News: farm animal welfare
Guidance Memo on gene editing and animal welfare
Researchers from the Food Values Research Group write Guidance Memo on gene editing and farm animal welfare.
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Gene editing for animal welfare: Heather Bray speaks on ABC Radio National
In the latest episode of ABC Radio National program "Science Friction", Dr Heather Bray weighs in on the topic of gene editing using new CRISPR-CAS9 technology for livestock animal welfare.
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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
Rachel Ankeny talks free range eggs on Knowing Animals podcast
Prof. Rachel Ankeny recently joined the Knowing Animals podcast to discuss buying free range eggs.
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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 - May 2017
Mindless Meat Eating: The Role of Cognitive Dissonance and Negative Emotions in the Consumption of Animals
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
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.
Hey Melbourne! What do you think of farm animal welfare?
Rearchers from the Food Values Research Group are heading to Melbourne next week to conduct interviews and focus groups for the Australian Research Council Linkage Project "Getting to the Meat of the Matter: Social and Economic Issues in Animal Welfare in Australia's Livestock Industry".
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