#eatfortheplanet With Nil Zacharias

This is one of the longest interviews I’ve conducted and I promise you this is a conversation about food, health and nutrition unlike any you have heard before. Whether you are a food manufacturer or trying to learn more about health and nutrition, there’s a lot you can take away from it. Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/brenda-davis 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

I recently had the honor of sitting down with Brooklyn Borough President, Eric Adams to hear more about his journey back to health using plant-based nutrition. Adams has turned his personal success into a citywide campaign. He holds discussions about the benefits of a plant-based diet at the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, has implemented a policy mandating all events at Borough Hall have plant-based options, and has built a community for doctors who focus on plant-based nutrition. Not to mention, he has helped start community-based plant-based challenges in churches to further spread the message that a plant-based diet leads to better health and longevity. Eric Adams is all about empowering people and giving them the tools they need to fight for a better food system. If you want to learn more about how to affect this kind of change in your community, do not miss this episode! Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/eric-adams Newsletter signup: https://eftp.co/newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow Nil

The Eat For The Planet book is going to be released on March 20, 2018, and is available for pre-order now!  This fast-paced, fact-rich, graphic-heavy book discusses the connection between factory farming and environmental destruction but also presents a simple solution ANYONE can embrace today and it doesn’t matter if you call yourself a vegan, vegetarian, flexitarian, or an avid meat-lover.  Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/eftp-book 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

I recently had the chance to chat with Jenné Claiborne, author of The Sweet Potato Soul Cookbook.  In our conversation, we discuss how she went from being a waitress at a vegan restaurant in NYC to a sought-after YouTuber, Instagrammer and cookbook author who has appeared on the TODAY show and several other national TV shows. While her blog fame has undoubtedly helped boost Jenne’s own celebrity, she remains incredibly grounded because she is driven by the sole goal of empowering everyone to reclaim their health and help animals and the planet using plant-based food. Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/jenne-claiborne 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

Ela Madej is a successful tech entrepreneur and a founding partner of Fifty Years, a venture capital firm focused on working with companies combining purpose and profit to solve some of the world’s biggest problems. Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/ela-madej 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

I caught up with Matt and Cierra de Gruyter, the Founders of Next Level Burger, while they were in New York for their grand opening and they were kind enough to share their time and insights with me. This is by far one of the most fun interviews I’ve had the pleasure of doing, not only are Matt and Cierra incredibly charming, but their passion for bringing healthy, affordable plant-based food to the world is so clear and inspiring. Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/matt-cierra-degruyter 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

Lisa Feria is the CEO of Stray Dog Capital, a venture capital firm that is focused on driving alternatives to the use of animals in the supply chain through investments, expertise, and support. Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/lisa-feria 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

Kathy Freston is a wellness activist and writer with a focus on healthy eating and conscious living. She is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous books and has been featured on The Ellen Show and The Oprah Winfrey Show, as well as many others, talking about how a plant-based diet can revolutionize your personal health and positively impact animals and the planet as well. Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/kathy-freston 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

Chris Kerr is one of the first people to help funnel early-stage investments for vegan food companies. In the early 2000s, he worked with the Humane Society of the United States to manage their investments into the plant-based food industry and played a key role in helping Daiya cheese secure distribution in Whole Foods Market. With New Crop Capital, Chris is helping some of the top brands that we know and love through investment funding as well as mentorship, all with the goal of advancing plant-based food and reshaping the food system. Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/chris-kerr 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

Dr. Will Tuttle is an award-winning speaker and author. A former Zen monk with a Ph.D. from U.C., Berkeley, he has worked extensively in intuition development, spiritual healing, meditation, vegan living, and cultural evolution. Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/will-tuttle 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

Marion Nestle has devoted her career to educating the public about how the food industry influences our society and personal health, serving as the Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University as well as a professor of Sociology and a visiting professor of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/marion-nestle 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

Paul Shapiro has spent the bulk of his career fighting on behalf of animals. As the vice president of policy engagement for the Humane Society of the United States, Paul works to promote legislation and policies that benefit the thousands of animals suffering in the entertainment or food industry. Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/paul-shapiro 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

Matthew Kenney is one of the most well-known chefs in the plant-based space. With a number of restaurants in the U.S. and overseas, Matthew is undoubtedly a pioneer in the world of high-end plant-based cuisine. But he is interested in much more than just making great food, he also values the importance of teaching individuals to cook healthy, sustainable meals for themselves. In fact, his new book PLANTLAB: Crafting the Future of Food, is focused on helping home cooks create delicious, beautiful food. Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/matthew-kenney 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

