Ep. 08: Dispatch from the Frontier of Food

<p dir="auto">Through this season of Feeding 10 Billion, two names that have cropped up in nearly every episode are the pioneers of plant-based meats: Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods. <a href= "https://www.beyondmeat.com/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener"><strong>Beyond Meat</strong></a> had the biggest IPO in North America in the last two decades this year. <a href="https://impossiblefoods.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Impossible Foods</strong></a> was first served in Michelin starred restaurants in 2016 and is now making waves at chains like Burger King thanks to its plant-based beef burger being served as the Impossible Whopper - leading to BK’s best quarter in the last four years. On this special episode of Feeding 10 Billion, we feature a conversation between senior executives of these companies (Seth Goldman - Executive Chairman at Beyond Meat, and David Lipman - Chief Scientific Officer at Impossible Foods) and representatives of organisations like FAIRR, Centre for Biological Diversity and Institute for the Future’s Future Food Lab, along with Varun Deshpande, Managing Director at the Good Food Institute India. The conversation took place at a panel during the blockbuster second iteration of the Good Food Conference in San Francisco. With 900 people in attendance, the session focused on some of the weightiest issues surrounding plant-based and cultivated meat’s potential to address antibiotic resistance, global malnutrition and poverty, climate change and natural resource utilization. Of course, this is a massive undertaking that needs to balance business with issues such as biodiversity as well as global access to good food. The government, investors, companies, and even themselves - these panelists pull punches for nobody!</p> <p dir="auto">Show Notes-<br /> This episode features panelists from the panel: The “Why”: Mitigating Environmental and Public Health Risks at the <a href="https://goodfoodconference.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Good Food Conference</strong></a> held