Food
Food & Environment / Food
The Institute of Public Affairs looks at food and agriculture from the perspective of consumer choice and liberalisation. Advances in agricultural biotechnology is likely bring large environmental and consumer benefits to the Australian agricultural industry. But some sectors in Australia's agricultural industry are still burdened by legacy regulatory frameworks which hamper their competitiveness. The IPA focuses on the regulatory barriers faced by farmers and consumers.
News
Dont ditch cattle yet, science isnt settled
How many times have you heard it said, the science is settled, we will have catastrophic global warming unless we change our ways and reduce our...
Whale: It’s Our Choice
It's free-range, organic and tastes like an exceptionally tender eye fillet, but it's unlikely to find its way onto the supermarket shelves in...
More science less opinion on GM and rats
Another Look at GM Corn Seems Merited Those who make their living from lobbying/marketing sometimes claim "perception is reality". One topic...
Free trade will help the poor
TV chef Gordon Ramsay is like many other celebrities. They think that because they can sing or dance, or kick a football, or, in Ramsay's case,...
Myths on food miles
Last week federal Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Tony Burke, exposed the ``food miles'' campaign as ``nothing more than...
Publications
Big fat beat up
Arnold Schwarzenegger is obese. He's been obese his entire adult life, including the seven times he won the Mr Olympia bodybuilding title. Despite obesity not impacting his own, clearly excellent, health, Governor Schwarzenegger has introduced...
Who should take the blame for the biofuels tragedy?
In Mexico early last year, 75,000 people took to the streets in protest of the increasing cost of basic grain, in what were branded the ‘tortilla riots.' In March 2008, there were food riots in Egypt. And in April, Haitians rioted over the...
Taking apart Australia’s last single desk
After more than two decades of economic reform there were few truly egregious examples of government sanctioned protection left to greet the incoming Rudd Government. Perhaps the most outstanding was the monopoly granted to a publicly listed...
