FoodTech Landscape
Brad Jakeman & Rini Greenfield, Co-Founders & Managing Partners, Rethink Food Excerpt from the June 2022 Newsletter We continue to see an acceleration of the disruption and reinvention of the entire global food system. Led by disruptive founders, enabled by advanced digital technology, the food system is evolving to be more sustainable, nutritious and accessible at scale. […]
Brightseed
Planet FWD
Digital Agriculture for a Sustainable Future
The practice of harvesting the land to feed communities is as old as civilization. As long as people need to eat, there will be a market to exchange food and the ingredients that literally give us the sustenance of life. Yet until very recently, the agriculture industry has escaped the interest of non-conventional investors: despite […]
Motif FoodWorks
Rethink Food: How New Technology Is Making Plant-Based Foods Taste And Look Better by John Cumbers
How New Technology Is Making Plant-Based Foods Taste And Look Better by John Cumbers Plant-based foods are a more sustainable and environmentally friendly option compared to animal products that require significant energy, land, and water to grow. However, the taste, texture, and appearance of many plant-based foods need improvement to gain greater acceptance from consumers. […]
Rethink Food: Climate Change Is Making Big Problems Bigger
New data compiled by the E.P.A. shows how global warming is making life harder for Americans in myriad ways that threaten their health, safety and homes.
Territory Foods
Rethink Food: Gro Intelligence, Accounting for Climate Change
Menker’s current big concern—“I have new nightmares now”—is rising food inflationas countries including Russia, Ukraine, Argentina and Indonesia raise taxes or limit exports on products like wheat, palm oil and corn to protect domestic supplies. Still, she is fundamentally hopeful. “If you think about so many of the world’s challenges today, it’s about this tension between ecological preservation and economic growth,” she says. “That tension doesn’t need to be there, and I’m hoping that one of the things that we do is find a way to reconcile that.”
Rethink Food: Opinion | Let’s Launch a Moonshot for Meatless Meat
I’m a vegan, but I’m also a realist. There’s no chance humanity is going to give up meat, en masse, anytime soon. That said, we can’t just wish away the risks of industrial animal agriculture. If we don’t end this system, soon, terrible things will happen to us and to the planet. Terrible things are already happening.