Fork The System
Welcome to Fork The System — a podcast spotlighting the innovators, researchers, and advocacy leaders reimagining how we feed the world. Each episode will feature a professional working to build sustainable and ethical food systems.
New episodes monthly (every second Tuesday) with your host, Sherry Shu, a fourth-year student at Western University’s Ivey Business School.
Feedback on the episodes is always appreciated at https://bit.ly/forkthesystemfeedback.
Fork The System
Latest Episodes
Kirumira Julius on empathy-building and policy enforcement in the animal welfare movement
Our fourteenth guest is Kirumira Julius, the Co-Founder of the African Institute for Animal Welfare, a non-profit organization whose mission is to end animal exploitation across Uganda and Africa. Their initiatives focus on promoting humane far...
Tina Owens on regenerative agriculture and the rising risk of conventional farming systems
Our thirteenth guest is Tina Owens, the lead of the Resilience and Agriculture Lending and Insurance Coalition (RALIC) for the Transformational Investing in Food Systems (TIFS), an organization aiming to bridge capital markets with the strategi...
Kari Snorek on caring about shrimp and the surprising empathy of farmers
Our twelfth guest is Kari Snorek, the Director of Operations at Shrimp Welfare Project, a non-profit organization that guides the shrimp farming industry towards higher welfare practices for a more sustainable and ethical future. The Shrimp Wel...
Wasseem Emam on fish welfare and connecting animal, human, and environmental wellbeing
Our eleventh guest is Wasseem Emam, the Founder & Executive Director of Ethical Seafood Research, a non-profit organization focused on improving animal welfare in aquatic food systems globally. ESR focuses its work on fish farming condition...
Albert Tseng on the power of impact investing in building alt protein familiarity in China
Our tenth guest is Albert Tseng, the co-founder of Dao Foods, a venture capital firm that seeks to grow the alternative protein space in China. Dao Foods invests in promising Chinese start-ups, provides mentorship, and builds stakeholder ecosys...