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Fairs, fires and the future of Smithfield

As meat trading in the area ends, Tom Bolton looks at the history of London’s Smithfield, which has been a place of healing and death, markets and mess for 900 years.

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Busting myths about turkey-baster babies

The popular idea of sex-free, turkey-baster-led conception has been around since the 1970s. Christine Ro goes beyond the utensils drawer to find out if it’s ever really happened.

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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.

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Eating their own kind

In his grisly history of cannibalism, zoologist Bill Schutt asks what drives an animal to feast on its own flesh and blood.

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  • Meat matters : meat and fat / [Meat and Livestock Commission].
  • Meat matters : meat and fat / [Meat and Livestock Commission].
  • Oxo : the new meat beverage / Liebig's Extract of Meat Company.
  • Oxo : the new meat beverage / Liebig's Extract of Meat Company.
  • Oxo : the new meat beverage : invigorating, sustaining / Liebig's Extract of Meat Company.
  • Oxo : the new meat beverage : invigorating, sustaining / Liebig's Extract of Meat Company.
  • Impetigo on meat handler's face
  • Prevention of food poisoning by cooling hot meat and keeping cold meat covered. Colour lithograph, ca. 1965.
  • Exportation of cattle and meat, 1864
  • Liebig's extract of meat : (extractum carnis).
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