The Role of Customers and Government in Addressing Food Waste and Climate Change

Today's guest is Philip Behn, CEO of Imperfect Foods. 

In today’s episode, we cover:

• What is Imperfect Foods and its mission
• Imperfect Foods’ achievements in terms of customers-served and food waste recovered
• The company’s origin story
• Philip’s journey in food and how he joined Imperfect Foods
• What he learned during his stints at McKinsey and Walmart
• Imperfect Foods’ value proposition
• The landscape of the food waste problem
• How the resources spent on food waste has compounding effects
• The artificial standards of produce “beauty” that lead to some food waste
• How Imperfect Foods’ mission is aligned with addressing climate change
• Why there’s controversy with Imperfect Foods’ business
• Imperfect Foods’ current and future portfolio of offerings
• The specific overlap between food waste and climate change
• The role of government in addressing climate change
• Philip’s perspective on carbon offsets

Links to topics discussed in this episode:

• Imperfect Foods: https://www.imperfectfoods.com/
• Food Recovery Network: https://www.foodrecoverynetwork.org/
• (Yale Climate Connection) “Food waste starts long before food gets to your plate”: https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2019/05/food-waste-has-crucial-climate-impacts/

Enjoyed this episode? Please leave us a review! Share feedback or suggest future topics and guests at info@mcj.vc.

Connect with MCJ:

• Cody Simms on LinkedIn
• Visit mcj.vc
• Subscribe to the MCJ Newsletter

*Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant