Taste test: Fake bacon taste ‘like an egg carton’ The Project film in Beef Capital
What better place to taste test fake meat than in the Beef Capital of Casino? Dale Paget and Pete Rogers were filming a segment for Channel 10’s The Project to be screened on television. “We wanted to see what people on the front line of the meat industry thought,” Dale said.
Mind me neck: Click go the shears on an alpaca’s fleece
Shearing an alpaca is like shearing a sheep. Surely. Watching shearer James Dixon at Big Sky Alpaca farm proved otherwise. The alpaca is not held vertical between the shearer’s legs like a sheep ... Then there is the long neck of the alpaca that could easily injure if the alpaca thrashes around and this is secured with two weights. And the noise – oh my!
Meet the artist: Can you imagine a world without seeds?
The question – can you imagine a world without seeds? inspired Afterlee artist Jenny Kitchener’s latest solo exhibition. Jenny’s new exhibition Seed highlights the important role bees, birds and other pollinating insects play in seed production.