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18 April 2023

Feeding Tomorrow: The Future of Meat

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Future of Food Panel Event

Please join us for a free virtual panel discussion on the future of food hosted by Species Unite Executive Director Elizabeth Novogratz, featuring leaders from across the alternative protein industries to discuss the road to replacing animals from our food system.

When: April 18 2023 | 12pm - 1pm ET

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Topic Highlights:

Alternative proteins and what they mean for climate change, public health and animal welfare, protein produced via fermentation, cultivated meat and the recent FDA green-lights, scaling, health and safety, as well as a global perspective on these game changing innovations both in terms of regulation and public opinion.

Meet the Speakers:

Isha Datar

Isha Datar is the executive director of New Harvest, the nonprofit research institute that funds open, public cultured meat research. She also co-founded Muufri (now Perfect Day Foods), where they make milk without cows, and The EVERY Company, where they make eggs without chicken.

In 2015, Isha coined the term "cellular agriculture" — officially creating a category for agriculture products produced from cell cultures rather than whole plants or animals.

Shannon Falconer

Shannon Falconer is the CEO and co-founder of Because, Animals, a pet food company that is making cultured meat for our cats and dogs. Their first cultured meat product, Harmless Hunt Mouse Cookies for Cats, is made with real mouse meat that is grown in a lab.

Cats and dogs eat more than 25 percent of the meat consumed in the US; which also means that pet food is responsible for more than a quarter of the environmental impact caused by animal agriculture. Because, Animals is going to change all of that one product at a time.

Paul Shapiro

Paul Shapiro is the CEO of The Better Meat Co., the author of the national bestseller Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World, a four-time TEDx speaker, and the host of the Business for Good Podcast. In 2023, he was named Most Admired CEO by the Sacramento Business Journal.

Paul spent the first two-plus decades of his career in animal protection. First, he founded and ran the animal protection organization Animal Outlook, and then spent 13 years at the Humane Society of the United States.

Albert Tseng

Albert Tseng is co-founder of Dao Foods, an impact-oriented investment firm that invests in plant-based and alternative protein companies based in mainland China and focused on the Chinese market.

With rapidly rising incomes and increasing meat consumption in China, Dao Foods’ aim is to introduce alternative products into the China market to reduce the consumer demand for animal products which has had a growing negative climate, environmental, food safety and health impact.

Anne Palermo

Anne Palermo is the CEO and co-founder of Aqua Cultured Foods, a leading future- food startup in the alt-protein space. Anne is focused on using Aqua’s novel fermentation technology to bring to market nutritionally superior, hyper-realistic, whole cuts of seafood alternatives.

Anne started her career in banking at Morgan Stanley, after which she partnered at a hedge fund and then moved on to BMO Capital Markets. Her interest in health and wellness inspired her to go back to school to learn food science, food tech and culinary innovation.

Hosted by: Elizabeth Novogratz

Elizabeth Novogratz is the founder and president of Species Unite, a nonprofit media project to help people transition off of animal products. She was called at an early age to devote her life to elevating all animal life after witnessing the cruelty of animal agriculture in the US and abroad.

Species Unite brings the brightest people and best non-animal products together on one curated media platform. She hosts the Species Unite podcast, which uncovers the latest in “future food” (cultivated meat), vegan fashion, and plant-forward meals.