Future Food News Review #2: Impossible's $10bn IPO, Vegan Cheese, CRISPR Tomatoes
Welcome to the second edition of the Future Food News Review! This week's top headlines included: plant-based meat maker Impossible Foods' rumored $10bn IPO, a Japanese company's launch of a gene-edited tomato, an in-depth look at vegan cheese, the potential for solar panels to improve the productivity of farmland, a major restaurant tech acquisition, celebrities investing in bottled water and the romanticization of America's agriculture history.
Future Food · sonalie figueras, louisa burwood-taylor, sarah mock, ximena bustillo, alicia kennedy, megan poinski, joe fassler, kristen hawley, elaine watson, larissa zimberoff, danielle gould
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Show Notes
The journalists joining us this week were:
Joe Fassler - The Counter (https://thecounter.org/agrivoltaics-farmland-solar-panels-clean-energy-crops/)
Sarah Mock - freelance (https://sarah-k-mock.medium.com/no-your-great-grandfather-did-not-know-how-to-fix-our-food-system-83775d4f1852)
Larissa Zimberoff - Bloomberg and freelance (https://technicallyfood.substack.com/p/gene-editing-our-precious-tomato)
Sonalie Figueras - Green Queen Media (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-impossible-foods-m-a-exclusive-idUSKBN2BV2SF)
Alicia Kennedy - Eater and freelance (https://www.eater.com/22315684/vegan-cheese-history-ingredients-process-grocery-brands)
Kristen Hawley - Expedite (https://www.expedite.news/p/tock-to-squarespace-for-400-million)
Elaine Watson - Food NavigatorUSA (https://tinyurl.com/35sa4rv3)
Ximena Bustillo - POLITICO
Megan Poinski - Food Dive
Errol Schweizer - Forbes and TheCheckout Podcast