Curbing global meat consumption: Emerging evidence of a second nutrition transition

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 39, Issue , 2014, Pages 95-106

  Vranken, Liesbet ^a   Avermaete, Tessa ^a   Petalios, Dimitrios ^a   Mathijs, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Income; Meat consumption; Nutrition transition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATERING SERVICE; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; COST; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FEMININITY; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INCOME; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; MASCULINITY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC RELATIONS; RED MEAT; RELIGION;

EID: 84897843645     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: 18736416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2014.02.009     Document Type: Article

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