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Emma Ignaszewski

@emmaiggie.bsky.social
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AVP of corporate engagement at the Good Food Institute, working to accelerate alternative protein innovation. Writer, designer, adventurer, ultimate frisbee player. Views are my own.

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Emma Ignaszewski @emmaiggie.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Have a background in finance or VC and want to drive progress towards the world’s climate, global health, food security, and biodiversity goals? Apply to be our *Investor Engagement Manager* at @gfi.org! 💰 Salary: $106,000–$111,000 🌎 Remote (U.S.) job-boards.greenhouse.io/thegoodfoodi...
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Investor Engagement Manager
Remote (United States)
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Emma Ignaszewski @emmaiggie.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Job alert! We’re #hiring for a capital mobilization manager at @gfi.org. >> gfi.org/job/?gh_jid=... 💰 Salary: $106,000–$111,000 (commensurate with experience) 🌎 Location: Remote (U.S.-based), with occasional travel
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Job posting | The Good Food Institute
Explore career opportunities at GFI! We’re building a sustainable, secure, and just global food system with alternative proteins.
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The Good Food Institute @gfi.org · 10/12/2025
📄 New from @wbcsd.bsky.social: A roadmap to more protein-diverse food systems. Protein diversification—a shift toward a broader mix of proteins like plant-based, cultivated, and fermentation-derived meat—is a practical lever for boosting climate resilience, food security, and public health. 🧵
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Policies for Protein-Diverse Food Systems: A Business Perspective | WBCSD
Protein diversification – the intentional shift toward a broader, balanced mix of protein sources – is central to transforming food systems in response to sustainability and nutrition challenges. WBCS...
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Emma Ignaszewski @emmaiggie.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
🍽️ Almost 25% of consumers say the first time they tried plant-based meat was in foodservice. Check out @gfi.org’s new report on #plantbased food sales in foodservice & restaurants, including insights like...
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Plant-based foods in U.S. foodservice - The Good Food Institute
Explore the latest foodservice market data for plant-based proteins and dairy in the United States to uncover valuable insights and opportunities.
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Emma Ignaszewski @emmaiggie.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
It’s pretty clear that AI is making things difficult on both the hiring side and the job search side. Highly recommend this great piece from @annielowrey.bsky.social at @theatlantic.com summing up AI's impact. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Job Market Is Hell
Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.
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Emma Ignaszewski @emmaiggie.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
The way we produce protein is draining our resources, fueling health risks, and leaving us vulnerable. Here are 5 quick reasons why *protein diversification* isn’t a just a nice-to-have, but rather something we urgently need. 🧵
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Emma Ignaszewski @emmaiggie.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Food biomanufacturing, including alt proteins, offers advantages that align directly w/nat. security. Here are 7 benefits from my colleague Pat McAuley in Protein Production Technology, from a convo he had with @lizspecht.bsky.social on a @gfi.org webinar: shorturl.at/tvjBl
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Protein Production Technology International Q3 2025 Page 32
Welcome to the Q3 2025 edition of Protein Production Technology International, the world's only magazine dedicated entirely to scaling up and commercializing alternative proteins. And it's another…
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Emma Ignaszewski @emmaiggie.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
This is Dawn. Dawn is a pig living on an upstate NY farm. Meanwhile, people are trying meatballs made from her cells. This is what cultivated ingredients can offer, and it's an exciting—and tasty—new world. sf.gazetteer.co/some-pig
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Some pig
San Francisco companies are creating cell-cultivated meats. Is this the future of nutrition for a hungry planet, or another Impossible dream?
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Emma Ignaszewski @emmaiggie.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
What will beef production look like in 50 years? Well, alongside efforts to raise cattle more sustainably, there are serious *alternative protein* solutions on the table today—products that will get better and better on taste and affordability over the next decade. news.mongabay.com/2025/08/will...
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Will we still eat beef in 50 years?
When drought became a perennial visitor to the Beatty Canyon Ranch in Colorado in the late 1990s, Steve Wooten remembers telling his family, “We got to do something different.” Between 1997 and 2003, ...
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Emma Ignaszewski @emmaiggie.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Have you ever had a mycoprotein steak or chicken nugget made out of fungi? From companies like Quorn & Meati, these products are made via biomass fermentation. @gfi.org just released a report showing these products are starting to close the cost gap with conventional meat. gfi.org/resource/tec...
