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Seminar - May 2016
Sustainability for Seals or Fishers?: Presenting an Assessment of the Socio-Economic Impact of Seal Populations, South Australia
Seminar - April 2016
Differing Scales of Fat: Troubling What We Think We Know About Obesity
Seminar - March 2016
Why 'Big Sugar' Survives: The Strange Case of Indonesia Since the 1930s
Seminar - February 2016
Nutritional Primitivism and Superfoods: Between Commodification and Critique/Media, Nostalgia and the New Food Industries
Prof Rachel Ankeny talks about public attitudes to GM in agriculture on ABC Rural
In a recent article and radio interview with ABC Rural, Prof Rachel Ankeny explained that the public does not necessarily oppose the science and technology of genetic modification (GM), but is concerned with its use in agriculture.
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Article by David Ellis
'Ethical' Shoppers Find Food Labelling Inadequate
What do food labels teach people about food ethics?
A new publication from the Food Values Research Group examines the idea of ethical food labels as pedagogy (or a way of teaching).
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ARC Discovery grant success for Prof Rachel Ankeny
Prof Rachel Ankeny was successful in the most recent ARC Discovery Project grant round for her project “Organisms and Us: How Living Things Help Us To Understand Our World” with Prof Michael Dietrich from Arizona State University and A/Prof Sabina Leonelli from the University of Exeter.
[Read more about ARC Discovery grant success for Prof Rachel Ankeny]
ACOLA report on Australia's Agricultural Future
Food Values Research Group convener Professor Rachel Ankeny recently contributed to the Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA) report Australia's Agricultural Future.
[Read more about ACOLA report on Australia's Agricultural Future]
