In the News . . .

• Meatball from long-extinct mammoth created by food firm -- The Guardian (28 March 2023)
  
  
• Ancient humans may have cooked and eaten snails 170,000 years ago -- NewScientist (25 March 2023)
  
  
• Anthropologists outline techniques for identifying food eaten by early hominins -- PHYS ORG (07 February 2023)
  
  
• Appetite for frogs’ legs in France and Belgium ‘driving species to extinction’ -- The Guardian (22 June 2022)
  
  
• Coffee bad, red wine good? Top food myths busted – The Guardian (14 May 2022)
  
  
• Did Eating Meat Really Make Us Human? -- WIRED (27 January 2022)
  
  
• Bean burrito or beef burrito? Restaurants try messages on menus to help diners order less meat -- BBCNews (26 January 2022)
  
  
• Meat the Future -- Bullfrog Films (2021, 88 min.)
  
  
• Spanish should eat less meat to limit climate crisis, says minister -- The Guardian (26 December 2021)
  
  
• Food myths busted: dairy, salt and steak may be good for you after all -- The Guardian (26 September 2021)
  
  
• Bittman, Mark. 2021. Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal. NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
  
  • Listen (50:19): Mark Bittman Cooked Everything. Now He Wants to Change Everything. The Ezra Klein Show (16 March 2021)
    
    
    • Transcript: Ezra Klein Interviews Mark Bittman -- Ezra Klein (16 March 2021
      
      
• How early humans' quest for food stoked the flames of evolution -- The Guardian (07 March 2021)
  
  
  • Dunn, Robb, and Monica Sanchez. 2021. Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
    
    
• Cannibal sandwiches: Wisconsinites urged against eating traditional raw meat -- The Guardian (14 December 2020)
  
  
• How do we know what they ate? -- Australian Museum (20 October 2020)
  
  
• Why the humble meat pie defines Australia -- BBCtravel (27 March 2020)
  
  
• Plant-Based Meat Has Roots in the 1970s -- The New York Times (16 February 2020)
  
  
  • Meatless Burgers Are on Trend. Eating to Save the World Has a Long History (video) -- The New York Times (16 February 2020)
    
    
• Meat Increases Heart Risks, Latest Study Concludes -- The New York Times (11 February 2020)
  
  
• Nicotine style ‘meat patch’ developed to help wean consumers off carnivore diet -- FOODnavigator (06 February 2020)
  
  
• How much red meat is healthy? Study reveals a sobering reality -- Inverse (03 February 2020)
  
  
• Cut meat and dairy intake 'by a fifth', report urges -- BBCNews (23 January 2020)
  
  
• Impossible Dumplings and Beyond Buns: Will China Buy Fake Meat? -- The New York Times (07 January 2020)
  
  
• Red meat plays vital role in diets, claims expert in fightback against veganism -- The Guardian (05 January 2020)
  
  
• The Meat-Lover’s Guide to Eating Less Meat -- The New York Times (31 December 2019)
  
  
• It’s Called ‘Plant-Based,’ Look It Up -- The New York Times (28 December 2019)
  
  
• ‘Not enough pork in the world’ to deal with China’s demand for meat -- The Guardian (23 November 2019)
  
  
• Man sues Burger King for cooking vegan burger and meat on same grill -- The Guardian (19 November 2019)
  
  
• The vegan revolution: why the latest 'meat' is made entirely from thin air -- The Guardian (13 November 2019)
  
  
• Fair game? A burger recipe made from ‘ethical’ meat -- The Guardian (09 November 2019)
  
  
• The New Makers of Plant-Based Meat? Big Meat Companies -- The New York Times (14 October 2019)
  
  
• What Was Kept in This Stone Age Meat Locker? Bone Marrow -- The New York Times (09 October 2019)
  
  
• What we eat matters: to change climate crisis, we need to reshape the food system – The Guardian (08 October 2019)
  
  
• First meat grown in space lab 248 miles from Earth -- The Guardian (07 October 2019)
  
  
• Scientist Who Discredited Meat Guidelines Didn’t Report Past Food Industry Ties -- The New York Times (04 October 2019)
  
  
• Eat Less Red Meat, Scientists Said. Now Some Believe That Was Bad Advice -- The New York Times (04 October 2019)
  
  
• Is meat really that bad for you? -- BBCNews (03 October 2019)
  
  
• Is red meat back on the menu? -- BBCNews (30 September 2019)
  
  
• Uproar after research claims red meat poses no health risk -- The Guardian (30 September 2019)
  
  
• You Might Not Want to Eat Bugs. But Would You Eat Meat That Ate Bugs? -- The New York Times (21 September 2019)
  
