This paper gives an overview of the environmental impact of the meat chain. This industry has a significant impact on the environment and current scientific research outlines three main perspectives – product-based using life cycle assessment as a tool; process-based exploring the main environmental...
"How quickly these shifts occur and how large they will be remains to be seen, but companies that have traditionally focused on producing large quantities of meat may have to shift towards producing more 'premium' products with low environmental impact and/or plant-based alternatives to remain co...
“Across town in Washington [from EPA], the government's handing out money to the meat industry, to try and build up these small- and medium-sized plants to make them more sustainable, to make the meat industry more sustainable,” Young said. In a statement, USDA acknowledged that...
The book discusses city-scale actions to estimate the environmental impact of food systems, including the meat chain, feeding crops to farmed fish, the confectionary industry, agriculture, tea processing, cheese production, the dairy industry, cold chain, and ice cream production. Food waste and ...
Environmental impact of different production systems and consumer willingness to pay for chicken meat produced with a higher regard for the environment The aim of this study was to identify policy approaches to promote sustainable broiler production in Malaysia and this was addressed by three specific ...
Economic Incentives for Firms to Implement Enhanced Food Safety Controls: Case of the Canadian Red Meat and Poultry Processing Sector This study assesses quantitatively the economic incentives for firms to adopt food safety controls and the potential impact of a number of firm- and market... UK Ja...
The assessment included direct measures and weighing of leftover food, and the environmental and economic impact was calculated. A two-level intervention was implemented for students and staff, and a re-assessment of food waste was conducted to evaluate the intervention’s impact. Statistical ...
However,theanalysishaslimits.Underthealgorithm,thehigherthescore,thehighertheenvironmentalimpact.Asexpected,foodscontainingmoremeatanddairyscoremuchhigherthanthosewithmoreplant-basedingredients.Buttherewaswidevariationwithinspecifictypes.Forexample,thehighest-impactporksausagescoredaboutathirdhigherthantheleastone.Andthe...
His own team has also beeninvestigating the environmental impactand he says that while cultivated meat is no silver bullet to solve all the world’s problems, “it certainly has a lot of potential because it directly offers a more sustainable alternative to conventional...
Industry Operations By: Mark Hamstra July 26, 2023 A comprehensive study that examined the environmental impact of vegan diets compared with vegetarianism, fish eating, and meat-eating, found clear advantages for veganism. The study, published in the journal Nature, looked at the dietary ...