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Mike Lee

Mike Lee

Food futurist & innovation strategist; Principal Futurist at The Future Market and author/designer of Mise: On the Future of Food.

Aug 24, 2026

5:22
If you were advising the CEO of a major food company and could reallocate 10% of their R&D and innovation budget tomorrow, where would you move that investment, and what would you stop funding?
5:38
I think I would fund, um...
5:41
I think I'd work harder trying to find the connections between flavor, nutrition, and sustainability.
5:50
I don't have to go over all the problems in the world environmentally.
5:53
You know, that, that's kind of a given.
5:55
However, I think my biggest critique of kind of how we market sustainable food is assuming people will hear a statistic and then change their behavior.
6:03
I know as scientists and rational people we all want that to happen.

6 MINS LATER

11:38
So what's the bigger second order effect that food leaders should be paying attention to?

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