#eatfortheplanet With Nil Zacharias

Chad Sarno is a plant-based chef who is on a mission to get everyone in the world to consume more plants. Throughout his career, Chad has launched six plant-based restaurants in Istanbul, Munich, London and Belgrade, educated young chefs as VP of Plant-Based Wellness at Rouxbe Cooking School and served as the Global Health and Wellness Coordinator and R&D Chef for Whole Foods Market. If that wasn’t enough, he is also one of the creators of the Wicked Healthy brand along with his brother Chef Derek Sarno, and serves as the co-Founder, Executive Chef, and Vice President of Culinary for Good Catch Foods, a company on a mission to create plant-based seafood. Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/chad-sarno 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

Jeffrey Harris is the co-founder of Plant Power Fast Food, an all vegan fast-food chain.  In this conversation we get into: Why Jeffrey wanted to start a vegan fast food chain and how he found his co-founders to make it a reality. The changing landscape of fast food and he gives his take on big chains like White Castle and Carls Jr offering plant-based options. Jeffrey also shares his vision for what fast food chains will look like in the next decade, factoring shifting consumer trends. Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/jeffrey-harris Learn how Eat For The Planet can help your brand: https://eftp.co/services Twitter: @nilzach Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peggy Neu is the President of the Monday Campaigns, the non-profit that originally founded Meatless Monday. In this engaging conversation we get into: Meatless Monday’s strategy for success. How the organization has been able to get this initiative into schools, businesses, local governments, and countries all across the world.  Insight into the simple power of the campaign and what they have done to make their approach to meat reduction so effective.  Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/peggy-neu 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

Asher Brown is the CEO and Founder of Pollution Studios, a digital content agency, specializing in telling stories across a wide variety of platforms. Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/asher-brown 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

Audrey Lawson-Sanchez is the CEO of Balanced, a nonprofit aimed at making healthy food more accessible in workplaces, schools, hospitals, universities, and retail spaces across the country. In this conversation, we get into: The concept of food environments and how this plays a major role in our ability to choose better options. How institutions can change their overall approach to meal planning in order to foster better decision making. Success stories of schools and institutions that have implemented meal changes. Audrey’s future plans to spread the Balanced message. Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/audrey-lawson-sanchez 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

John Mackey is the founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market. He helped fuel the rise of organic and natural food in the United States and also popularized the idea of “Conscious Capitalism.” John is a best selling author and recently came out with a companion to the, The Whole Foods Diet, called the Whole Foods Cookbook. Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/john-mackey-2 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

Ari Nessel is an investor and philanthropist who is on a mission to transform the way we relate to our food and one another by funding companies and projects that are actively working to disrupt factory farming. Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/ari-nessel 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

Considering the state of our oceans with overfishing driving fish stocks to the point of collapse, rising sea temperatures, ocean acidification, and plastic pollution infiltrating even the most remote and pristine waters of the world, we desperately need to find a viable alternative to wild caught and farmed fish. Seeing this gap, Lou, along with his co-founders, launched BlueNalu and set out to find the best scientists and investors to make their cellular aquaculture dreams come true. In this conversation we cover: The state of the commercial fishing industry. How cellular aquaculture can provide a viable alternative to fish farming and the wild-caught products. Issues within commercial fish today that BlueNalu hopes to solve, such as unstable pricing, fish mislabeling, and concerns over toxins, Mercury, and plastic pollution. BlueNalu’s plans for roll out and the logistics and strategy that comes with creating a cell-based company. Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/lou-cooperhouse Newslette

Suzy Amis Cameron is a noted environmental advocate, former actor and model, and mother of five. In addition to founding MUSE School with her sister Rebecca Amis, she has founded a number of environmental organizations, including Cameron Family Farms (together with her husband, director James Cameron), Plant Power Task Force, Food Forest Organics, and Red Carpet Green Dress. In this conversation we cover: One Meal a Day for the Planet (or OMD), the movement Suzy founded that is a multi-pronged effort to transform eating habits and the food system, and her new book titled OMD: The Simple, Plant-Based Program to Save Your Health, Save Your Waistline, and Save the Planet. Her work with the MUSE school, the first school to serve plant-based meals at lunch in the U.S, and how she plans to take it global. Why she and James founded the largest organic pea protein fractionation facility in the world and their plans to make plant-based food lines. Suzy is doing incredible things to educate people about the positi

