Next Bite 2025: Canada’s Bold Bet on the Future of Food
Canada is making big moves in food system transformation and Europe is watching. With major public investment, fast-growing innovation hubs, and a national push toward regenerative agriculture, Canada is moving from strategy to action.
In this first episode of the Next Bite 2025 series, we’re joined by Ron Sauvé, Corporate Financing and Senior Accounts Director at Farm Credit Canada; Kyle Hoyda, Business Development Manager at Calgary Economic Development; and Chris Paterson, CEO of Agrisphere. Together, they share what’s driving momentum across Canada, how collaboration with Europe can create real-world impact, and why the most exciting work is only just beginning.
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ImmuGold: How Nutrition Could Redefine Healthy Aging
We’re living longer than ever before, but not always healthier. At AZTI Food Innovation Centre in northern Spain, Clara Talens and her team are asking a new question: how do we extend not just life, but quality of life? Their latest initiative, ImmuGold, aims to support healthy aging through smarter, science-driven nutrition.
Join the Food Fight to find out how machine learning, clinical trials, and food innovation are coming together to help older adults strengthen their immune systems, and why the future of health might start in the supermarket, not the pharmacy.
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Sarah Lake Redesigns Dinner: How Plant-Rich Diets Could Save the Planet
Meat is everywhere. On every plate, in every lunchbox, priced to move and hard to avoid.
In this episode of The Food Fight Podcast, host Matt Eastland sits down with Sarah Lake, CEO of Tilt Collective, to break down the climate case for plant-rich diets, and why what we grow matters just as much as how we grow it. From military spam rations to fast food menus, Sarah unpacks the system that made meat the default… and the movement working to change that.
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What If This Is the Moment: Systems, Strategy, and Showing Up
She was just named one of the top agri-food pioneers to watch, and she’s got a seat at every table that matters. EIT Food's Glindys Virginia Luciano joins The Food Fight Podcast to talk policy, power, and the future of food. What does real collaboration look like in the world we live in?
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Snack to the Future with Alberts
Fancy having a robot make your smoothie? Joining us is Glenn Mathijssen, who shares how Alberts is reinventing the vending machine with custom blends and real ingredients. No bottles, no waste, just good food made fresh, on demand.
Matt Eastland and Lucy Wallace present the Food Fight, a new series from EIT Food examining the biggest challenges facing the food system, and the innovations and entrepreneurs looking to solve them.
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