Why is plant-based diet still frowned upon in Europe?
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There are strong images – both admiration and irritation – associated with the popularisation of vegetarianism and the use of meat substitutes. Marketing researchers from the University of Vaasa, Finland, have studied attitudes towards vegetarianism and why meat substitutes still do not make it off the shelf and into the shopping basket. Their research shows that meat alternative consumers elicit not only admiration but also envy, fear, contempt, and anger in others.
Researchers from Brazilian, Argentine, and Uruguayan institutions analyze the barriers that low- and middle-income countries face in disseminating research on intensive care medicine, particularly in the treatment of critically ill patients. Published this month in The Lancet, the study highlights how historical and economic biases perpetuate inequalities and suggests changes to make the scientific publishing system more inclusive and representative of the global community.
Climate change and flagging investment in research and development has U.S. agriculture facing its first productivity slowdown in decades. A new study estimates the public sector investment needed to reverse course.
In a recently published article in the New England Journal of Medicine, Marisha Burden, MD, MBA, and Liselotte Dyrbye, MD, MHPE, introduce evidence-based work design, a unique approach that confronts the growing divide between frontline clinicians and administrative leaders in health care.
When major storms hit Houston last spring and summer, losing power was a nightmare for residents, but for many, the financial fallout was just as devastating. A new report from Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research finds that more than half of Houston-area workers lost income due to these storms, either because they couldn’t get to work or their jobs were forced to close.
Business conferences, such as the ESTRO Congress (European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology) will bring thousands of delegates to the host city and, are just as important to the economy as major sporting events such as the Olympics, according to new research from the University of Surrey.