Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Relevant to such a strategy, estimating the environmental impacts of food products in a standardized way – as has been done with a dataset of more than 57,000 food products in supermarkets – could also be used to inform consumers or in policy, making consumers more aware of the environmental impacts of animal-based products (or requiring ...
The observed adverse impacts on livestock production include increased heat stress in all but the coldest nations. [6] [7] This causes both mass animal mortality during heatwaves, and the sublethal impacts, such as lower quantity of quality of products like milk, greater vulnerability to conditions like lameness or even impaired reproduction. [3]
Science & Tech. Shopping. Sports
The US Global Change Research Program (2017) identified four key areas of concern in the agriculture sector: reduced productivity, degradation of resources, health challenges for people and livestock, and the adaptive capacity of agriculture communities. [3] Large-scale adaptation and mitigation of these threats relies on changes in farming policy.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
The meat shortage increased sales and investor interest in plant-based meat replacement products from companies such as Impossible Foods, Beyond Meat, and Novameat. [155] U.S. sales of meat alternatives were up 280% over 2019 for the week ending March 14, 2020; [156] the following week, sales of fresh meat alternatives were up 454% over 2019. [157]
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Today, eggs are produced on large egg ranches on which environmental parameters are well controlled. Chickens are exposed to artificial light cycles to stimulate egg production year-round. In addition, forced molting is commonly practiced in the US, in which manipulation of light and food access triggers molting, in order to increase egg size ...