التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Environmental Impact of Animal-Based Food Production and the Feasibility of a Shift Toward Sustainable Plant-Based Diets in the United States |
| المؤلفون: |
Alan Espinosa-Marrón, Kate Adams, Lea Sinno, Alejandra Cantu-Aldana, Martha Tamez, Abrania Marrero, Shilpa N. Bhupathiraju, Josiemer Mattei |
| المصدر: |
Frontiers in Sustainability, Vol 3 (2022) |
| بيانات النشر: |
Frontiers Media S.A., 2022. |
| سنة النشر: |
2022 |
| المجموعة: |
LCC:Economic theory. Demography |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
plant-forward diet, plant-based diet, animal-based diet, planetary health, food production, food policy, Economic theory. Demography, HB1-3840 |
| الوصف: |
Evidence consistently suggests that plant-based diets promote human and planetary health. Reducing large-scale animal-based food production generates environmental benefits, as the entire livestock agriculture chain plays an outsized role in greenhouse gas emissions, land change and degradation, and scarcity-weighted water use. However, substituting animal products with their plant-based counterparts must come with consideration of the nutritional quality and resource usage of plant-based food production and processing operations. Several policy reforms have been implemented at the national, state, and municipal levels in the United States to support a transition toward more plant-based diets. Federal programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and the Dietary Guidelines for Americans generally promote the consumption of unprocessed plant-based foods but include little to no information on sustainability and the harmful environmental impact of animal-based foods. National policies are complemented by state efforts aimed at incentivizing produce purchased from local suppliers and encouraging resource-conserving agriculture. At the local level, public schools are implementing programs to promote plant-based protein on their menus, and urban gardens are sprouting across the country to increase access to organic farming. This mini-review examines these policy reforms and behavioral intervention strategies, based on the social-ecological model, and discuss their capacity and limitations to promote a shift toward sustainably produced plant-based diets in the United States. We conclude that transforming the food systems toward plant-based diets in the animal-centered United States requires multi-sector collaboration and context-specific policy solutions to address diet-related climate concerns without neglecting health, social, and financial constraints. |
| نوع الوثيقة: |
article |
| وصف الملف: |
electronic resource |
| اللغة: |
English |
| تدمد: |
2673-4524 |
| Relation: |
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsus.2022.841106/full; https://doaj.org/toc/2673-4524 |
| DOI: |
10.3389/frsus.2022.841106 |
| URL الوصول: |
https://doaj.org/article/b11476f41fa84aecac283f0ba2b790b1 |
| رقم الانضمام: |
edsdoj.b11476f41fa84aecac283f0ba2b790b1 |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
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