Statistically, the food industry was producing enough calories for 10 billion people yet every six seconds, we lose forests the size of a football field. Seven people out of ten suffer from what they eat and eating too much kills three times more people than famine.
As someone with two decades working for some of the biggest names in the agriculture and food industry, Founder and CEO of WhatIF Foods Christoph Langwallner, has plenty to say about large-scale food manufacturing and the negative health impact it has on the consumer.
“The five of us, experienced scientists and executives, were creating food with the bottom line as the top priority. This meant adding artificial additives for more visual stimulation or adding a bit more flavour enhancers to make the food just a little bit more addicting. But they are absolutely rubbish in terms of nutrition. The ‘food’ we were producing wasn’t really food,” reveals the Austria-born, Singapore-based entrepreneur.
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