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#68 - Bringing Regenerative Seafood Direct To Consumers & Lotus Foods Get Major Investment

#68 - Bringing Regenerative Seafood Direct To Consumers & Lotus Foods Get Major Investment

July 16, 2024

Weekly episodes, news, and insights from the world of regenerative CPG

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This Week’s Episode:

Highlights:

🌊 James’ lifelong love affair with the ocean
🐠 Why wild caught isn’t necessarily better
👉 The parallels between agriculture and aquaculture
🐟 How Seatopia is championing aquaculture 3.0
🎣 Why we can’t feed the world with just wild-caught seafood
🔥 Sourcing from integrated multi-trophic seafood farms
🙅 Why regenerative doesn’t drive dollars
🔬 Using testing and transparency to boost product claims
😯 Fish isn’t actually supposed to smell ‘fishy’
📈 Leveraging R&D for more whole-fish utilization

“We need to approach aquaculture in the same way that we're approaching land-based agriculture: that we are stewards of the land. Cattle farms done right are not growing cattle, what they're doing is they're growing the soil and they're growing the microbes and they're trying to create an environment that's attractive for all these different organisms from birds to badgers. We're doing that in aquaculture today in what we call integrated multi-trophic aquaculture or mixed species aquaculture.”

James Arthur Smith

Recap:

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ReGen Brand Events:

🔥 Join the ReGen Brands team at Newtopia Now in Denver, CO August 25th-28th.

👉 Newtopia Now is a new kind of B2B trade event where brands and buyers connect in new ways and are empowered to co-create the next era of purpose-led CPG and retail through a deeper level of engagement. From curated, elevated matchmaking to interactive content and networking, all to build meaningful connections like never before.

Credit: New Hope Network

🌾 Sustain-A-Grain and Merge Impact are hosting Kernza in Kansas: The Field Experience on July 18th and 19th in Salina, Kansas.

Credit: Kernza in Kansas

ReGen Brand News:

🚀 Lotus Foods announces transformative investment to accelerate the shift to a more regenerative food system

Lotus Foods, a leader in regenerative rice cultivation, received a $22.5 million investment from Grounded Capital to help scale its business, diversify its customer base, and deepen investments along its value chain.

Credit: Lotus Foods

🏃‍♂️ Quick Hits:

📈 Above Food (parent company of Farmer Direct Organic) has begun trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol “ABVE”.

💰 White Oak Pastures has been awarded a USDA Local Meat Capacity grant to help convert its poultry processing facility into a dual-use facility that can process lambs, goats, and hogs.

🛒 Recoup’s prebiotic sparkling drinks are now available at Erewhon.

🎉 Emiliana Organic Vineyards celebrates Coyam wine’s 20th anniversary.

🫒 SIMPLI’s extra virgin olive oil and olive oil blend are now available at all Whole Foods Market locations nationwide.

🥥 Harmless Harvest Sparkling Coconut Water is now available at Jewel Osco.

🥣 Gruff's Ancient Grain Grits are now available at Erewhon.