The Founder of Impossible Foods Doesn’t Care About Food— He Just Wants To Stop Climate Change
Patrick Brown, founder of Impossible Foods, doesn’t care about food. He just wants to stop climate change.
Patrick Brown knows that the best way to halt global warming is to ditch meat from animals. A former Stanford Professor, he started Impossible Foods at age 60 and has helped grow it to a multi-billion dollar company and household name.
Impossible Foods is at the forefront of making healthier plant-based meat and dairy products with the mission of ending animal farming and improving the health of customers and the earth.
The idea for Impossible Foods came to Pat while he was on sabbatical from his position as professor of biochemistry at the Stanford University School of Medicine. In reflecting on how he could use his training and experience to make the largest positive impact on the world, he realized there was a way to make delicious, affordable meat and dairy products, directly from plants – that would be better for the environment and for consumers. In 2011, Pat chose to devote himself full time to Impossible Foods. And the rest is history.
In this episode, we talk about his journey to save the planet and human health, and how food is just the vessel for that mission.
Topics covered
Raising the red flag on the meat industry (which he refers to as the “slaughter cartel”)
The environmental impact of eating meat
His mission of ending animal agriculture by 2035
How environmental health is human health
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