Urban consumption of ecosystems services such as food generates environmental impacts at different geographical scales. In the last few decades Tokyoites have shown an increasing appetite for meat. This study examines the environmental implications of Tokyo’s increasing meat consumption by analyzing how this trend has affected land use and cover change in areas near and far away. Historical dat...

Rising populations and incomes throughout the world have boosted meat demand by over 75% in the last 20years, intensifying pressures on production systems and the natural resources to which they are linked. As a growing proportion of global meat production is traded, the environmental impacts of production become increasingly separated from where the meat is consumed. In this paper, we quantify...

A Need for meat is rising day by and the production of poultry, cows, pigs fisheries reduced as there no good commercial production. Wider livestock becoming unavailable on a global scale in requisites welfare animals, ecological sustenance human health conditions. Choices cultured are being explored using innovative techniques like stem cells, Embryonic Stem Cells, Induced pluri potent cells [...

Background & Aims of the Study: One way to increasing shelf life of meat is the production of sausages along with additives. One of these additives contains nitrite that in an acceptance limit is not a threat for human health but if it's amount is higher than standard, it will react in the body with secondary amine and the result is the formation of...

godina XVII (2015.) ■ siječanj-veljača ■ broj 1 ■ MESO ■ 73 INTRODUCTION Meat production makes a signicant part of the total value of agricultural production in many countries, and given it is labour-intensive, meat production contributes to the increase in employment both on farms and in entire rural areas (Ažderski et al. 2011). Cattle rearing plays an important role in landscape conservatio...