Journal
SUSTAINABILITY
Volume 14, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su14020979
Keywords
life cycle assessment; proteins; food; environmental sustainability human health
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This paper summarizes the health aspects of protein-rich food alternatives to meat and conducts a literature review on the life-cycle environmental impacts of these alternative foods.
The food sector is responsible for a considerable impact on the environment in most environmental contexts: the food supply chain causes greenhouse gas emissions, water consumption, reduction in cultivable land, and other environmental impacts. Thus, a change in food supply is required to reduce the environmental impacts caused by the food supply chain and to meet the increasing demand for sufficient and qualitative nutrition. Large herds of livestock are inappropriate to achieve these goals due to the relevant impact of meat supply chain on the environment, e.g., the land used to grow feed for animals is eight times more than that for human nutrition. The search for meat alternatives, especially for the intake of critical nutrients such as protein, is a consequent step. In the above context, this paper summarizes the health aspects of protein-rich food alternatives to meat and carries out a literature review on the life-cycle environmental impacts of this alternative food.
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