Breaking the Divide: Depolarizing Food, Farming, and Innovation

Event description

Join GFI’s Elliot Swartz, Lead Scientist for Cultivated Meat, for an interactive discussion about how to move from division to dialogue. Organized by Generation Climate Europe’s Food Team, this online event will explore how polarization impacts sustainable food conversations and how we can foster more constructive, inclusive public discourse.

Elliot will join a diverse panel to share perspectives on navigating polarized food narratives, reducing misinformation, and creating space for shared values — especially when it comes to innovative solutions like cultivated meat. Together with other speakers, he’ll reflect on how alternative proteins can be positioned not as replacements, but as part of a broader toolkit alongside regenerative agriculture and other approaches to meet climate, nutrition, and food security goals.

The session will cover:

• How public perception, communication, and identity shape debates about food and farming
• The role of misinformation and how to counter it
• Bridging traditional and innovative solutions to build common ground
• How young people and emerging leaders can drive constructive, solutions-focused conversations

Whether you’re a student, farmer, activist, or simply curious about where food and farming are headed, this discussion will offer ideas and inspiration for creating a more open and connected dialogue about our shared food future.