You might start by asking your child what’s in and what’s out according to their new diet – and why they decided to go vegetarian in the first place.
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Plentiful meat substitutes might be making plant-based diets more popular.
Eating less meat was also linked with a lower risk of colorectal, breast, and prostate cancer.
Insect farming is growing in popularity as an alternative to traditional livestock and feed production. A scholar evaluates what that means in terms of trillions of insect lives.
Trump’s recent executive order to keep meat plants open is premised on a lie: that a meat shortage is a food shortage.
If pro-veganism campaigns are in bad taste, veganism has a lot to lose, as we all do. The market needs vegan activists who are rational and present their ideas thoughtfully, with the intent to educate.
There are clearly changes happening in meat consumption. But it’s not being fuelled by an increase in veganism and vegetarianism.
Victorian Britain laid the foundations for today’s overconsumptive meat industry. Might it also show us a way out?
Vegan diets can come with significant risks for babies if not planned and supplemented very carefully.
As societal habits change so too does language and metaphors.
The closure of a London pie shop raises questions regarding the relationship between food and identity.
Canadians still love their meat, but consumers under 35 are three times more likely to consider themselves vegetarians or vegans than consumers who are 49 or older.
Our obsession with gut health, diet and well-being is far from new: the Victorians had very similar concerns.
Offering food to deities in Hinduism has deep religious significance. And most Hindu deities are not served meat.
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Director, Agri-Food Analytics Lab, Professor in Food Distribution and Policy, Dalhousie University
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Program Director of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Accredited Practising Dietitian, University of South Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Kingston University
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Professor of Religion and Asian Studies, Elizabethtown College
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Professor of Law, William S. Richardson School of Law, Author of Skimmed: Breastfeeding, Race, and Injustice, University of Hawaii
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Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow, University of Birmingham
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Associate Professor, Food Economics, University of Guelph
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Professor, Dept of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Guelph
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Honorary Research Associate, Swansea University
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Senior Lecturer in Nutrition, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Senior Lecturer in Nutrition, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Associate Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture, University of Exeter
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Research Associate, University of Guelph
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Professor of Agribusiness, Oklahoma State University
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Associate Professor of Entomology, National Taiwan University