Ryan Bethencourt is a scientist, entrepreneur, and biohacker. He is the CEO of Wild Earth, an innovative company that’s reinventing pet food as well as a Partner at Babel ventures, which helps fund emerging biotech companies. Ryan also co-founded IndieBio, an accelerator that helps scientists become entrepreneurs, which helped launched Memphis Meats, Clara Foods, New Wave Foods and more. Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/ryan-bethencourt 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

This episode features a recording of a panel discussion from the Reducetarian Summit, held in Los Angeles at the end of September 2018. The goal of the summit was to spark solution-driven conversations and inspire action that can help individuals and communities decrease meat consumption. I had the pleasure of moderating a panel called “Transforming Food Service” that focused on how can we encourage food service providers and institutions to promote and incorporate more plant-based foods on the menu. Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/reducetarian-2018 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

Victor Friedberg is the Co-Founder & Managing Director of S2G Ventures, a multi-stage food and agriculture venture fund investing in entrepreneurs whose products and services meet the shifting demands for healthy and sustainable food. He is also the Founder and Chairman of FoodShot Global, a new non-profit investment platform that aims to catalyze breakthrough scientific and technological solutions in our food system.  Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/victor-friedberg 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

Josh Balk is Vice President of Farm Animal Protection for the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS).  Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/josh-balk 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

Jody Rasch is the Managing Trustee of VegInvest, an investment fund that provides early-stage capital and guidance to companies striving to replace the use of animals in food as well as lab research and testing. Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/jody-rasch 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

Derek Sarno is the Executive Chef and Director of Plant Based Innovation at Tesco. He is also the co-founder of Wicked Healthy, a plant-based food blog that he co-founded with his brother Chad Sarno, and is a co-founder of Good Catch Foods, an innovative company making plant-based seafood. If that wasn’t enough to catch your attention, he also served as the Senior Global Executive Chef of Recipe and Product Development at Whole Foods Market. Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/derek-sarno 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

Ben developed the idea for Plant Based World Conference and Expo as a result of his own drastic transition to a plant-based lifestyle and earnest desire to make the world a better place. The expo is set to take place in June of 2019 and will serve as a place where plant-based product manufacturers, food service providers, retailers, entrepreneurs, investors, healthcare professionals and consumers alike can receive education, high level networking opportunities and the most up to date innovations in plant-based living. The expo has already garnered the support of leading organizations in the space, such as Good Food Institute and the Plant-Based Foods Association, and will tackle issues that are relevant to the industry and movement. In this conversation, Ben and I get into why this expo is needed and dive deeper into what he hopes this sort of conference will achieve. If you are interested in the world plant-based food and are looking to learn more about this incredible event as well as much more, listen in!

Victoria Moran is a renowned author, speaker, vegan lifestyle coach and educator, and the host of the popular podcast, Main Street Vegan. Victoria has been vegan for over three decades and has dedicated her career to helping people eat plant-based themselves and remove cruelty from every aspect of their lives. But she does much much more than tell people why they should go vegan and how to do it. Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/victoria-moran 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

Liz Dee is the Co-President and Co-Owner of Smarties Candy Company, CEO of Baleine & Bjorn Capital, a firm that’s committed to investing in companies creating superior plant-based and cultured products, and Founder of Vegan Ladyboss, a global collective that works to empower and support vegan women in advancing their careers and animal advocacy.  Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/liz-dee 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

Matt Tullman is the CEO of Alpine Organics, a company on a mission to provide every individual who eats plant-based with the knowledge about, and access to, the essential nutrients required to thrive. Their first product, Complement, is a nutrient spray packed with B-12, Vitamin D3, and the omega-3 fatty acids DHA and EPA. Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/matt-tullman 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

Bruce Friedrich is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Good Food Institute or GFI, a non-profit that is working to transform animal agriculture by promoting the development of innovative alternatives to meat and seafood.  Bruce has been a guest on episode three of the #EatForThePlanet podcast and introduced us to GFI’s work with plant-based meat companies and cellular agriculture, or clean meat, startups. Show notes for this episode: https://eftp.co/bruce-friedrich-2 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