Thank you to all those who attended our live webinar, State of the Plant-Based Union: Elysabeth Alfano Recaps 2020 and Shares Trends for 2021. It was quite the information-packed presentation and extensive Q+A that took us 10 minutes over our scheduled time. For the retail and foodservice buyers in our audience, along with the manufacturers, investors and…
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Think Outside the Lunchbox with Shape Up Us
by Jyl Steinback Moving the global diet toward a healthy plant-based regimen is best done with an aim toward young children and through our school system. That’s the reason Shape Up Us has developed a plant-based curriculum, designed to fight America’s toughest health problems: childhood obesity, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes. Did you know that: 16%…
Education for Surviving and Preventing Pandemics
by Lorena Mucke In late 2019, the world learned about COVID-19, which quickly unraveled into one of the worst pandemics in human history. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and many other reputable health agencies around the world, this virus most likely originated in a live animal wet…
Vegan Wines are Making A Splash
by Priya Rao We’ve all heard that 2019 was the ‘year of the vegan’. We may soon be declaring an upcoming year to be the ‘year of vegan wines’. Consumer demand has been on the rise for vegan-friendly wines as more people become aware of the fact that wine in not inherently vegan. Yet, while…
CPG Marketing Lessons: Launching a Disruptive Brand
by Chris Mahoney I recently led the development and launch of a disruptive brand in the health and wellness food and beverage space for the first time in my career. It was a very rewarding experience. As I think about what made this launch so successful, I want to share the 5 most important lessons…
Effective Education in the Plant-Forward Movement
by Lorena Mucke When we look around we often see things we want to change. After all, it is very hard to ignore that the world is facing unprecedented challenges – the current pandemic, climate change, increasing rates of preventable diseases, environmental devastation, food insecurity, social injustice, and the unnecessary killing and abuse of non-human…
Wining and Dining for A New World
by Priya Rao Harvest Seminar Series: A Resource for the Recovery of the Restaurant & Hospitality Industry There is no doubt that hospitality has been one of the hardest hit industries across the world and will be one of the slowest to recover. While we wait for the public to feel more comfortable dining indoors,…
Live Recording: Dr. Scott Stoll Webinar
Plant Based World and The Plantrician Project collaborated on a LIVE session with Dr. Scott Stoll exploring the many benefits of plant-based nutrition. Watch the recording of the session below and be sure to register for the Virtual Plant-Based Nutrition Healthcare Conference taking place September 11-14.
LIVEKINDLY: Humane Society Offers Culinary Education to Make Cafeterias More Plant-Based
The Humane Society of the United States has begun a program to train chef’s to incorporate more plant-based options into cafeterias. LiveKindly reports: A new vegan chef training program is paving the way for more plant-based options in cafeterias across the U.S. Led by the Humane Society of the United States’ (HSUS) Senior Director of…
ONE GREEN PLANET: Plant-Based Culinary Education; Queen’s University Teams with Forward Food
One Green Planet reports that Queen’s University in Ontario is adding plant-based education to their culinary program. On February 20 and 21, the first two days of the university’s reading week, a break for students to catch up on work and study, chefs at Queen’s University met with Wanda White, the executive chef of Forward Food, to…