# 430 Lara Espirito Santo - Source the cream, not the butter: fixing food waste through regen sourcing

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Podcast: [Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food](https://stenobird.com/podcast/investing-in-regenerative-agriculture-and-food-327782)
Published: 2026-06-30T15:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/lara-espirito-santo
Audio file: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1154870/episodes/19401390-430-lara-espirito-santo-source-the-cream-not-the-butter-fixing-food-waste-through-regen-sourcing.mp3
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Duration seconds: 5226

## Resource

Lara Espírito Santo grew up shuttling between Rio de Janeiro and her father’s industrial farms in Paraguay and Brazil, traded a planned career in politics and international development for a kitchen job at Silo in London, and went on to co-found SEM, the zero-food-waste restaurant in Lisbon she ran with her partner George McLeod until closing it ten days before this conversation (not for financial reasons, but to figure out what comes next). Source the cream instead of buying butter, and one ...

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