Disrupting the Commercial Chicken Industry with Christie Lagally, Founder and CEO of Rebellyous Foods E131

WARNING! ~ Red Pill Ahead~

The majority of our food supply is produced within an industrial ecosystem.  Industrial animal agriculture produces nearly $108 billion lbs. of animal meat annually. Chicken meat contributes $50 billion lbs. - nearly half of all the meat produced. In order to achieve this volume, chicken brands use contract chicken farmers and meat processors to raise and harvest millions and millions of chickens per year.  Within the industrial chicken ecosystem, there are human health issues, water and air pollution, and the living conditions for the chickens are disturbing on some farms.

Christie shares her origin story and how she blended her engineering background with her life's passion as an advocate into a single, laser-focused career to make plant-based chicken processing at scale to provide chicken processors a viable, alternative business opportunity. 

• Origin story
• Brand mission
• Trends
• The trouble with chicken
• A light at the end of the tunnel
• Mercy for Animals ~ Transfarmation, the non-profit helping farmers leave chicken harvesting for hemp and mushroom farming.  https://thetransfarmationproject.org/

Connect with Christie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christie-lagally-875b9a4/

Rebellyous Foods: https://rebellyous.com/

Seattle Food Tech ( the parent company ) - https://www.facebook.com/SeattleFoodTech/

• Origin Story
• Mission forward
• The extractive food system
• Regenerative farms
• It started with sugar
• Nutrient density VS quantity
• People, Plants, Profits 

About your Host Tony Moore and the Winning at Work podcast:

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• Episode 131 is sponsored by: Timpl Search - National Food and Beverage headhunters for sales, marketing, innovation, and operations. https://www.timplsearch.com/
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