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Everyone loves a barbecue – here’s how to enjoy it while being mindful of our planet.
Through collector Jordan’s fetishistic interest in Asian women, Beef shows the troubling link between collecting artefacts and sexual control.
Beef gives permission to its feuding central characters and minority audience members to feel complex and nuanced emotions.
The brilliance of the new Netflix TV show, ‘Beef,’ which looks at loneliness and urban life, is threatened by the controversial history of one of its supporting actors, David Choe.
Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says he will end land clearance in Brazil’s Amazon region. But powerful forces profit from rainforest destruction.
Feeding insects instead of grain to animals is an inexpensive, sustainable way to increase the world food supply. An animal scientist explains what’s involved in developing insect feed for cattle.
Psychologists have described a ‘meat paradox’ in the minds of meat-eating animal lovers.
More than 100 world leaders have pledged to end the destruction of forests by 2030 as a way to slow climate change. That will require changing how the world produces four widely used commodities.
A food historian spent a month at the Library of Congress trying to answer the question of why we have historically been, and remain, so focused on dietary protein. Here is what she found.
A new study puts numbers to the health and environmental benefits – or impacts – of individual foods and shows how small changes can make a significant difference.
Forests provide an essential buffer between people and wildlife — and the viruses they carry. Global agriculture is destroying forests, harming biodiversity and may be putting human life at risk.
COVID-19 outbreaks have occurred at more than 100 US meatpacking plants. Geography, workforce demographics and economic concentration make it hard for workers to fight for better conditions.
A project to protect producers from food fraud by verifying and promoting the provenance of the region’s beef exports to China turned out to be a source of creative work in the region as well.
Modi and the political party he represents are adherents of Hindutva, an ideology. It is fundamentally different from the faith, Hinduism.
Looking after animals and saving the planet sounds like a good idea. But getting there is not as simple as a some people seem to imagine.
Integrating trees into farming systems can improve farming, help the environment, and boost animal welfare too.
Raising livestock has clear impacts on the environment, but contrary to what many critics say, it is not the biggest driver of climate change.
A big rise in armed attacks in the Sahel - and the intensity of the attacks in recent years - is now seen as a major source of concern.
Canadians still love their meat, but consumers under 35 are three times more likely to consider themselves vegetarians or vegans than consumers who are 49 or older.
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Professor of Trade Law and Taxation, Queensland University of Technology
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Adjunct Professor in Animal Welfare, Curtin University
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Director and Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute (UTS:ACRI), University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies, Texas State University
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Assistant Professor, Department of Global Studies; Director of Food Studies, University of Oregon
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Honorary Associate Professor; economics of patents, geographical indications and other "IP"; trade treaties, Australian National University
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Director, Agri-Food Analytics Lab, Professor in Food Distribution and Policy, Dalhousie University
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Researcher & Post-doc in Human Nutrition, University of Pretoria
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Nancy Roma Paech Chair in Range Science, University of Sydney
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Principal Research Fellow and Professor - food and nutrition security, international agricultural research, University of Sydney
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Research Fellow, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, University of Chicago
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Professor in Human Geography, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Exercise Physiology Across the Lifespan, Deakin University
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Reader in Food Policy, City St George's, University of London