News: community attitudes
Seminar - May 2018
Throw Another Cricket on the Barbie? Australian Consumers’ Awareness and Acceptance of Insects as Food
Why do people keep backyard chooks? A new project in the Food Values Research Group
The Food Values Research Group are currently seeking participants in a new project which aims to understand why people keep chickens, and document related attitudes to, and associated values with having chickens as part of their lives in urban and peri-urban home settings.
Seminar - September 2017
Where are the Women? Intersectionality as a Tool to make Peace with my Inner Feminist when Talking about Meat, Cultural Difference and Animals/Australian Meat Consumers and their Concerns about Sheep and Beef Cattle Transportation and Slaughter
Does Nutrition Science (Mis)Inform Our Diets?
We are constantly receiving information on nutrition and food from scientists, government, media, marketers, and our friends and family. But still many of us make poor dietary decisions and fall for diet trends like Paleo, gluten free or superfoods. Does this onslaught of nutrition information (mis)inform our dietary practices?
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Animal Welfare and "Food Citizenship"
Food Values Research Group convener Professor Rachel Ankeny recently presented a keynote address on animal welfare and consumer attitudes at the Animal Intersections conference (3-5 July) at the University of Adelaide.
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
The Conversation article
Perceptions of Genetically Modified Food are Informed by More than Just Science