  
• Is the New Meat Any Better Than the Old Meat? -- The New York Times (21 September 2019)
  
  
• The cut of meat that chefs love but butchers throw away -- The Guardian (14 September 2019)
  
  
• My carnivore diet: what I learned from eating only beef, salt and water -- The Guardian (11 September 2018)
  
  
• Global food producers 'failing to face up to role' in climate crisis – The Guardian (04 September 2020)
  
  
• Burger King to sell plant-based Impossible Whopper across the US -- The Guardian (01 August 2019)
  
  
• What’s Meat Got to Do With It? -- The New York Times (25 July 2019)
  
  
• Why is Arkansas waging war on veggie burgers?-- The Guardian (02 July 2019)
  
  
• Would this burger tempt you to eat meat? -- BBCNews (12 July 2019)
  
  
• Arby’s Has an Answer to Plant-Based Meat: A Meat-Based Carrot -- The New York Times (16 July 2019)
  
  
• I’m paranoid it’s meat’: the rise of vegan conspiracy theories -- The Guardian (02 July 2019)
  
  
• Revealed: rampant deforestation of Amazon driven by global greed for meat -- The Guardian (02 July 2019)
  
  
• Most 'meat' in 2040 will not come from dead animals, says report -- The Guardian (12 June 2019)
  
  
• What if eating meat is not only wrong – but obsolete? -- The Guardian (05 June 2019)
  
  
• 'Forever chemicals' found in seafood, meats and chocolate cake, FDA says -- The Guardian (03 June 2019)
  
  
• Asian American Chefs Are Embracing Spam. But How Did the Canned Meat Make Its Way Into Their Cultures? -- Time (28 May 2019)
  
  
• Beyond Meat: Shares in vegan burger company double -- BBCNews (02 May 2019)
  
  
• Is plant burger firm Beyond Meat really worth $1.5bn? -- BBCNews (30 April 2019)
  
  
• US vegan food-maker Beyond Meat eyes $1bn valuation -- BBCNews (23 April 2019)
  
  
• ‘Veggie discs’ to replace veggie burgers in EU crackdown on food labels -- The Guardian (04 April 2019)
  
  
• Meat Is a Big Climate Issue. What About Dairy? -- The New York Times (20 February 2019)
  
  
• Is lab-grown meat really better for the environment? -- University of Oxford (19 February 2019)
  
  
• What the 'meat paradox' reveals about moral decision making -- BBCfuture (06 February 2019)
  
  
• Which countries eat the most meat? -- BBCNews (04 February 2019)
  
  
• Poland alarmed by sick cow slaughter at meat plant -- BBCNews (28 January 2019)
  
  
• New plant-focused diet would ‘transform’ planet’s future, say scientists -- The Guardian (16 January 2019)
  
  
• Not Your Average Hotdog -- Alexander Street/CNN (2018)
  
  
• Lab-grown meat of the future is here – and may even sustainably fill demand -- The Guardian (29 November 2018)
  
  
• Vegetarian meat substitutes 'exceeding salt limits' -- BBCNews (23 October 2018)
  
  
• Would you eat slaughter-free meat? -- BBCNews (15 October 2018)
  
  
• Meat Labs Pursue a Once-Impossible Goal: Kosher Bacon -- The New York Times (30 September 2018)
  
  
• All-plant Impossible Burger and its 'blood' are safe, FDA says -- MPRNews (26 July 2018)
  
  
• Rising global meat consumption 'will devastate environment' -- The Guardian (19 July 2018)
  
  
• WeWork will no longer serve meat at events or expense meals with it -- The Guardian (13 July 2018)
  
  
• Fake chews? New Zealand MP fears 'existential threat' of synthetic burgers -- The Guardian (04 July 2018)
  
  
• Meat and fish multinationals 'jeopardising Paris climate goals' -- The Guardian (30 May 2018)
  
  
• The new food: meet the startups racing to reinvent the meal -- The Guardian (30 April 2018)
  
  
• Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth -- The Guardian (21 May 2018)
  
  
• Can Responsible Grazing Make Beef Climate-Neutral? -- VALERIE BROWN, CivilEats (10 April 2018)
  
  
• I’m obsessed with mock meat and I’m not even a vegetarian -- The Guardian (26 March 2018)
  
  
• How meat is recycled and sold to the poor -- BBCNews (23 Februaery 2018)
  
  
• Fear of meat scandal as data shows hygiene breaches at over half UK plants -- The Guardian (23 February 2018)
  
  
• Meat of the Matter: Folding Their Tents | Pork Network rem peta animal welfare -- QUARTZ (11 April 2017)
  
