Food
topic on 8 shows · 13 statements across 12 episodes
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13 statements about Food, every show
Calley Means: Europe spends 3x less on healthcare and 2x more on food per capita
“They spend three times less on average per capita on healthcare, but two times more per capita on food in Europe.”
Weeks: Food is the single largest component of landfills at about 21%
“Food is the single largest component of landfills. It's about 21%.”
Friedberg says plastic takeout containers leach chemical compounds into food
“And one of the more, more interesting points in the study was when you take food in takeout, in plastic takeout containers. Versus eating it in the restaurant. It's, like, so bad. The plastic, Takeout containers, even in just a few minutes, are leeching a ton …”
Hudack: Deliveroo fundamentally has only one product—food
“Deliveroo has one product really, which is food. And then everything else is kind of a feature or a way of delivering that.”
Weissman: Food art is unique because it is designed for immediate destruction
“The irony about food is that same level of attention to detail, care, passion, stress, practice craftsmanship goes into it, but it is made to be instantaneously destroyed and shit out literally.”
Suhasini Sampath: Food brands need 60%+ gross margins to sustain D2C
“A 30 to 40% gross margin product cannot sustain through a website. You need a 70% gross margin product. So just because everybody does D to C, Personal care can do D to C. Food cannot, because your gross margins has to be north of 60%, because you have the log…”
Suhasini Sampath: Valuing food brands on ARR is nonsense due to seasonality
“Aur ye ARR sab kuch is just bakwaas, like, people don't value you on your annual run rate. There is a buying cycle for the consumer for food, like for juices, it's April, May, June, when it's summer. You have to take annual, I mean, the full years, last year's…”
Food is the single largest source of material in landfills
“And just to give you some aspects, food is the single largest source of everything that's in a landfill.”
Food persists longer than other cultural traditions during immigrant assimilation
“When you move to a new country, you lose a lot of stuff, so you might change your name, and you might change the way you dress, and you might change the way you talk, because you have to learn a new language, but I think food is that one thing that sticks with…”
Lim: Dietary choices can impact health as much as pharmaceutical drugs
“We eat three, sometimes more meals a day, so the foods that we eat can be as impactful to our health as the drugs that we take.”
Nielsen: Everything in the world will eventually be genetically engineered
“Everything in our world is going to be genetically engineered, and I mean everything. Our food, our therapeutics, our materials, our manufacturing infrastructure, our consumer goods.”
Humanity needs 70% more food and 55% more water within 30 years
“We're gonna add a lot more people to this planet in the next 30 years. And if we continue to do things using the systems that humans have evolved, we're gonna need 70% more food, and we're gonna need 55% more fresh water.”