Animal Liberation SA has made a submission to the NHMRC concerning the draft Australian Dietary Guidelines

This article first appeared on "Crikey.com.au" and expresses some disappointment at some idiocies in the recently released Draft Dietary Guidelines ... (The graph comparing Cuban/Australian/Italian food supply was added later).

This is the third in what may become a long series about Mike Archer's inability to get his facts straight. The first one was about CLA in kangaroo meat, then came land use claims, and this one is about Archer's central claim about the number of mice killed during grain production.

This is the second in what may become a long series about Mike Archer's inability to get his facts straight. The first one was about CLA in kangaroo meat, this one is about land use to feed a vegetarian or vegan Australia.

Michael Archer of NSW University has long been an advocate of eating kangaroos ... he's recently been slaughtering his scientific credibility with dodgy health advice.

This is a post to some criticisms of me in comments on "The Conversation" following an article by Mike Archer .

You couldn't have missed the news about the Pakistan floods this year. Perhaps 20 million people displaced, at least 1400 killed. You probably didn't see news of its impacts on Pakistan's animals.

Adelaide Advertiser article opened with unreserved praise for long chain omega-3 oils as a magic bullet for everything from heart disease, through arthritis and brain development. If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is!

Vegans either spend way too much or way too little time thinking about B12. This weeks piece is some biological background and some simple rules of thumb.

Otzi is a relative newcomer in the world of ancient diets. This glacially mummified 5,200 year old doesn't really cut it next to much our older ancestors like Homos Habilis or Rudolfensis at 2 million years. But you can tell a lot about a man by his hair ... and we have Otzi's hair!

This piece is about dodgy misrepresentation of nutritional research on malnourished children in Kenya. The misrepresentation is being used to push animal products in developing countries. The piece was first published on BraveNewClimate.com last week.

This is Part II of "Eating Skippy". It is a response to a recent a couple of recent media articles. This second part is mainly about cruelty, health and medical issues but also discusses the unique problems of getting rid of the rest of the kangaroo ... the parts that aren't on the menu at places like the Hilton's Brasserie restaurant.

Media pieces about eating kangaroos pop up with the seeming inevitability of weeds. The latest is a UK Independent article based on a New Scientist piece (subscription required).

The Guide to the Basin Plan has stirred up quite a storm in Adelaide and the Murray Darling Basin. It's useful to ask how we got to where we are and what it has to do with what we choose to eat.

David Attenborough's "Life" documentaries displayed a dark side of what had previously just been pretty pictures of smart macaques bathing in hot springs. What's it got to do with global fisheries ... the Marine Stewardship Council and the 2009 Nobel Prize winner in Economics?

George Monbiot is always worth reading. When he's good, he's very good, but he can trip on tiny pebbles of arguments when the implications are unpalatable ... I'm talking very literally here about matters of the palate. So it is with his recent piece on veganism. Here's the first of a two part analysis.

Welcome back ... this is the second in a two part analysis of a recent piece recanting an earlier endoresment of vegan eating by UK author and environmentalist George Monbiot.

The prestigious science journal Nature and some of the world's top fisheries scientists are questioning the sustainability certification process of the Marine Stewardship Council.