The environmental cost of protein food choices

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 2067-2073

  Sabaté, Joan ^a   Sranacharoenpong, Kitti ^a   Harwatt, Helen ^a   Wien, Michelle ^b   Soret, Samuel ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal protein; Plant protein; Resource efficiency; Sustainable agriculture

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; PHASEOLUS VULGARIS;

PROTEIN INTAKE;

AGRICULTURE; ALMOND; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; DIET; EGG; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; MEAT; PHASEOLUS; PROTEIN INTAKE;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DIET; DIETARY PROTEINS; EGGS; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; MEAT; PHASEOLUS; PRUNUS DULCIS;

EID: 84937002653     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980014002377     Document Type: Article

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