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June 2025

What Regenerative Beef Gets Wrong (and Alternative Proteins Might Get Right)
An unflinching look at food’s most sacred ideas—with Michael Grunwald.
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Nil Zacharias
Between the Bleeding Burger and the Bean Patty: The Case for the Middle
How the third wave of plant-based is finding power in the space between mimicry and mediocrity
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Nil Zacharias
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Rethinking the Alt-Protein Playbook in a Post-Agriculture World
A conversation with Thomas Jonas, CEO of Nature’s Fynd, about building a food system beyond farms, Fy’s Yellowstone origins, and how they quietly stayed…
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Nil Zacharias

May 2025

Should the Future of Food Stop Imitating the Past?
Alternative proteins are at a crossroads: keep mimicking meat, or build something entirely new.
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Nil Zacharias
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Ethan Brown's Fight to Reclaim the Beyond Meat Story
How the most scrutinized brand in plant-based food is sharpening its mission, rebuilding trust, and staying focused on the long game, even as the…
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Nil Zacharias
How One Quiet Default Changed 2 Million Meals
Katie Cantrell and Greener by Default are using behavioral science to reprogram what we eat, without taking away choice.
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Nil Zacharias
Too Early to Swim: The Rise, Stall, and Future of Alternative Seafood
A look at how early plant-based seafood brands struggled to scale, whether cultivated startups can succeed where others sank, and what it will take for…
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Nil Zacharias
What If We Designed Food Systems for Abundance?
A thought experiment for a future worth building
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Nil Zacharias
Food Systems Don't Disrupt, They Evolve.
What the Fall and Rebuild of Alt-Protein Reveals About Food Innovation, According to Dan Altschuler
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Nil Zacharias

April 2025

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