
Green Queen in Conversation: Cultivated Meat Pioneers
Green Queen In Conversation is a podcast about the food and climate story hosted by Sonalie Figueiras, the founder and editor-in-chief of Green Queen Media. The show’s first season, Pioneers of Cultivated Meat, explores cultivated meat, a future food technology on a mission to produce animal protein sustainably. In each of the six episodes, Sonalie interviews the pioneers of the industry, asking the hard questions about one of the most exciting food + climate innovations of our time and sharing the personal story behind each founder’s journey.
All episodes(7)
- StandardSummaries onlyUma Valeti of Upside Foods - Green Queen in Conversation: Cultivated Meat Pioneers
Published Oct 17, 2023
In the sixth and final episode of Green Queen in Conversation - Cultivated Meat Pioneers, Sonalie Figueiras talks to Dr. Uma Valetti, founder & CEO of Upside Foods, based in California. During the recordings for this show, the US government granted the first regulatory approval for cultivated meat to be sold in the country to just 2 companies, one of which was Upside. In this very personal interview, Dr. Valeti talks about starting the first cultivated meat company in the world, his 7-year journ
- StandardSummaries onlyMark Post of Mosa Meat - Green Queen in Conversation: Cultivated Meat Pioneers
Published Oct 10, 2023
In the fifth episode of Green Queen in Conversation: Cultivated Meat Pioneers, Sonalie Figueiras talks to arguably the original pioneer of cultivated meat himself, Dr. Mark Post, Chief Scientific Officer and co-founder of Mosa Meat, based in the Netherlands. This interview was recorded on the 10th year anniversary of when Dr. Post and his team presented the first-ever cultivated meat beef burger to the world, an event that set the course for the industry and truly changed the future of food and
- StandardSummaries onlyGeorge Peppou of Vow - Green Queen in Conversation: Cultivated Meat Pioneers
Published Oct 3, 2023
In the fourth episode of Green Queen in Conversation: Cultivated Meat Pioneers, Sonalie Figueiras talks to George Peppou, the CEO of Australian startup Vow. Peppou is one of the most compelling leaders in the cultivated meat space today because his vision for the future of food is so unique. He talks about why Vow is choosing to cultivate exotic animals, how his team approaches branding and marketing (including that mammoth meatball unveil), why he's dedicated his life to this industry and wheth
- StandardSummaries onlySandhya Sriram of Shiok Meats - Green Queen in Conversation: Cultivated Meat Pioneers
Published Sep 27, 2023
In the third episode of Green Queen in Conversation: Cultivated Meat Pioneers, Sonalie Figueiras talks to Dr. Sandhya Sriram, co-founder and CEO of Singapore-based cultivated seafood company Shiok Meats. Sriram is a pioneer in the space who helped put Singapore on the cultivated meat map and a too-rare female voice of change. She talks about the challenges of scaling cultivated crustacean lines, why we need alternatives to serve the ever-growing demand for shrimps, crabs and lobster amidst the o
- StandardSummaries onlyDidier Toubia of Aleph Farms - Green Queen in Conversation: Cultivated Meat Pioneers
Published Sep 19, 2023
In the second episode of Green Queen in Conversation: Cultivated Meat Pioneers, Sonalie Figueiras talks to Didier Toubia, co-founder and CEO of Aleph Farms, a cultivated meat company based in Israel. Didier cuts a very unique figure in the space- the conversation was a real eye-opener about his background and how he started working with food and development agencies in Africa and how that informed his worldview about food systems, equity and food Justice, and how in turn that led to starting a c
- StandardSummaries onlyJosh Tetrick of GOOD Meat - Green Queen in Conversation: Cultivated Meat Pioneers
Published Sep 12, 2023
In the first episode of Green Queen in Conversation: Cultivated Meat Pioneers, Sonalie Figueiras talks to Josh Tetrick, the founder and CEO of Eat Just Inc and GOOD Meat, both based in California. Tetrick set himself a goal to be the first cultivated meat company in the world to gain commercial approval, and achieved it, in a very short amount of time, which changed the game for the entire industry. He talks about being the first cultivated meat company in the world to gain commercial approval a
- StandardSummaries onlyGreen Queen in Conversation: Cultivated Meat Pioneers - Trailer
Published Aug 28, 2023
About Green Queen in Conversation: Cultivated Meat Pioneers Green Queen In Conversation is a podcast about the food and climate story hosted by Sonalie Figueiras, the founder and editor-in-chief of Green Queen Media. The show's first season, Cultivated Meat Pioneers, explores cultivated meat, a future food technology on a mission to produce animal protein sustainably. In each of the six episodes, Sonalie interviews the pioneers of the industry, asking the hard questions about one of the most exc