News: research
Podcast featuring FVRG Meat Paradox Study
Last year, members of the Food Values Research Group team published a wonderful article exploring the "Meat Paradox," a term coined to describe the apparent disconnection between people not wanting animals to suffer, yet killing them for food.
Seminar - February 2019
Appropriation and Reclamation of the Kakadu Plum
Nutritional primitivism in superfoods books and maca marketing: New research
Recent research by Adelaide Food Values Research Group's Dr Jessica Loyer and University of Edinbugh's Dr Christine Knight looks at the role of "nutritional primitivism" in selling "superfoods" such as Andean maca.
[Read more about Nutritional primitivism in superfoods books and maca marketing: New research]
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 - 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
The Conversation article
It's Complicated: Australia's Relationship with Eating Meat
