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Books — Jayson Lusk

WEBNorwood, F.B. and J.L. Lusk. Compassion by the Pound: The Economics of Farm Animal Welfare.Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2011. Buy now from Amazon . Reviews …

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Food Spending by State — Jayson Lusk

WEBThe main reason for delving into these data is that they provide information on regional differences in food spending patterns. To explore these issues, I calculated …

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Impacts of health information on perceived taste and affordability

WEBThe journal Food Quality and Preference just released a new paper I co-authored with Jisung Jo, a former student who now works at the Korea Maritime …

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Alternative Protein Sources: Balancing Food Innovation, …

WEBThat’s the title of a new publication from the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine summarizing the outcomes from a workshop on alternative …

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How has medical spending changed and why — Jayson Lusk

WEBLast week, I gave a plenary address to the annual meeting of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists on the topic of obesity and the government's role …

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Why people lie on surveys and how to make them stop

WEBCalibration. Take responses from a survey and reduce them by some factor so that they more closely approximate what consumers will actually do. The problem: …

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The Ebbs and Flows of Fashionable Food — Jayson Lusk

WEBThe Ebbs and Flows of Fashionable Food. August 30, 2021. A recent article in Forbes ran under the headline “Regenerative Agriculture: The Next Trend In Food …

Category: Food Go Health

How Fat Taxes Affect the Rich and the Poor — Jayson Lusk

WEB“The tax/subsidy policies serve to widen the gap between the poor and non-poor, increasing the inequality in health and fiscal outcomes. Fat taxes cause the poor …

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Food Demand Survey

WEBThe results of the May 2015 edition of the Food Demand Survey (FooDS) are now in.. Results reveal mixed changes in willingness-to-pay for disaggregate meat …

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Controversy over the new dietary guidelines — Jayson Lusk

WEBYesterday I filmed a piece on Fox Business about the new dietary recommendations and the call to reduce meat consumption to improve health and the …

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Organic Food Consumption and Cancer — Jayson Lusk

WEBA couple of days ago, JAMA Internal Medicine published a paper looking at the relationship between stated levels of organic food consumption and cancer among a …

Category: Food, Cancer, Medicine Go Health

Holy Chicken! — Jayson Lusk

WEBMorgan Spurlock’s newest documentary, available on Amazon , is Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken! I wasn’t a big fan of the 1st edition of Super Size me, and I was …

Category: Health Go Health

Livestock, Externalities, and the Environment — Jayson Lusk

WEBThe Wall Street Journal published a piece today that I wrote dealing with externalities in livestock production. I didn't choose the title - my argument isn't that …

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Why do people waste food

WEBThe author and celebrity chef Dan Barber had an op-ed yesterday in the New York Times that touched on food waste. Oddly, he seems to associate waste with large …

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False Beliefs about Food Stamps — Jayson Lusk

WEBIn this post on the University of Illinois Policy Matters blog, Craig Gundersen tries to lay to rest a few false beliefs (or misconceptions) that may people (and policy …

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Berkeley Soda Tax — Jayson Lusk

WEBThere have been a number of news stories about this new paper in the American Journal of Public Health that studied the impact of Berkeley's new sugar …

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