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Jason Karp
Founder and CEO of HumanCo, a health-focused holding company, and co-founder of Hu Kitchen (acquired by Mondelēz); former hedge fund investor turned clean-food advocate.
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Sep 3, 2026
Episode 492: FLORIDA LEADS THE PACK, CELEBS DEMAND ANSWERS & BEHIND THE 'CLEAN FOOD' INDUSTRY
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Del BigtreeHOST
Is that... a relatively accurate generalization? Is it impossible to get to purely clean food because of the world we live in? Or what are the difficulties when you are trying to source for the companies that you are starting and working with?
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75:11Jason KarpGUEST
I think if you get to the level of Smithfield Foods, With the way the current agriculture works, I don't think it's possible.
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75:25Jason KarpGUEST
I think if you're getting to the level where you're doing $50 billion of revenue, I think the American food supply is too contaminated.
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75:37Jason KarpGUEST
I think when you're in smaller scale, which by the way, smaller scale is still a gigantic business, right? Like a billion, two billion, three billion kind of revenue levels.
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Del BigtreeHOST
So bringing this all the way around, what would you recommend when we see a study like this, this avocado oil, what should a consumer, how should we take in that information? What would you like people to think about when we're looking at that?
Why America's Food System Is Making You Sick | Jason Karp
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3:29Jason KarpGUEST
And there were a bunch of these things that I just kept finding and, and eventually my brother-in-law, Jordan, started reading them with me.
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3:35Jason KarpGUEST
Uh, and he wasn't sick like I was, but he started noticing how much better he felt and how much better everything in his life got.
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3:41Jason KarpGUEST
And he said to me one day, he was in real estate at the time, I was, uh, managing a hedge fund, and he said to me, he said, "There needs to be the manifestation of all this stuff that we're doing as a restaurant.
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3:52Jason KarpGUEST
Like, we need somewhere to eat every day." And I was like, "Dude, I'm a professional investor.
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The Plastic Detox & Behind The Scenes Of Big Food | Jason Karp
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8:06Jason KarpGUEST
And, and there's actually a lot of studies on this, and I'm not even involved in Hu anymore, so I'm not even, like, pitching my own thing.
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8:13Jason KarpGUEST
I'm just saying that chocolate's an amazing, like, superfood if you do it right.
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8:17Jason KarpGUEST
The story of how my fa- um, my family and I came up with Hu, Hu stands for human.
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People vs. Poison: MAHA Supreme Court Rally Against Pesticide Immunity | Full Media Hub
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15:42Tony LyonsHOST
Thank you so much for everything you've been creating to give people the option to have healthier foods, and welcome.
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15:58Jason KarpGUEST
Um, and I took a, a very different approach, uh, to the, to the speeches, which I felt like was important.
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71:41speaker_1SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
[phone ringing] It's reaching Congress, and that energy, these chain reactions are working.

