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Twenty years ago, a Texas court decided Winfrey hadn’t defamed the state’s cattle industry. At the time, local media struggled to explain the science at stake in the case.
A tax on beef isn’t likely to achieve the intended outcome of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Instead, it could create a spate of unintended consequences.
Taxing a food product like meat, which has been entrenched in our culture for so long, is silly. We should let the market evolve and allow consumers to make their own choices.
Gym-goers are going crazy for these products. It’s time for a reality check.
As much as one-third of animal species in the tropics could be eradicated if their habitats continue to be converted for monoculture farming. We can all do something to make a difference.
Vigilante Hindu groups in India have lynched several people for eating beef. A scholar traces the history of beef-eating in ancient India.
Eat less meat, save the world
A new SBS doco will spark more questions about if and how we should eat meat.
Australia is not mustering the exports of beef it should under the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement, a new report finds.
There has been a drastic reduction in the fat content of red meat in the last 40 years. South African red meat can now be classified as lean.
Attacks on Muslims for eating beef have raised tensions in India.
Taking a lyrical swing at another rapper is part and parcel of the genre. So why the profound backlash when Meek Mill accused Drake of not writing his own lyrics?
Gina Rinehart’s purchase of the Fossil Downs cattle station comes as beef prices are headed for new highs.
Restriction on import quotas is part of Indonesian government’s policy to reach beef self-sufficiency.
Indonesia’s shock decision to cut imports of Australian beef signals two things: Indonesia’s desire to focus on domestic cattle farming, and Australia’s lack of alternative options for exporting its own herd.
Australia’s cattle industry is keen to begin live exports to the United States. But America is very different to existing live export markets such as Indonesia, making the move much more ethically fraught.
Ten years on from the Australia-US Free Trade Agreement, Australia is entering another round of negotiations towards the new and controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership. In this Free Trade Scorecard series…
It’s perhaps fitting that mining magnate Andrew Forrest is in the vanguard of a move to position Australia as a major food supplier to China. Fitting, because if the plan is to work, Australian agriculture…
While Brazil’s footballers have failed spectacularly to live up to expectations, there are other areas where the country is quietly exceeding them. Perhaps surprisingly, Brazil’s rapidly improving animal…
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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