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Black soldier fly consumption requires food safety research
Research from the universities of Stellenbosch and Queensland says there is incomplete food safety information on black soldier fly larvae. To...
Overusing antibiotics in meat is bad for humans
The Financial Times reports that in the US, animals farmed for food consume antibiotics such as tetracyclines in amounts so...
The government must listen to the voices of food poverty
Jack Monroe writes in The Guardian that an online outcry that started on Tuesday shows no sign of going away. The...
UK food systems research bags £24 million in funding
The food system is centre stage in projects publicly funded to the tune of £24 million, launched at the end...
Berners-Lee carbon calculator for food choices published
The BBC has published a chart adding up the total greenhouse gas cost of foods in the UK’s main diet....
Cheap food is no longer a tenable economic model, academic tells Oxford Farming Conference
Farmers need to be rewarded for less but better production – and the cheap food business model re-designed, according to...
Mediterraneans ate Asian foods 3,700 years ago
New Scientist reports that people in the Mediterranean may have been sampling South Asian and East Asian cuisines for thousands...
Young people at risk as UK food insecurity rises
Food insecurity has spiked amongst 16-24 year olds, as latest figures from the Food Standards Agency also highlight a growing dependence...
Creating animal food from single-cell proteins
The BBC reports: "I've tasted it, and it's great. If I had to put a flavour on it, I'd say...
Home cooking identified as major factor in greenhouse gas emissions
Consumers have a significant impact on CO2 emissions through their choice of cooking methods, as identified by a new report...
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