Impact of meat consumption on health and environmental sustainability /
"This book addresses the difficulties, challenges, and opportunities in reducing excessive meat consumption in order to mitigate human and environmental damage"--Provided by publisher.
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IGI Global,
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Publisher Address: | Hershey, Pa. : |
Publication Dates: | [2016] |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Online Access: |
http://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve.aspx?doi=10.4018/978-1-4666-9553-5 |
Summary: |
"This book addresses the difficulties, challenges, and opportunities in reducing excessive meat consumption in order to mitigate human and environmental damage"--Provided by publisher. |
Carrier Form: | PDFs (410 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781466695542 |
Access: | Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers. |
Index Number: | HD9410 |
CLC: | F416.82 |
Contents: | The greenhouse gas emissions of various dietary practices and intervention possibilities to reduce this impact / Celia Green [and 4 others] -- A fresh look at livestock greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation / Robert Goodland -- Improving the understanding of climate change factors with images / Geoff Russell -- Water quality impacts of abattoir activities in Southern Africa / Never Mujere -- Livestock and climate change: an analysis of media coverage in the Sydney Morning Herald / Xavier Mayes -- Environmental concerns and the mainstreaming of veganism / Nick Pendergrast -- Meat and dietary guidelines / Rosemary Stanton -- Red meat and health: evidence regarding red meat, health, and chronic disease risk / Kate Marsh, Angela Saunders, Carol Zeuschner -- The future of antibiotics and meat / Talia Raphaely, Dora Marinova, Mira Marinova -- Impact of meat consumption on the health of people, the animals they eat, and the earth's resources / Joyce D'Silva -- China's growing meat demands: implications for sustainability / Xiumei Guo, Talia Raphaely, Dora Marinova -- Exploring flexitarianism: meat reduction in a meat-centred food culture / Hans Dagevos -- Feasting from the federal trough: how the meat, egg and dairy industries gorge on taxpayer dollars while fighting modest rules / Paul Shapiro -- Sustainable food consumption: a mission almost impossible because of the west / Amzad Hossain -- Meat myths and marketing / Diana Bogueva, Ian Phau -- Intensive speciesism regions in Brazil: ethical and social stains in territories supplying global meat markets / Luciano Florit, Cristiane Sbardelati -- Meat production and consumption: an ethical educational approach / Paula Br ugger, Dora Marinova, Talia Raphaely -- After meat / Jonathan Balcombe. |