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Taking the pledge – Meat as the new Mephistopheles?
Post-prohibition, is meat the new devil? My Grandpa, a strict Methodist, took the pledge to abstain from alcohol back in the 1940’s when the church was endorsing Prohibition via the Temperance movement...
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All Aboard the “Eat Less Meat” Bandwagon
One of the main criteria for publishing scientific research is that it should be novel, yet not a week goes by without yet another paper concluding that we have to reduce meat consumption in order to...
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Can We Please Have Calls for Moderating Meat Consumption… in Moderation?
Do we need to moderate meat consumption in order to feed the world in 2050? Given beef producers’ track record of ingenuity, it’s possible but not probable. A Twitter follower (Tweep? Twriend?...
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Meatless Mondays.. or More Veg Mondays?
I consider myself to be an omnivore. I love meat – the smell of grilling beef or lamb turns me into a human version of Scooby Doo drooling and begging for a Scooby snack, and I’ve been known to...
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Are We Increasing Resource Use and Taking Beef from the Mouths of Hungry...
Can we really afford to lose the sustainability advantages that productivity-enhancing tools provide? Beta agonists have been a hotly debated topic in the media recently, after it was suggested that...
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Beef is Killing the Planet…and Elvis is Riding a Rainbow-Belching Unicorn
My Twitter feed just exploded. Yet another study has been released claiming that if we all just gave up beef, the planet would be saved, Elvis would come back from the dead, and rainbow-belching...
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Vegetarians May Preach – But We’re Not All Members of the Choir
The suggestion that we should eat less meat in order to save the planet pops up with monotonous regularity in my twitter feed. Interestingly, those who make this claim are almost always vegetarian,...
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Would Being Vegan Really Solve Climate Change? Not if We Don’t Kill the Cows.
A friend of mine drew my attention to this NPR blogger, who makes the point that being “good” isn’t zero sum (a situation where what is gained by one side or cause, is lost by another). If you’re...
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A Christmas Wish – May All Your Cows Be Like Your Best Cow
I love conversations that leave my brain firing on a million cylinders and open my mind to new ideas. I was lucky enough to have three such discussions this past week, one at an organic research farm;...
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Is It Time We Stopped Shouting About The Dietary Guidelines?
The recent report by the advisory committee to the USDA dietary guidelines has certainly caused a media stir in the past week or so. There’s a lot of nutritional common sense in the report – eat more...
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Planes, Trains and Automobiles: Why Mass Food Transport is Eco-Friendly
Food transportation. It’s the curse of the modern world. Just think how much brighter and sunnier the planet would be if we all shopped locally, tootling along on our bicycles to pick up freshly-baked...
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Defending Conventional Beef in The Wall St Journal Today!
Shameless self-promotion, but very excited to have an essay published in The Wall St Journal today defending conventional beef production. Given my blog subtitle, I thought I should link to it! Would...
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The Paradox of the Roasted Vegetable Sandwich – Do We Eat What We Preach?
So here’s the question: who has been out to eat with friends, family or work colleagues, ordered what’s perceived as a virtuous (low-fat, high-fibre, gluten-free or vegetarian) meal in a restaurant,...
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Cutting Meat? Or Just Cutting Corners?
It is equally interesting, inevitable and lamentable to see that another study has come out claiming that the only way to reduce climate change is to cut meat consumption per person. Meat consumption...
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Seeing the Bigger Picture – Why One-Dimensional Panaceas Do Not Solve...
This week, another paper has been released claiming that we should change to a vegetarian diet in order to “…cut global food emissions by two thirds and save millions of lives“. As ever, media coverage...
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Where’s the Beef? Not in Danish Diets.
For those of us in the UK, mentioning Danish livestock production almost inevitably leads to thoughts of Danish bacon (be still my beating heart) – a considerable proportion of their 90% of domestic...
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The Future’s Bright; The Future’s…Meaty? A Response to Breakthrough’s Essay...
This week I was asked to respond to an excellent Breakthrough article on the environmental impacts of beef production. As ever, I hope the comments below provide food for thought (pardon the pun) and I...
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How Now, Old Cow? Do “Slaughter-Free” Dairy Farms Come at an Unsustainable Cost?
As consumers, we’re more like sheep than we’d like to admit – that is, if sheep were tempted to buy food based on “free from” marketing. Gluten-free, fat-free, lactose-free, dairy-free and GMO-free...
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The carbon emissions associated with a return flight to Sydney = 9.5 years of beef consumption per passenger. Surely we can only assume that banning air travel will be next on the Student Union Council...
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