Handheld gadget to provide rapid food quality testing
A microbiological detection device will help speed up the measurement of contamination in raw meat, thus minimising costs and food waste.
Dec 07, 2018
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Plant-based proteins for meat lovers
In canteens and supermarkets, plant-based substitute products for chicken escalopes and beef steaks have become standard fare. Together with colleagues from TU Berlin, researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) ...
Politicians need to be braver about the biggest issues – like our consumption of meat
Scientists, environmentalists and animal rights activists have said it for many years. Now conclusive analysis has confirmed their argument.
Yes, eating meat affects the environment, but cows are not killing the climate
As the scale and impacts of climate change become increasingly alarming, meat is a popular target for action. Advocates urge the public to eat less meat to save the environment. Some activists have called for taxing meat ...
Moving 'clean meat' from lab to table
"Clean meat," or meat produced from cultured animal cells, promises enormous benefits for animal welfare and the environment. But to deliver on this promise, clean meat start-ups face many challenges, both technical and in ...
World must slash meat consumption to save climate: study
The world must drastically reduce its meat consumption in order to avoid devastating climate change, scientists said Wednesday in the most thorough study so far on how what we eat affects the environment.
Wild chimpanzees share food with their friends
Sharing meat after hunting and exchanging other valued food items is considered key in the evolution of cooperation in human societies. One prominent idea is that humans share valuable foods to gain future favors, such that ...
Japan to revise northern Pacific sei whaling program
Japanese fisheries officials said Thursday they will revise one of the country's two main research whaling programs after an international organization said selling meat from killed sei whales violates a convention protecting ...
Meat-free diets could cut our 'water footprint' in half, say scientists
Three thousand litres of water – that is the amount needed to produce the food each British person eats every day. This is according to a new study into the "water footprint" of diets in Western Europe, conducted by the ...
The myth of a vegetarian India
India has a reputation as a vegetarian nation, and Indians certainly consume far less meat than the global average. But the view of India as a predominantly vegetarian nation may not be quite accurate.
