Ep. 160: Jennifer Stojkovic - The Future of Food is Female
PLANTSTRONG Podcast
Rip Esselstyn
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
You know how my Mom and Sister just released their new book, Be a Plant-Based Woman Warrior? Well, Jennifer Stojkovic is one of those warriors.
In 2020, she founded Vegan Women Summit (VWS), a global media and events platform focused on empowering women to build a kinder, more sustainable world. She also recently released the fabulous book, The Future of Food is Female, highlighting fifteen female leaders, innovators, and changemakers in the plant-based food space.
It is rare to find someone as passionate and driven as Jenny is to elevate, showcase, and promote women working in food tech. As she writes, “Food system reform is the greatest challenge facing humanity today - and women are leading the charge and changing how we approach food.”
Today, Jenny shares her unconventional route from Canada to Silicon Valley, and we highlight several of the changemakers in her book, along with the many projects she leads - including the Vegan Women’s Summit - her flagship event that returns in 2023 with a three-day event in New York City.
There is no doubt that the work she is doing today will provide a roadmap for future generations on how we approach food.
More About The Future of Food is Female
With exclusive interviews and original insights, The Future of Food is Female features a collection of cross-cultural stories from fifteen CEOs, venture capitalists, scientists, and trailblazers who are reinventing our food system and saving our planet.
From plant-based to cell-based innovation, artificial intelligence, and policymaking, women are leading this impactful industry and changing how we approach food.
This book shares their stories of advocacy within food tech and empowers future generations to learn, innovate, and change the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Here is a fun email that I received last week. Rep, your plan's strong pizzas have helped my family |
| 0:06.2 | of five get excited about healthy eating. Every Friday night we bake all five pizza crusts from your |
| 0:13.9 | kit and each member of the family gets to then build their own. We take turns baking them and then |
| 0:20.8 | serve up one monster pizza buffet. Sometimes we compete on who makes the best pizza while watching a |
| 0:28.4 | movie or playing board games. The leftovers are our lunches the next day and our kids ages 9, 11, |
| 0:35.4 | and 12 all enjoy the freedom and creativity of the fun Friday meal. Thank you for making a product |
| 0:42.5 | that we can feel great about serving our kids and shipping them everywhere because our local stores |
| 0:49.3 | have very few plant-based options and for the cost of one specialty pizza from a local pizza place |
| 0:56.0 | we get to make five healthy versions. We can't thank you enough. Marcy from Lawrence, Kansas. |
| 1:03.9 | Well, Marcy, I love that plant-strong pizza kits are the centerpiece of your family's Friday nights |
| 1:10.0 | and I want you to know there's a lot of other families that roll the same way, including the Estlestons. |
| 1:16.9 | If you haven't already be sure to check out our ultimate pizza guide where we have collected some of |
| 1:22.4 | our favorite ingredient toppings to try at home, it is not so how many we have. And it sounds like |
| 1:31.6 | your family could publish a recipe guide for us as well. For anybody that's interested, please |
| 1:37.8 | send me a photo the next time your family sets up the ultimate plant-strong pizza buffet. I want to see |
| 1:44.2 | it email me at hello at plantstrong.com and for anyone who wants the guide, simply visit plantstrongfoods.com |
| 1:55.6 | How do we open up this conversation about changing the food system because as you know and you talk |
| 2:01.5 | to guests all the time about this, food is one of the few things that affects all of us. Absolutely, |
| 2:08.9 | everybody is affected by food. We all eat. There's almost 8 billion people in this planet and we |
| 2:13.9 | all eat and we need to make sure as we make the decisions for what the future of this planet is going |
| 2:20.2 | to eat that it's inclusive of everyone or we're going to fail. We absolutely will fail. |
| 2:26.8 | I'm Rep. Elselston and welcome to the plantstrong podcast. The mission at plantstrong is to further |
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