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Fish kills have caused a stink for the Tasmanian salmon industry.

Thousands of dead fish, a $37m federal promise and an animal close to extinction: Australia’s ‘salmon war’ gets ugly

A major fish kill in the waters of south-east Tasmania has raised tensions just as the prime minister has backed the industry.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons

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Maryland farmer Ned Dykes, 80, sells out of about 400 dozen eggs by midday at the Dupont Circle market each Sunday.

Trump vowed to reduce inflation. Eggs didn’t get the memo

Across the US, a scarcity of eggs caused primarily by a bad strain of bird flu has sent prices skyrocketing and made them tricky to find.

  • Michael Koziol
The rising cost of coffee.

Charge $7 for a coffee? Some stressed-out cafe owners would rather shut down

Stuck between soaring business costs and reduced consumer spending, cafe owners are in a “Mexican stand-off”, says Pablo & Rusty’s CEO.

  • Jessica Yun
A lab-grown lamb meatball, being plated by chef Garth Channing.

Taste-testing the lab-grown future of meat and milk

Dozens of companies are trying to grow, ferment or even 3D-print meat substitutes. Here’s how they stack up against the real thing.

  • Liam Mannix
After 25 years, Professor James Dale’s genetically modified bananas have undergone their most important test.

The man who saved bananas from certain death – and next, 750,000 children

Professor James Dale’s bananas are the first genetically modified fruit approved for commercial growth. But would you eat one?

  • Angus Dalton
Forged Parfait served in a pastry shell with a brulee topping.

Developed in a lab and grown in a vat: It’s meat, but not as you know it

Global demand for meat is growing. Without innovation, this will put more pressure on land clearing and greenhouse gas emissions. Could cultured meat be the solution?

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Charles Sturt University winemaker Johnny Clarke said cans broaden the places where wine can be consumed.

Are wine drinkers too snobbish to drink wine from cans instead of glass?

Winemakers spruik the environmental credentials of canned wine, but retail sales suggest drinkers are yet to be convinced to give up the bottle.

  • Andrew Taylor
Jonai Farms have won the right build an abattoir on their property, which they say will ensure they can give their animals a humane end. Tammi Jonas in the cool room at her farm in Eganstown.

The farmers who want to look their livestock in the eye before slaughter

Driven by decreasing access to major slaughterhouses, this small pork and beef farmer will build its own abattoir after fending off a VCAT challenge by neighbours.

  • Benjamin Preiss
Alasdair MacLeod

How Rupert Murdoch’s son-in-law solved crisis at family farm

Alasdair MacLeod was regularly escaping to the country with his young family when he realised something was going horribly wrong there – and needed a radical solution.

  • Catherine Naylor
Lunch with climate activist Anna Rose who is taking Coalition MPs to COP at Lucky Kwong in Eveleigh, Sydney on December 4, 2023. Photo: Dominic Lorrimer

Anna asked a climate sceptic for some advice. His words would reshape her career

Climate activist Anna Rose wanted to convince former Liberal senator Nick Minchin about climate change. Instead, the experience set her on a different path.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons

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