Red to Green Food Sustainability 🥩🔬♻️

Sep 11 2024 81 ep. 29 mins 603

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The most in-depth podcast on how we can make the future of food sustainability. Each topic is covered in a season of 12 episodes covering different perspectives, geographies, and solutions. Go ahead and binge-listen to seasons - 1. cell-based meat, 2. sustainable packaging, 3. consumer acceptance, 4. food waste, 5. food history for the future of food, 6. biotechnology, and 7. book talks on the food system. Hosted by science and technology historian Marina Schmidt. Let's move the food industry from harmful to healthy, from polluting to sustainable, from Red to Green.

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8.1. What is Micro Fermentation? New Cheeses Made with Koji Protein - Formo CEO Raffael Wohlgensinger

Sep 11 2024 49 mins

Find out all the details about micro fermentation. Discover how Formo is using this process to churn out Koji protein-based cheese alternatives that are hitting over 2000 stores in the DACH region. The episode breaks down the differences between micro and precision fermentation and why micro fermentation's quicker market route is so exciting. Learn about the sustainability pe

7. SEASON FINAL - BOOK TALKS - What Food Futurist are you? 🔮 Part II of Meals to Come

Nov 25 2023 19 mins

Let’s finish discussing our book “Meals to Come- The History of the Future of Food.” If you haven’t listened to the previous episode, no, But it’s not required; I will summarise the key points. You will hear about - how modern solutions of cornucopias, Malthusian, and egalitarians look like - why it can be useful to add an ecological perspective - a tapestry of som

7.10. Three Archetypes of the Future of Food - The History of the Future of Food

Jul 17 2023 35 mins

The worry and the question “will we run out of food?” is as old as humanity itself. And every couple decades this question seems to reappear in intense debates. For example it did in the 1920s, late 1940s, 1960 and 1970s, and 1990s. These worries are usually fired up by 4 main reasons(T) sudden inflation in food prices; (z) environmental stresses, such as urban congestion, ba

7.9. When a Scientist Whistleblows Pesticides - The Monsanto Papers

Jul 17 2023 35 mins

In May 2019, the husband and wife Alva and Alberta Pilliod won a federal court case against Monsanto. Both of them had developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. This cancer causes white blood cells called lymphocytes to grow abnormally throughout the body. The farmers worked decades with the herbicide, which Monsanto claimed is safe to use. In 2015, the International Agency for Research

7.7. GMO-Activists ✊ The Biggest Marketing Mistake - Seeds of Science

Jun 21 2023 25 mins

In early 2012 scientists at Rothamsted Research in England started an airfield trial of genetically modified wheat ( the first in the UK for many years ). THe research was publicly funded by a plant science centre based in the south of England. The genetically engineered wheat was sown behind a high fence and protected by 24-hour security. You will find out why all this security wa

7.6. Understanding the most used Pesticide - More than Glyphosate 🌿

Jun 06 2023 43 mins

"The World According to Monsanto - Pollution, Corruption and the Control of our food supply" - what a book title. As an agrifood historian, I enjoyed a whole seminar just on the history of pesticides. And let me tell you - it's shady and super interesting. !! Find the sources, key takeaways and links on our blog: https://redtogreen.ghost.io/what-monsanto-teaches-us-ab

7.5. Lobbying Strategies in US vs. Europe - Food Politics part II

May 30 2023 29 mins

So how are the politics of the food system rigged? This is the second part of our book talk on "Food Politics- How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health, " Find out how lobbying is different in the US vus Europe; you will learn about a bunch of concepts like soft and hard balling, the revolving door and commerciogenic malnutrition and Frank also shares an insi

7.4. Food Politics - How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health

May 23 2023 32 mins

Why nutrition guidelines have become too much about single nutrients, the struggle of the food pyramid and Frank’s experience with lobbyism. Avoid saturated fat intake, increase your potassium intake, and Avoid transfats. this Eating more fruits and veggies and less animal products and processed food is better for human health AND the environment. This episode discusses the foo

7.2. Blind Spots of Food Tech 🔍 Distribution and Responsibility - Part II of Stuffed and Starved

May 02 2023 33 mins

This is the second part of our discussion on the book "Stuffed and Starved - the hidden battle for our world's food system." We look at the price development at the supply chain, addressing the lack of transparency and how corporates are incentivized to process foods for higher profit. We discuss corporate and consumer responsibility. And talk about whether malnourish

7.1. Stuffed and Starved 🍔 Understanding Inequality in our Food System

Apr 25 2023 28 mins

Welcome to our season called "Book Talks." In the first two episodes, we will cover the book "Stuffed and Starved - the hidden battle for our world's food system." The author Raj Patel is a British Indian. Academic journalist and activist. He holds a Ph.D. in development and sociology from Cornell University. In this book, he focuses a lot on the inequality