While hunger and food insecurity are similar, it’s important to note the difference in the two before understanding its toll on a person’s physical and emotional health. Hunger is a physical sensation of discomfort resulting from the need to eat. Food insecurity refers to a lack of available financial resources for food. What’s more, inconsistent...
Filipinos love their meat. A traditional fiesta won’t be complete without the usual Filipino party fare such as the lechon (roasted pig) which is dipped in liver sauce, lumpia (fried spring rolls stuffed with ground pork), menudo (pork and liver stew in tomato sauce with sliced potatoes and carrots), steamed lapu-lapu (grouper fish) etc. Except...
When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) announced the details of her Green New Deal, its mention of the beef industry inspired some of the most ire from her critics. The policy suggests that our government should work with ranchers and farmers to reduce the agricultural sector’s greenhouse gas emissions, and a prematurely published FAQ page on her...
In August 2013, Mark Post, a professor of vascular biology at Maastricht University in the Netherlands unveiled to the world the first lab-grown burger. Mark Post had succeeded in untying the Gordian knot of using stem cell research to grow meat for consumption. Before then, the thought of lab-grown meat wasn’t much more than a...
I know a lot of smokers who started young. It was the experimenting and all the sneaking around that made it fun. There’s sexiness associated with it too – whether you see it dangling loosely on James Dean’s lips in Rebel Without a Cause or when a cigarette is being shared by a couple on...
As I have gotten more and more conscious of my health and what I eat, one of my biggest challenges has been how best to deal with my sugar intake. I like to taste sweet stuff (and no, I refuse to be called sweet-toothed). However, with the ever-increasing rates of diabetes and other sugar-related ailments,...
The agriculture industry, and human food output, will be increasingly affected by water scarcity in the coming years. There are many reasons why this is the case, and each one merits considerable public and civic discussion. Good news arrives in the form of “smart agriculture” — a family of technology dedicated, in part, to helping...
Going vegan sounds explanatory. Just swap cow’s milk for almond or coconut, ditch the meat and eggs, say no to cheese and crackers, and hello to chickpeas and tofu. But there’s a common oversight even the most dedicated vegans miss… contraception. When I first began researching vegan contraceptive methods, I was stunned to find most...
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Author: Sophie Medlin, Lecturer in Nutrition and Dietetics, King’s College London. Veganism, the plant-based diet which shuns meat and dairy, is having its time in the sun. Since 2008, there has been a 350% increase in the number of self-described vegans in the UK alone. Where...
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Authors: Amelia Cornish, PhD student, University of Sydney and Paul McGreevy, Professor of Animal Behaviour and Animal Welfare Science, University of Sydney. Australians clearly care about animal welfare: our research has found 92% shoppers in Sydney considered animal welfare to be important. However, when we look...
With increased awareness of the environmental impacts of animal agriculture and more conversations around animal welfare and the ethicality of eating animal flesh and animal products, it’s little wonder that vegan food, plant-based diets and cruelty-free living are becoming the norm. In this post, we’ve rounded up influential celebrities and other famous people who have embraced...
Abuja, Nigeria: Recently, I read an article on Forbes that stated that in 2017 alone, over five hundred million dollars was invested in the cannabis industry in the United States. Being a player (albeit smalltime) in the startup scene myself, I was not overly wowed by this sum. In reality, the investment was quite small...