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Consumption and production trends

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Conservatism predicts lapses from vegetarian/vegan diets to meat consumption (through lower social justice concerns and social support)
In this article, researchers aim to understand the factors predicting why people return to eating meat after adopting a non-meat diet. Since past research shows that political ideologies play a role in predicting meat consumption, the researchers’ focus is investigating to what extent these ideologies predict lapsing from vegan/vegetarian diets.
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Book: Sustainable food systems from agriculture to industry: Improving production and processing
This book, edited by Charis Michel Galanakis, describes the latest research on how food production and processing can become more sustainable.
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Personality and attitudinal correlates of meat consumption: Results of two representative German samples
In this study, researchers investigated the interplay between meat consumption and personality traits, political views, and environmental attitudes.
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British food system in a ‘vulnerable’ state, Lords committee hears
Brexit could affect food security and food prices in the UK, according to industry and academic voices.
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White paper: Meat: the future - Time for a protein portfolio to meet tomorrow’s demand
This short white paper, produced for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2018 in Davos-Klosters, explores some issues around the production and consumption of meat.
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The Rhythm of Food: Search data on food-related terms
Search data on food-related terms is visualised on The Rhythm of Food Website.
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How China plans to feed 1.4 billion growing appetites
A National Geographic feature covers the ways in which China’s diet is changing and its food system is becoming more industrialised.
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Aldi pledges to halve food waste by 2030
Food retailer Aldi has joined the Champions 12.3 coalition, a multi-stakeholder group aiming to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal of ‘halving per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels’ by 2030.
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It’s a jungle out there – the strange animals of economic organisation in agri-food value chains
This book, edited by Gaetano Martino, Konstantinos Karantininis, Stefano Pascucci, Liesbeth Dries and Jean Marie Codron, discusses different types of organisations within the European agri-food sector.
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