Bob Goldberg is the CEO and co-founder of Follow Your Heart. Bob and his 3 co-founders opened a vegetarian market and restaurant in Canoga Park, California nearly 47 years ago. Since then, the company has transformed into a thriving consumer packaged goods business that is known for its vegan mayonnaise and egg-less egg product that scrambles like the real thing. With the growing popularity of the plant-based food industry, Follow Your Heart has received many buy-out offers and been approached by venture capitalists, but Bob has stood by his decision to stay independent and grow on their own terms. Whether you are an entrepreneur yourself or passionate about the past, present and future of vegan food, Bob’s take on building a business with a mission to make people and the planet healthier is sure to leave you inspired and energized. Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/bob-goldberg Newsletter signup: https://eftp.co/newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow Nil Zacharias on Twitter Learn more about you

As the Global Program Chef at Google, Scott Giambastiani is in charge of feeding some of the most brilliant people in the world. Not only that, though, he has the added challenge of making the cafeterias and dining experiences in all of Google’s offices as nutritious and sustainable as possible. Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/scott-giambastiani 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

For more than two decades Mark Bittman's popular stories appeared in the New York Times, where he was ultimately the lead food writer for the Sunday Magazine and became the country’s first food-focused Op-Ed columnist for a major news publication. Mark has authored over 20 books and the tenth-anniversary edition of his bestselling kitchen classic “How to Cook Everything Vegetarian,” was recently published. Mark may write a lot about how to cook vegetables, and even has a book dedicated to helping people eat vegan before 6:00, but he is an adamant meat eater himself. This makes for a rather interesting conversation. The bottom line is everyone needs to eat much less meat and way more plant-based foods if we want to create a truly sustainable food system, and fight the health crisis we’re facing in this country and globally. That’s why I believe a conversation like this between people who share similar goals but may not share the same views on everything is so important. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Sh

Gunnar Lovelace is the founder and co-CEO of Thrive Market, an online retailer that is making healthy living accessible to Americans by providing organic and non-GMO groceries at discounted rates. Having grown up poor, with a single mom, Gunnar is incredibly sensitive to the challenges many Americans face with food access and he is also well versed in how modern capitalism is designed to externalize a lot of the costs that make unhealthy food so cheap. With these two things in mind, Gunnar set out to change how people purchase groceries, cutting out the middlemen to foster more just and sustainable supply chains that can effectively lower the cost of better quality food and products for the consumer. To learn more about how Gunnar hopes to transform the food system by making healthy, organic food affordable and accessible to everyone, listen in! Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/gunnar-lovelace Newsletter signup: https://eftp.co/newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow Nil Zacharias on Twitter Lear

Ethan Brown is the CEO and Founder of Beyond Meat and he has one simple goal: make meat out of plants. In our conversation, Ethan shares details about how close his company is to creating a product that perfectly mimics the taste, texture, smell, and experience of meat. He also talks about the unique challenges and innovations that come with pioneering the plant-based protein space and what they are doing to ensure that their products are not only as close to the “real thing” as possible but made with the highest quality and most healthy ingredients they can find. Ethan has made a steadfast decision not to use GMOs or other controversial ingredients that competitors use in order to keep Beyond Meats products as clean and recognizable as possible. As you’ll hear in this conversation, he is incredibly driven and hopes to help his team become the group that completely transforms the food system. To hear more about how he plans to do that – you'll have to listen! Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/ethan

Kelly Swette is the CEO of Sweet Earth Enlightened Foods and her ultimate goal is to change the food system and make convenient, sustainable, and healthy foods the new norm. In our conversation, we talk about her incredible journey with the company and her unique take on everything from the importance of fresh ingredients and bold flavors in food to the recent acquisition of Sweet Earth by food giant, Nestle. She also provides unique and thoughtful insight into brand building and how she has helped ensure that everything from the ingredients to the packaging of Sweet Earth products exemplifies their motto of “enlightened food.” Kelly believes you have to change Big Food and from the looks of it, Sweet Earth is doing just that. Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/kelly-swette 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

David Benzaquen is the CEO of PlantBased Solutions, a strategic brand management and marketing agency for plant-based products, and Ocean Hugger Foods, a company that makes vegan seafood alternatives. Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/david-benzaquen 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