeel Sciences. PPV is currently investing out of its second, $165M fund. More about this episode: https://eftp.co/powerplant-ventures Newsletter signup: https://eftp.co/newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow Nil Zacharias on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Miyoko Schinner is the fearless CEO/founder of Miyoko’s, a food brand combining culinary traditions with food technology to revolutionize dairy by making cheese and butter without cows. Through an innovative proprietary process that merges food science with old-world creamery methods, Schinner has successfully scaled the production of fermented cheese and cultured butter made from plants. Under Schinner’s visionary leadership, Miyoko’s has replaced animal-dairy products on the shelves of more than 10,000 retailers nationwide including Target, Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods, Kroger, and Safeway. In this episode Nil Zacharias chats with Miyoko Schinner about the COVID-19 crisis and what it is revealing about ourselves, factory farming, and how plant-based food startups can survive and thrive in the uncertain months and years ahead.  More about this episode: https://eftp.co/miyoko Newsletter signup: https://eftp.co/newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow Nil Zacharias on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Vis

Hälsa Foods stands for healthier people and planet. The company was founded by Helena Lumme and Mika Manninen on their innovation of the new 100% clean plant-based platform. Hälsa makes America's only oat milk yogurt made from whole grain oats and the world's first dairy-free yogurt without a single artificial ingredient. More about this episode: https://eftp.co/halsa Newsletter signup: https://eftp.co/newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow Nil Zacharias on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Before the Butcher offers the market’s broadest choice of meat alternatives for the growing number of consumers who are reducing their consumption of meat products. The company’s UNCUT brand of plant meat is sold through both retail and foodservice channels. More about this episode: https://eftp.co/before-the-butcher Newsletter signup: https://eftp.co/newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow Nil Zacharias on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Founded by Jacob Pechenik and Zooey Deschanel, Lettuce Grow is on a mission to bring much-needed change to our food system and help people use fewer resources by growing healthier food at home. Lettuce Grow's self-watering, self-fertilizing hydroponic Farmstands are vertical vegetable gardens made from ocean-bound recycled plastic that make it easy and fun for everyone to grow fresh food, no matter their gardening knowledge or background. Lettuce Grow’s Farmstands provide a serious harvest while remaining accessible to the modern, busy lifestyle — finally making “grow your own” a viable path forward to a better food future for all.  More about this episode: https://eftp.co/lettuce-grow Newsletter signup: https://eftp.co/newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow Nil Zacharias on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Meatless for all is the mission of Rebellyous Foods. The Rebellyous team is designing new equipment and processes to make better tasting, more affordable plant-based meat so that people anywhere – and on any budget – can have delicious, plant-based meat that is better for them, better for the planet, and better for animals.  More about this episode: https://eftp.co/rebellyous Newsletter signup: https://eftp.co/newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow Nil Zacharias on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sara Cullen is the founder of GEM, an algae-based science company working to simplify daily health habits. GEM makes real food products that optimize daily nutrition. Sara has a BS in international agricultural development studies from Cornell University and has worked with women entrepreneurs and farmers in sustainable food networks all over the world, from Morocco and Kenya to India and Vietnam. As a 2x entrepreneur in the food & beverage world and a former Venture for America Fellow, Sara is passionate about redesigning a healthier future for women and fundamentally changing the way we nourish ourselves. More about this episode: https://eftp.co/gem Newsletter signup: https://eftp.co/newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow Nil Zacharias on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robby Barbaro, MPH is co-founder of Mastering Diabetes and co-author of Mastering Diabetes. He is a diabetes coach, educator, and international speaker who has been living with type 1 diabetes for more than twenty years. Since 2006, Robby has used an evidence-based approach to his personal health and fitness, built on a foundation of low-fat, plant-based, whole-food nutrition. More about this episode: https://eftp.co/mastering-diabetes Newsletter signup: https://eftp.co/newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow Nil Zacharias on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tyler Mayoras has over 20 years of private equity investing experience and is currently the Co-Manager of the $155 million Advantage Capital Food & Ag Fund. Mr. Mayoras invests in and helps scale growing food and agriculture companies. He is involved with portfolio companies Shenandoah Growers, Farmhouse Culture, Snaxsational Brands and NurturMe. Mr. Mayoras is also an angel investor with a focus on sustainable brands including Simple Mills, Tiesta Tea, EVR Foods (Lavva), Spero Foods and CB Food Company (Cool Beans). More about this episode: https://eftp.co/tyler-mayoras Newsletter signup: https://eftp.co/newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow Nil Zacharias on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AKUA creates carbon-negative foods made from ocean-farmed seagreens that are healthy and healing for our planet. The company believes food should be nourishing for humans, the environment, and have a positive impact on local communities. Launched in 2019, Kelp Jerky is AKUA's first product, a high-protein, soy-free snack which won a spot on Time Magazine's Inventions of the Year list. More about this episode: https://eftp.co/akua Newsletter signup: https://eftp.co/newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow Nil Zacharias on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dream Pops is re-imagining ice cream for the next generation. Their plant-based frozen bars are less than 100 calories, less than 5g of total sugar and are powered by superfoods and adaptogens. Dream Pops believes that the next frontier in snacking is functional frozen - and that the freezer aisle was in dire need of an upgrade. More about this episode: https://eftp.co/dream-pops Newsletter signup: https://eftp.co/newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow Nil Zacharias on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rebecca Amis and Jeff King run MUSE Global, an international education system offering effective, innovative, and passion-based learning experiences within a plant-based, sustainable environment. Founded in 2006 by sisters Suzy Amis Cameron and Rebecca Amis, the flagship MUSE School in Calabasas quickly grew to two campuses, now with over 200 students. In the summer of 2018, MUSE Global was born – an international franchise model dedicated to sharing its vision of inspiring and preparing our future leaders to live consciously with themselves, one another, and the planet. Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/muse-global Newsletter signup: https://eftp.co/newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow Nil Zacharias on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