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Techno-economic insights on fermentation ingredients - The Good Food Institute
This report analyzes the competitiveness and key cost drivers of fermentation-derived ingredients, and identifies critical data gaps.
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The Good Food Institute @gfi.org · 24/06/2025
🚨 New report drop! Fermentation-derived ingredients promise functionality, flavor, and sustainability. But what are the economic realities behind this potential? We partnered with Hawkwood Biotech to find out. Here are the top takeaways from our latest analysis 👇
Driving down costs: Insights and recommendations from a meta-analysis of techno economic models of fermentation derived ingredients. GFI and Hawkwood logos. Yellow abstract rendering of fermentation tanks.
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Emma Ignaszewski @emmaiggie.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
At the Good Food Institute (@gfi.org), we’re looking for our next CEO! Build a new future of food while leading an impactful, engaged team that cares deeply about conserving land and water, reducing emissions, protecting public health, and more. Share and apply by May 28: gfi.org/careers/.
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Work at the Good Food Institute | GFI
Explore career opportunities at GFI! We’re building a sustainable, secure, and just global food system with alternative proteins.
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The Good Food Institute @gfi.org · 21/04/2025
As GFI's @emmaiggie.bsky.social explains, Avian flu outbreaks like the one we're experiencing now are not a fluke — they're a recurring problem that is unlikely to stop until we diversify our protein supply with new, animal-free methods of production. Learn more: www.fooddive.com/news/eggs-bi...
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Bird flu is a recurring risk. It’s time food companies planned for it.
As egg prices remain volatile, businesses should think about embracing alternatives to the protein, writes Emma Ignaszewski of the Good Food Institute.
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Emma Ignaszewski @emmaiggie.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
🧺 Let’s stop pulling all our eggs from one basket 🧺 Egg price volatility isn’t a fluke—it’s a pattern. As outbreaks continue to disrupt supply chains, food companies face a clear question: How will you future-proof your operations? www.fooddive.com/news/eggs-bi...
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Bird flu is a recurring risk. It’s time food companies planned for it.
As egg prices remain volatile, businesses should think about embracing alternatives to the protein, writes Emma Ignaszewski of the Good Food Institute.
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Emma Ignaszewski @emmaiggie.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Making alternative proteins taste better is a huge opportunity in the protein space. Check out this excellent coverage of NECTAR's initiative to test alternative protein products on taste and texture in The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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This food researcher is on a mission to make fake meat taste better. Will she succeed?
Caroline Cotto’s research group taste-tests meat alternatives so plant-based companies can attract new customers – and help the climate
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Emma Ignaszewski @emmaiggie.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Let consumers choose. apnews.com/article/nebr...
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Emma Ignaszewski @emmaiggie.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Curious about how policy career pathways can help support alt proteins into the future? Check out @goodfoodinst.bsky.social’s webinar next week. zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Emma Ignaszewski @emmaiggie.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Nebraska should not ban cultivated meat. Whether or not to buy cultivated products that have been greenlit by the FDA should 100% be up to consumers to decide. nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news...
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Senators hear proposal to ban sale of lab-grown meat in Nebraska
Sen. Barry DeKay, a rancher from Niobrara, introduced a bill at the request of Gov. Jim Pillen that would ban the manufacturing, sale and distribution of cultured protein products.
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Emma Ignaszewski @emmaiggie.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Remote job alert! Our incredible market insights team at @goodfoodinst.bsky.social is hiring for a *Senior Category Analyst*. Provide research, insights, and narratives to motivate and educate the food industry to prioritize alternative proteins. Job listing: gfi.org/job/?gh_jid=...
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Job posting | The Good Food Institute
Explore career opportunities at GFI! We’re building a sustainable, secure, and just global food system with alternative proteins.
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Emma Ignaszewski @emmaiggie.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
My colleague Pat McAuley of @goodfoodinst.bsky.social hit the nail on the head: The next wave of AP innovation/reformulation has to align w/ meeting consumer needs. Health drives consumer interest. Taste & price can be real barriers to folks. 👉 thegoodfoodinstitute.substack.com/p/how-to-bui...
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Emma Ignaszewski @emmaiggie.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
How can alternative protein companies diversify their funding sources in the current investment landscape? Great take from my colleague Daniel Gertner at @goodfoodinst.bsky.social 📖 thegoodfoodinstitute.substack.com/p/how-to-bui...
