Rachel Laudan

No, says the Economist, talking about Brazilian (and by extension) many other traditional cuisines. Ready meals will become more popular: Brazilians still cook most meals from scratch, even though the country has some of the world’s biggest food-processing companies, which export their tins and sachets to America and Europe. Fine dining at home will largely [...]

Published figures suggest that, in Australia, producing wheat and other grains results in: at least 25 times more sentient animals being killed per kilogram of useable protein more environmental damage, and a great deal more animal cruelty than does farming red meat. How is this possible? Mike Archer, Professor of Evolution of Earth and Life [...]

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