Partitioning United States' feed consumption among livestock categories for improved environmental cost assessments
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Partitioning United States’ feed consumption among livestock categories for improved environmental cost assessments
The high environmental costs of raising livestock are now widely appreciated, yet consumption of animal-based food items continues and is expanding throughout the world. Consumers’ ability to distinguish among, and rank, various interchangeable animal-based items is crucial to reducing environmental costs of diets. However, the individual environmental burdens exerted by the five dominant lives...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Agricultural Science
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0021-8596,1469-5146
DOI: 10.1017/s0021859614000690