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The Good Food Institute @gfi.org · 22/01/2025
While some plant-based meat products may be considered ultra-processed foods, they are not necessarily unhealthy — especially compared to their animal-based counterparts. Learn more in this great piece by @carabuckley.bsky.social: nyti.ms/4avHicE
Plant-based burgers made by Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods on display at a grocery store.
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Emma Ignaszewski @emmaiggie.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Several European retailers have plant-based sales targets. Is that on the horizon for U.S. retailers? trellis.net/article/lidl...
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Lidl, European supermarket rivals commit to selling more plant-based food
Lidl International will increase the proportion of sales of plant-based foods by 20 percent by 2030, but its U.S. division will not adopt a national target
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Emma Ignaszewski @emmaiggie.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Honored to be quoted in this nuanced, well-researched article by @carabuckley.bsky.social in the climate section of @nytimes.com. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/c...
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Fake Meat Is Processed. What Does That Mean for Its Health Benefits. (Gift Article)
After being targeted by the meat industry, swept up in the culture wars and pummeled in sales, two plant based meat companies are reinventing themselves.
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Emma Ignaszewski @emmaiggie.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Almost half of Americans say beginning a new diet is part of their New Year's resolutions. Here's how that breaks down: 40% say they are going to attempt to eat fewer calories. 26% say they plan to go low-carb. 7% say they plan to go plant-based. www.pcrm.org/news/news-re...
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Nearly Half of U.S. Adults Resolve to Start a New Diet in 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nearly half of U.S. adults say starting a new diet is one of their New Year’s resolutions, according to a new Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine/Morning Consult survey.
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Emma Ignaszewski @emmaiggie.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Hot off the press, this piece is a great rundown of different tactics plant-based meat players can use to return to growth—all with the end goals to “reshape our food system, reduce climate impacts and lower health care costs by persuading people to eat less meat.” www.newhope.com/food-and-bev...
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Plant-based meat industry moves forward with R&D, merchandising, collaborations
The plant-based meat industry now is leaning into partnerships, merchandising and R&D to woo consumers.
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Emma Ignaszewski @emmaiggie.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Four food trends for alt protein leaders to watch in 2025: 1) Functional protein: Plant-based positioned protein powder sales are up 11% in the last year, according to SPINS.
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Emma Ignaszewski @emmaiggie.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
“Sometimes the best innovations are ones the consumer takes for granted & doesn’t even know are there.” Great insights on sustainability and B2B vs. B2C in this interview between @goodfoodinst.bsky.social’s Daniel Gertner & Monitor Deloitte’s Mathias Cousin. @deloitteinsights.bsky.social
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From sustainability to profitability: Behind the scenes of alt proteins
GFI's Daniel Gertner and Monitor Deloitte's Mathias Cousin reflect on recent trends in the alternative protein sector
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Emma Ignaszewski @emmaiggie.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Tasty, tasty, tasty. The #1 reason consumers don't buy more plant-based meat is it's not tasty enough. Over the years, new products have launched with that very goal. So where are PB meat products today on closing the taste gap w/ conventional meat? thegoodfoodinstitute.substack.com/p/minding-th...
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Minding the taste gap
Exploring recent research on how plant-based meat stacks up to conventional meat on taste and sensory features
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Emma Ignaszewski @emmaiggie.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
3 key insights from a new report from @goodfoodinst.bsky.social: A comprehensive life cycle assessment of plant-based meat and conventional meat. gfi.org/resource/pla... 🧵
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Plant-based meat life cycle assessment for food system sustainability - The Good Food Institute
This life cycle assessment by GFI and EarthShift Global compares the environmental impacts of animal-based meat to plant-based meat made with different methods and ingredients.
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Elliot Swartz @elliotswartz.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I started an initial list of folks who track the development of the alternative protein industry or how it relates to environment, public health, or sociopolitical landscape. Share or request to be added! go.bsky.app/HiCyjqW
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Emma Ignaszewski @emmaiggie.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
You’ve seen lots of headlines about plant-based meat’s challenges in grocery stores of late, and @goodfoodinst.bsky.social recently published insights on U.S. household shopper insights for plant-based meat to dig into the current status. gfi.org/resource/us-...
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U.S. household shopper insights for plant-based meat - The Good Food Institute
Discover key insights on U.S. households buying plant-based meat. Explore data on demographics, purchase habits, motivations, barriers, and more.
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