Hearing about unexpected things, people used to say, “How do they think up these things? There must be something in the water….” The Digital Trends web site, among others (see video, below), reports that a scientist has devised a way to make meat, of a sort, from feces: Mitsuyuki Ikeda, a researcher from the Okayama […]
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Press release of the week: Meat Aggression
This press release from McGill University is almost perfectly designed to attract lots of press attention. We have underlined some of of the key elements. Can you identify others? It begins: Caveman behavioural traits might kick in at dinner table before eating Nov. 8, 2010 Seeing meat provokes a sense of non-aggression that could be […]
Meat and potatoes and sperm
The 24 Oranges blog reports about research at Erasmus University, Rotterdam: Dutch cooking, the kitchen that has put the meat and the potatoes in meat ‘n’ potatoes, is great for increasing male fertility according to PhD student Marijana Vujkovic. Men who eat meat, potatoes and vegetables have a sperm count twice as high as those […]
Boles: Sandwich meat’s green sheen
The occasional green sheen of sandwich meat is no mystery, according to Jane Ann Boles [pictured here, demonstrating meat slicing for her students] and Ronald Pegg. They wrote a guide called “Meat Color”, for the Montana State University and Saskatchewan Food Product Innovation program: Iridescence in Processed Meat Products Iridescence is a common problem in […]