#443 - Being Plant Based with BOL Foods Paul Brown

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Ben Coomber

Science, Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 18 July 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The plant-based movement is gaining traction, but why, what’s the key driver, health, sustainability, conscious living, ethics, or a bit of it all? You’ll have likely seen BOL Foods on the shelves of your supermarket, founder Paul Brown joins me on the show to discuss his journey with plant-based nutrition, the mission for BOL foods, the future of food, sustainable capitalism, and more.

Find BOL Foods in a supermarket near you.

1:45 An introduction to Paul & BOL foods

3:15 Is plant based the same as veganism?

5:27 What drove the decision to become a fully plant based company?

11:30 Does there need to be more education around how to make vegan food easy & exciting?

14:30 How Paul uses Bol for convenience & health

17:50 Sustainable capitalism - what BOL is doing to try and influence the changes we need to make as a society

22:15 The future of plastic packaging

29:50 Accepting that you can’t make everyone happy, all of the time.

35:05 Paul’s tips on how to include more vegetables in your diet

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, Benkur with Radio, how on earth are you doing?
0:03.8	Well, as you well know, especially since January, we've been talking an awful lot about
0:09.3	plant-based nutrition, generally getting more fruits and vegetables in the mix, but also what is happening in the world of nutrition?
0:16.5	Like where are we going? There's an awful lot of opinion when it comes to nutrition these days.
0:21.3	There's people talking about being vegan. there's people talking about being vegan
0:23.6	there's people talking about being more plant-based there's still the kind of
0:28.2	vegetarian movement there kind of waving the flag and then there's almost like
0:31.8	the extreme of that and then there's people saying well actually we can in the
0:33.0	people saying well actually we can all live on me
0:36.0	and you know it is a massive massive mix up and today we're going to be delving in
0:41.0	to this topic even more the conversation around plant-based nutrition, why it's an
0:47.2	important thing to think about, but also the wider conversation.
0:50.5	Nutrition isn't just about us anymore it's bigger than that and you can see
0:55.4	some of these conversations it's happening so without further of due let's get my
1:00.4	guest on to the show. So with me today I have the founder and we will get
1:09.0	into his history because his history is very awesome the the founder of Bowl Foods, Paul Brown, Paul.
1:15.7	Hello, how you doing?
1:18.9	mate, I am awesome.
1:20.5	As we're recording this, obviously not many people can see this because they're listening by audio
1:25.6	you are in a small tropical jungle yes a small tropical jungle in Notting Hill.
1:33.0	So as a plant-based business, we like to surround ourselves with lots of plants in the office,
1:41.0	but I'm glad you think it's the Amazon I'm afraid it's not.
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