Land-based production of animal protein: Impacts, efficiency, and sustainability

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1328, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 18-28

  Wu, Guoyao ^a   Bazer, Fuller W ^a   Cross, H Russell ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Efficiency; Livestock; Nutrition; Poultry

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANIMAL PROTEIN; GROUND WATER; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PROTEIN INTAKE;

AGRICULTURE; AIR POLLUTION; ANIMAL PRODUCT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CATERING SERVICE; DIET; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FARM ANIMAL; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LACTATION; LANDSCAPE; LIVESTOCK; MANURE; MEAT; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PLANT WATER USE; POULTRY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOIL POLLUTION; WATER CONTAMINATION; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOOD QUALITY; POPULATION GROWTH; PROTEIN INTAKE; STANDARDS; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

ANIMALIA;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DIETARY PROTEINS; FOOD QUALITY; FOOD SUPPLY; HUMANS; MEAT; POPULATION GROWTH; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT;

EID: 84925557493     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.12566     Document Type: Article

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