Use the Force against the Dark Side of Food
Category: Consumed
Our food system needs big changes.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 4:13 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Jennifer Jacquet is a postdoctoral research fellow working with Dr. Daniel Pauly and the Sea Around Us Project at the UBC Fisheries Centre. As a kid, she read 50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Earth and would come to discover that while those 50 things were indeed simple, saving the Earth was not.
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August 14, 2009: Dan Ax at Avukado Productions makes the following short video for Guilty Planet:
July 30, 2009: Successfully defended Ph.D. dissertation: Fish as Food in an Age of Globalization at the University of British Columbia.
June 2009: In press at Oryx: "Conserving Wild Fish in a Sea of Market-Based Efforts"
June 2009: Published at Conservation Biology: What Can Conservationists Learn from Investor Behavior?
May 27, 2009: Talk titled "Historical Renaming and Mislabeling of Fish" given the Oceans Past II conference in Vancouver, B.C.
May 24, 2009: Talk at the International Marine Conservation Congress in Washington, D.C.
March 24, 2009: Dave Beck and I showcase our jellyfish burger in Scientific American's photo gallery:
March 24, 2009: Talk at the Student Conference for Conservation Science at Cambridge University, UK.
March 14, 2009: Talk at the Kettle's Yard Problemathon for Cambridge's Science Festival.
March 3, 2009: Talk titled "Guilt v. Shame in Market Based Efforts to Save Our Fish" at the Max Planck Institute in Ploen, Germany.
February 27, 2009: Talk at Fauna & Flora International.
November 2008: A new study In hot soup: sharks captured in Ecuador's waters published in Environmental Sciences.
November 2008:
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No New MPAs? Obama: Don't Do Us Like That
Category: Guilt
Obama administration says not to expect any new marine reserves.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 12:50 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Guilt and Shame: What's the Difference?
Category: Guilt
A classically held anthropological view is that "shame results from a public exposure of some impropriety or shortcoming whereas guilt results from more private events." I concur with the anthropological notion that shame is the more public emotion (and also,...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 10:37 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Guilty Language of Offsets
Category: Climate
What is it about offsets that lend them to guilt-laden language?
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 11:03 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Guilt-Free Fish a Flop
Category: Guilt
Why the MSC is a flop.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 5:08 PM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
More on Giving Up Seafood...
Category: Food Systems
More on the reasons why we should give up seafood altogether.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 10:25 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Food Is All the Rage: Why Not Be Outrageous?
Category: Consumed
Because food issues are "one of the most interesting social movements afoot right now", I thought I would continue the discussion over whether we should give up eating seafood just a bit longer and point out the recent post at...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 6:14 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Is There Really a Debate over Seafood?
Category: Food Systems
We need to give up seafood.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 1:07 PM • 43 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A Call to Give Up Seafood
Category: Consumed
An interview on why we should give up seafood.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 2:50 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Meat Guilt
Category: Consumed
Guilt over meat isn't a bad thing.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 2:29 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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