What is the Role of Biotech in an Ethical Food System? The New Food Order Podcast

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Do developments in cellular agriculture take ethics into account?In this week’s episode of New Food Order, I join Food+Tech Connect’s Danielle Gould and AgFunder’s Louisa-Burword Taylor to discuss this and more alongside:

  • Varun Deshpande, managing director of The Good Food Institute India
  • Didier Toubia, CEO of Aleph Farms, and
  • Errol Schweizer**, former VP of Grocery for Whole Foods and overall food industry leader

Together, we discuss:

  • 🧬 How to define biotech and precision fermented foods
  • 🧫 What questions we should be asking about cultivated meats and fermentation-based foods
  • 📣 How you communicate with transparency the complexities of bio-foods to eaters
  • 🔬 The need for open access scientific research in bio-foods development
  • 📈 Operating models for these technologies and foods in the global south
  • © The ethics of IP and corporate control of research and these technologies
  • 💲 Who is investing in biotech foods - from governments to investors to multinationals

Listen here: What is the Role of Biotech in an Ethical Food System?

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