  
• The Long, Slow Trek To Get Americans To Eat Camel Meat -- NPRthesalt (02 February 2017)
  
  
• Just the Availability of Meat Causes Obesity, Say Anthropologists -- Science 2.0 (01 August 2016)
  
  
• Eating China: Where's the Meat? -- National Geographic (04 September 2016)
  
  
• Why Do We Love Some Animals But Eat Others? -- NPR, (26 August 2016)
  
  
• The people who ate elephant heads -- BBCearth (22 June 2016)
  
  
• No Giant Leap for Mankind: Why We’ve Been Looking at Human Evolution in the Wrong Way -- Conversation (14 June 2016)
  
  
• Secrets of the world's oldest funeral feast -- BBCearth (24 May 2016)
  
  
• How to eat steak like a Brazilian -- BBCtravel (03 May 2016)
  
  
• Why you should add bison to your diet -- MPRNews (06 April 2016)
  
  
• How Diet Shaped Human Evolution -- ScienceDaily (29 March 2016)
  
  
• DNews: Why Antibiotics Can Spell Trouble for Meat Eaters -- Discovery News (30 March 2016)
  
  
• Lots of Food Tastes Good. Why Do We Crave Meat? [Review of Meathooked by Marta Zaraska] -- Washington Post (14 March 2016)
  
  
• Early human habitat, recreated for first time, shows life was no picnic -- ScienceDaily (10 March 2016)
  
  
• Original Paleo Diet Included Red Meat, Starchy Veggies -- Discovery News (09 March 2016)
  
  
• Chew on This: Slicing Meat Helped Shape Modern Humans -- NPR (09 March 2016)
  
  
• Meat eating accelerated face evolution -- BBC News (09 March 2016)
  
  
• How Sliced Meat Drove Human Evolution -- Science (09 March 2016)
  
  
• By Land or by Sea: How Did Early Humans Access Key Brain-Building Nutrients? -- Scientific American (01 March 2016)
  
  
• Zaraska, Marta. Meathooked: The History and Science of Our 2.5-Million-Year Obsession with Meat. NY: Basic Books, 2016.
  
  
• Consensus on Dietary Guidelines May Be Long In Coming -- The Scout Report, October 30, 2015, Volume 21, Number 42
  
  
• The (Fake) Meat Revolution -- New York Times (19 September 2015)
  
  
• Early human diet explains our eating habits -- Phys.org (31 August 2015)
  
  
• Bone Marks Reveal Our Ancestors Were Eating Meat 3.4 Million Years Ago -- Forbes (14 August 2015)
  
  
• Marks on 3.4-million-year-old bones not due to trampling, analysis confirms -- ScienceDaily (13 August 2015)
  
  
• People Ate Pork in the Middle East Until 1,000 B.C.—What Changed? -- Smithsonian (18 March 2015)
  
  
• More Holistic Approach Needed When Studying the Diets of Our Ancestors -- EurekAlert (10 December 2014)
  
  
• The mystery of what goes into sausages -- Veronique Greenwood, BBC (20 October 2014)
  
  
• United Steaks of America map: If each state could have only one meat, what would it be? -- L.V. Anderson, Slate (10 March 2014)
  
  
• What Did Prehistoric Humans Eat? Photos -- Discovery News (07 January 2014)
  
  
• Giraffe Was on the Menu in Pompeii -- Past Horizons (02 January 2014)
  
  
• Giraffe Was on Menu in Pompeii Restaurants -- Discovery News (03 January 2014)
  
  
• Meat’s large water footprint: why raising livestock and poultry for meat is so resource-intensive -- FoodTank (December 2013)
  
  
• Between pigs and anchovies: Where humans rank on the food chain -- MPRNews (08 December 2013)
  
  
• Humans Are Becoming More Carnivorous -- Nature (02 December 2013)
  
  
• What Makes a Hamburger and Other Cooked Meat So Enticing to Humans? -- Washington Post (12 August 2013)
  
  
• Human Ancestors Had Taste for Meat, Brains -- ScienceNews (03 May 2013)
  
  
• Greenland's Viking Settlers Gorged On Seals -- ScienceDaily (19 November 2012)
  
  
• Eating Meat Made Us Human, Suggests New Skull Fossil -- LiveScience (03 October 2012)
  
  
• Earliest Porotic Hyperostosis on a 1.5-Million-Year-Old Hominin, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania -- PLoS ONE (03 October 2012)
  
  
• Anthropologist Finds Evidence of Hominin Meat Eating 1.5 Million Years Ago: Eating Meat May Have 'Made Us Human' -- Science Daily (03 October 2012)
  
