The Food Professor

Peter van Stolk, CEO at FoodX Technologies and Spud.com talks grocery eCommerce growth and selling Canadian technology to the word, exploring a Biden White House plus the Clearwater-Mi’kmaq First Nations deal

Episode Summary

Online shopping and grocery research: 4.2MM Canadians new to online shopping for food - any surprises? Seeing the Clearwater deal - explain who Clearwater is, their importance to Halifax lobster industry -  a handful of east coast Mi’kmaq First Nations big players in the Atlantic Canada fishery Early thoughts on the impact to our food industry on a Biden presidency in the U.S - good, bad neutral.... already have a negotiated trade deal....didn't hear much on the campaign trail ...U.S. might join the Trans Pacific Partnership...maybe even CETA? Protein burger wars - McDonald's McPlant, Pizza Hut ads meatless option, Beyond Meat Stock Gets Slaughtered as Earnings Miss Expectations in a Beyond Big Way...what's happening!!! Our very special guest: Peter van Stolk,  CEO at FoodX Technologies and Spud.com talks eCommerce grocery growth and exporting Canadian made grocery technology to the world.

Episode Notes

Welcome to the The Food Professor podcast episode 13, the Baker’s Dozen episode!  I’m Michael LeBlanc, and I’m Sylvain Charlebois!

Online shopping and grocery research: 4.2MM Canadians new to online shopping for food - any surprises?  Access the research here from the Dalhousie Agri-Foods Lab. 

Seeing the Clearwater deal - explain who Clearwater is, their importance to Halifax lobster industry -  a handful of east coast Mi’kmaq First Nations big players in the Atlantic Canada fishery also risks further inflaming deep divisions in the region’s lobster industry. https://financialpost.com/commodities/clearwater-seafoods-sold-in-1-billion-deal-that-will-see-mikmaq-communities-own-50-per-cent

Any early thoughts on the impact to our food industry on a Biden presidency in the U.S - good, bad neutral.... already have a negotiated trade deal....didn't hear much on the campaign trail ...U.S. might join the Trans Pacific Partnership...maybe even CETA?

Protein burger wars - McDonald's McPlant, Pizza Hut ads meatless option, Beyond Meat Stock Gets Slaughtered as Earnings Miss Expectations in a Beyond Big Way...what's happening!!!

Our very special guest: Peter van Stolk,  CEO at FoodX Technologies and Spud.com

An upstream battle for GMO Salmon: https://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/press-releases/6186/federal-court-declares-genetically-engineered-salmon-unlawful