Comment on "Food-Miles and the Relative Climate Impacts of Food Choices in the United States"

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3982-3983

  Hopp, Steven L ^a   Gussow, Joan Dye ^b  

^a EMORY AND HENRY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; ENERGY CONSERVATION; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD PREFERENCE; FOOD SAFETY; GREENHOUSE GAS; LETTER; RED MEAT;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CLIMATE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMANS; MEAT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 66249089847     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es900749q     Document Type: Letter

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