  
• Dental calculus provides surprise in early hominin diet -- Past Horizons (07 July 2012)
  
  
• Early human ancestor chewed bark -- BBC News (27 June 2012)
  
  
• We Evolved To Eat Meat, But How Much Is Too Much? -- NPR (25 June 2012)
  • The Time Traveler's Cookbook: Meat-Lover's Edition-- NPR (25 June 2012)
    
    
• How humans grew fruitful by devouring meat -- MSNBC (18 April 2012)
  
  
• No Omnivore’s Dilemma for Alaskan Hunter-Gatherers -- Science (19 February 2012)
  
  

• 200,000-year-old Cut Of Meat: Archaeologists Shed Light On Life, Diet And Society Before The Delicatessen -- Science Daily (15 October 2009)
  
  
• Adams, Carol J. The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory. NY: Continuum, 2011. [20^th Anniversary Edition]
  
  
• [video] American Meat
  (85 min., 2011, UM Duluth Library Multimedia BJ52.5 .A44 2011 DVD)
  (UM Duluth Library Multimedia Guide BJ52.5 .A44 2011 DVD)
  
  
  • Food Safety News Review at
    <http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2011/09/american-meat-latest-film-to-join-food-debate/>
    
    
• Brown, Lester R. Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity. NY: W.W. Norton, 2012.
  
  
• De Vany, Arthur. The New Evolution Diet: What Our Paleolithic Ancestors Can Teach Us about Weight Loss, Fitness, and Aging. NY: Rodale, 2011.
  
  
• [video] Did Cooking Make Us Human?
  (52 min., 2010, New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group)
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  •  BBC News film HomePage:
     Did the discovery of cooking make us human?
    -- BBCNews (02 March 2010)
    
  
  
• Early Human Hunters Had Fewer Meat-sharing Rituals -- ScienceDaily (12 August 2009)
  
  

• Forager Simulation Game -- Brian D. Jones
  
  
• Kraig, Bruce and Patty Carroll. Man Bites Dog: Hot Dog Culture in America. AltiMira, 2012
  
  
• Le, Stephen. 100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why it Matters Today. NY: Picador, 2016.
  
  
• Lee, Paula Young. Game: A Global History. London: Reaktion Books, 2013.
  
  
• Martins, Patrick, with Mike Edison. The Carnivore's Manifesto: Eating Well, Eating Responsibly, and Eating Meat. NY: Little, Brown, 2014.
  
  
• Meat, Fire And The Evolution Of Man -- NPR (02 August 2010)
  
  
• Meat vs. Potatoes: What Our Chimp Ancestors Liked -- LiveScience (13 November 2007)
  
  
• Mol, Annemarie. Eating in Theory. Durham, London: Duke University Press, 2021.
  
  
• Ogle, Maureen. In Meat We Trust: An Unexpected History of Carnivore America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
  
  
• Saffron, Foer, Jonathan. Eating Animals. NY: Little, Brown and Company, 2009.
  
  
• Schatzker, Mark. Steak: One Man's Search for the World's Tastiest Piece of Beef. NY: Viking Penguin, 2010.
  
  
• Steak Dinners Go Back 2.5 Million Years -- MSNBC (09 February 2010)
  
  
• Toussaint-Samat, Maguelonne. A History of Food. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons/Blackwell 2009.
  
  
• We Evolved To Eat Meat, But How Much Is Too Much? -- NPR (25 June 2012)
  • The Time Traveler's Cookbook: Meat-Lover's Edition-- NPR (25 June 2012)
    
    
• Weiss, Brad. Real Pigs: Shifting Values in the Field of Local Pork. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.
  
  
• When the woolly mammoth ran out, early man turned to roasted vegetables -- Los Angeles Times (27 December 2008)
  
  
• Will People Really Be Forced to Stop Eating Meat? -- LiveScience (29 August 2012)
  
  
• Zaraska, Marta. Meathooked: The History and Science of Our 2.5-Million-Year Obsession with Meat. NY: Basic Books, 2016.
  
  
• Zhong VW, Van Horn L, P Greenland, MR Carnethon, H Ning, JT Wilkins, DM Lloyd-Jones, and NB Allen. 2020. "Associations of Processed Meat, Unprocessed Red Meat, Poultry, or Fish Intake With Incident Cardiovascular Disease and All-Cause Mortality". JAMA Internal Medicine. Accessed February 9, 2020 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2759737?guestAccessKey=f17333ad-bd7b-413d-a71b-8eadbcfe30cb&utm_source=For_The_Media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_content=tfl&utm_term=020320.