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Seminar - April 2017

Designer Babies, Human-Pig Chimeras, and Mosquitos: How Gene Editing is Being Made Public in Australia/Othering via Food Choice: Anti-Halal Sentiment in Contemporary Australia

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Seminar - March 2017

Selective Eating and (Dis)Trust in Food

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The Conversation article

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Perceptions of Genetically Modified Food are Informed by More than Just Science

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Seminar - November 2016

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Agricultural Trade, Policy Reforms, and Global Food Security

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The Conversation article

It's Complicated: Australia's Relationship with Eating Meat

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Food Values Research Group in Hobart

The increasing prominence of food politics and visibility of formerly ‘marginal’ food practices provided a focal point for the diversity of issues, from ethical consumption and alternative food networks to food culture in the digital age, addressed by speakers at the ‘Food Politics: From the Margins to the Mainstream’ conference in Hobart on 30 June – 1 July 2016.

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Seminar - October 2016

What if Ennis and Jack had Fished? Brokeback Mountain Revisited for Commensality, Companionship and Conviviality.

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Seminar - September 2016

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Creative City Madness: Food Trucks and Cultures of Entrepreneurialism

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Catalyst looks at CRISPR, with expert comment from Prof Rachel Ankeny

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On Tuesday the 30th of August, the ABC’s science program Catalyst ran a piece on gene editing, with a particular focus on one of the newest tools CRISPR-Cas9.

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Understanding Consumer Attitudes to the Use of Genetic Modification

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Speaking to delegates from industry, researchers, and investors at the Ag & Foodtech Symposium in Brisbane, Professor Rachel Ankeny explained that the future of genetic modification must include dialogue and debate with the public.

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