TurtleTree Labs is the first biotech company in the world with the ability to create milk from all mammals. Using their proprietary cell-based methods, they will shape the future of not just how we get dairy milk but how humans will feed their infants. To maximize impact, the team will work with industry leaders to adopt their sustainable and safe methods to create milk. TurtleTree Labs is able to have a 98% reduction in carbon footprint and as a result will help to save the world by replacing dairy cows in the future. Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/turtletree-labs Newsletter signup: https://eftp.co/newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow Nil Zacharias on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After concluding a prolific professional cycling career that produced a medal at the 2012 London Olympic Games, eight US national championships, two Pan American gold medals, and a world record, Dotsie Bausch has become a powerful influencer for plant-based eating for athletes and non-athletes alike. Bausch is advocating for animals and people on an international stage. She has been featured in the Netflix documentary “Personal Gold,” starred in the documentary “The Game Changers,” and gave a popular TEDx Talk, “Olympic Level Compassion.” Her latest initiative is Switch4Good, an athlete-driven nonprofit working toward a dairy-free future.  Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/switch4good Newsletter signup: https://eftp.co/newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow Nil Zacharias on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hodo Foods makes delicious, wholesome, plant-based foods including tofu and yuba that are ready-to-eat or easy to cook. Hodo products use organic, clean, minimally processed nutrient-dense ingredients, and are all gluten-free and plant-based. Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/hodo-foods Newsletter signup: https://eftp.co/newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow Nil Zacharias on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Abbot’s Butcher crafts premium plant-based meats that are soy free and non GMO, using simple, high quality ingredients like golden peas, vegetables, herbs, spices, extra virgin olive oil and vinegars.  Episode Page: https://eftp.co/abbots-butcher Newsletter signup: https://eftp.co/newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow Nil Zacharias on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Plant Based World is the only professional trade show in the world dedicated to bringing the plant-based movement to an audience of food industry professionals, healthcare professionals and the general public. Its mission is to grow the plant-based industry to increase the accessibility of plant-based foods and products to make the world a healthier place for all living beings. Newsletter signup: https://eftp.co/newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow Nil Zacharias on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sweet Farm is a non-profit aimed at creating a more compassionate and sustainable world by addressing the profoundly negative impacts of industrialized agriculture on both animals and plants. To do this, Sweet Farm drives systemic impact through a combination of education, inspiration, and innovation. Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/sweet-farm Newsletter signup: https://eftp.co/newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow Nil Zacharias on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alison Rabshnuk leads the Good Food Institute’s Corporate Engagement department and advises some of the world’s largest food companies, restaurants, and retailers on business opportunities in the rapidly evolving fields of plant- based and cultivated meat, eggs, and dairy. Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/alison-rabschnuk Newsletter signup: https://eftp.co/newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow Nil Zacharias on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

GlassWall Syndicate is a large group of venture capitalists, foundations, trusts, nonprofits, and individual investors who are all united by their desire to take animals out of the supply chain and are choosing direct investments as a tool to do so. GWS shares deal flow, contacts, analysis, expertise, and more - helping promising companies grow in this space by providing them with significant capital, resources, mentorship, and other forms of support. Macy Marriott leads GlassWall Syndicate and is also the Venture Analyst for Stray Dog Capital. Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/glasswall-syndicate Newsletter signup: https://eftp.co/newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow Nil Zacharias on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices