Future Food News Review #3: Amazon's new private label food brand, Unabated meat consumption, SPACs for foodtech
Welcome to the third edition of the Future Food News Review, with foodtech, agtech and food systems' leading journalists. This week's headlines were: Amazon's new private label food brand Aplenty, US government climate policies for agriculture, a $40bn SPAC for Southeast Asia delivery startup Grab, Increased funding to plant-based startups is not cutting meat consumption, Food workers are still getting Covid-19, Restaurants break up with single-use plastic, Mushroom-sourced bacon raises $40m, Hazard pay and grocery store closures.
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Show Notes
The Future Food News Review is part of a collaboration between AgFunder and Food+Tech Connect to host meaningful conversations about the future of our food system on Clubhouse and other platforms.
The journalists joining this week are:
Ximena Bustillo - POLITICO (https://www.politico.com/newsletters/weekly-agriculture)
Sam Silverstein - Grocery Dive (https://www.grocerydive.com/news/amazon-unveils-aplenty-its-newest-private-label-food-brand/598223/)
Leah Douglas - FERN (https://www.motherjones.com/food/2021/04/a-year-later-conditions-for-many-food-workers-at-high-risk-of-covid-19-remain-the-same/)
Jenn Marston - The Spoon (https://thespoon.tech/restaurants-breakup-with-single-use-plastics-has-begun/)
Lela Nargi - The Counter (https://thecounter.org/funding-investment-plant-based-proteins-meat-consumption/)
Chloe Sorvino - Forbes (https://www.forbes.com/sites/chloesorvino/2021/04/15/maker-of-mushroom-sourced-bacon-raises-40-million-to-reach-grocers-at-scale/?sh=498070b472d1)
Louisa Burwood-Taylor - AFN (https://agfundernews.com/grab-confirms-record-breaking-40bn-spac-deal-archrival-gojek-nears-18bn-merger.html)
Errol Schweizer - Forbes/TheCheckOut (https://www.thecheckoutradio.com/podcast/episode42-ufcw)
Elaine Watson - Food NavigatorUSA
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