Stories
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Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India
Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.
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Delusional recycling and the problem with plastic
Many of us are guilty of wishful thinking when it comes to our rubbish. Arianne Shahvisi exposes shaky recycling infrastructure and overseas dumping, arguing for an end to waste colonialism.
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Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs
The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.
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Maria McKinney on ‘Sire’
All my grandparents were farmers; I grew up in the countryside surrounded by farms and helped neighbours herd sheep and cattle into the field. My body of work called ‘Sire’ looks at the genomics of modern cattle breeding.
Catalogue
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Sustainable diets : how ecological nutrition can transform consumption and the food system / Pamela Mason and Tim Lang.
Mason, Pamela, 1969-Date: 2017- Books
European consumer day : "sustainable consumption", Brussels, 15 March 2005 / European Economic and Social Committee.
Date: [2005]- Books
Drinking in Ireland : a review of trends in alcohol consumption, alcohol related problems, and policies towards alcohol / Brendan M. Walsh.
Walsh, Brendan M.Date: [1980], ©1980- Books
The making of the consumer : knowledge, power and identity in the modern world / edited by Frank Trentmann.
Date: 2006- Books
Food and globalization : consumption, markets and politics in the modern world / edited by Alexander Nützenadel and Frank Trentmann.
Date: 2008