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New blog post: Distancing death: slaughter, welfare and consumption in the British halal meat industry

In this blog post, Hibba Mazhary outlines her research plans on meat consumption and production in the British halal meat sector, including consumer motivations and the relationship that consumers have with animal death. She argues that the 'distancing' of consumers from animal death is particularly interesting in the halal meat sector due to disputes over the method of slaughter, both within the British Muslim community and amongst critics of non-stun slaughter.

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  • Plating Up Progress: New Investor Briefing Plating Up Progress, a project run jointly by the FCRN and the Food Foundation, has launched a second report proposing metrics for assessing progress towards healthy and sustainable food. 

  • New blog post by Susann Schade: Is it good to eat microalgae? In this blog post, Susann Schade illustrates both the potential of microalgae as food and the environmental impacts of their different cultivation methods. The blog post is based on her recent paper on the environmental impacts of microalgae cultivation systems, "A comparative analysis of the environmental impacts of cultivating microalgae in different production systems and climatic zones: A systematic review and meta-analysis".

  • New blog post by Hibba Mazhary: Distancing death: slaughter, welfare and consumption in the British halal meat industry In this blog post, Hibba Mazhary outlines her research plans on meat consumption and production in the British halal meat sector, including consumer motivations and the relationship that consumers have with animal death. She argues that the 'distancing' of consumers from animal death is particularly interesting in the halal meat sector due to disputes over the method of slaughter, both within the British Muslim community and amongst critics of non-stun slaughter.

  • In Fodder this week: Abandoned or lost fishing gear accounts for 10% of ocean plastic, harms marine wildlife and endangers ships, according to a report from Greenpeace; landlocked countries are often at greater risk of food insecurity during extreme weather events than coastal countries; a paper defines hyper-palatable foods; and growing palm oil with less fertiliser and herbicide could be both ecologically beneficial and economically viable.

  • Featured FCRN publication: Fruit and vegetables & UK greenhouse gas emissions: Exploring the relationship This 2006 FCRN working paper assesses the climate impacts of the UK’s fruit and vegetable supply chain. It finds that consumption of fruit and vegetables accounts for around 2.5% of the UK’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and that demand for the more GHG-intensive fruit and vegetables is growing.