Rachel Laudan

I’ve just been putting the finishing touches on a keynote that I’ll be giving for a conference on the Taste of Home next week in Brussels. It’s a conference I’ve been looking forward to.  I have wanted to meet the Social and Cultural Studies of Food group led by Peter Scholliers for some time.  My [...]

Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven – corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye, and oats – account for 93 percent of all that humans eat, and every one of them was first cultivated by our Neolithic ancestors. Exactly the same is [...]

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 [...]