Alex Crisp is the host of the Future of Foods Interviews podcast.
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Zoonotic diseases linked to factory farming raise pandemic risks, but food tech innovations offer a safer alternative.
Alex Crisp is a freelance journalist focusing on environment, animal welfare, and new technology. He has a background in law, journalism, and teaching. He is host of the Future of Foods Interviews podcast, through which he speaks with global leaders in cellular agriculture, precision fermentation, plant-based development, and sustainable food production and policy.
With a background in law and communications, and a curiosity for science and ethics, Crisp is a trusted voice in the alt protein space. His interviews provide valuable insights into the motivations, breakthroughs, and challenges that are shaping the future of food production and consumption. His approach is solutions-focused, bringing clarity to complex issues like regulation, scalability, and consumer trust.
Crisp’s work has appeared in a range of specialist publications, covering topics from cultivated meat to food security. His journalism is renowned for its balanced blend of critical insight and optimism. He advocates for technologies and systems that address the climate crisis, animal welfare, biodiversity, and nutrition. Based in the UK, Crisp is also a frequent moderator at food tech conferences and is sought for his ability to draw meaningful dialogue from both start-ups and established players in the space.External
A Secret About Eggs
Agriculture Dive | April | 2024
The poultry industry kills millions of male chicks each year because they don’t lay eggs. Here’s why and how we should end this grisly practice as some European countries already have.
Vegconomist | April | 2021
In this opinion piece, Crisp contemplates whether cultivated meat could trigger a new level of human development.
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Interview | April | 2025
This interview features Eric Schulze, who discusses his diverse career path from working at the FDA to joining Upside Foods and founding his new venture, Good Human.
Interview | February | 2025
In this episode of Future of Foods, Alex talks to Andy Shovel, the co-founder of THIS, the plant-based brand that made meat alternatives so realistic you needed reminding that it wasn’t the real thing. The “THIS isn't...” range were responsible for making plant based foods more mainstream. THIS is one of the most recognised plant based meat companies and a big success. That done Andy is moving onto new things.
Interview | June | 2024
CEO of Onego Bio Maija Itkonen talks to Alex Crisp from Future of Foods Interviews. Onego are a BioTech food company making egg proteins without chickens. The commercial demand for egg proteins account for a third of all eggs and demand is going up.
The cruelty experienced by egg producing chickens is no mystery to us and so Onego have provided a real solution to this problem.
Food manufacturers agree that getting egg proteins from tortured chickens is just not sustainable anymore. Onego wants to take the burden away from.jpeg)
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