Thought For Food Podcast

This week we talk with Emily Byrd, the Senior Communications Specialist at the Good Food Institute, a non-profit organization that is dedicated to changing the world through food. If you listened to episode 31 of the podcast with Liz Specht, Emily's colleague, then you probably know a thing or two about GFI. But basically, they help to support companies in the blossoming plant-based food tech scene with science, legal, and business expertise with a team of the best of the best - what I call the Avengers of the plant-based world. And Emily's job is communicating the trends, science, and news of this industry while dismantling the misconceptions of plant-based living. Emily's background is in journalism from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and she grew up witnessing firsthand the environmental destruction and animal suffering that comes from hog farming in that part of the world. This led her down a path of fascination with healthy living and reporting on the issues of food and health. She then