Environmental Impacts and Life Cycle Analysis of Organic Meat Production and Processing

Organic Meat Production and Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 113-136

  Castellini, Cesare ^a   Boggia, Antonio ^a   Paolotti, Luisa ^a   Thoma, Greg J ^b   Kim, Dae Soo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b University of Arkansas   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon footprint; Conventional; Environmental impacts; Life cycle assessment; Organic; Poultry production; Sustainability; Swine production

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886524133     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118229088.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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