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Table of Contents “...: Evolution and Consequences of Modern Carnivory; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Meat in Nutrition; Meat Eating and Health: Benefits and Concerns; Meat and its nutrients; Meat as a source of food energy; High-quality protein and human growth; Carnivory and civilizational diseases; Diseased meat; 2 Meat in Human Evolution; Hunting Wild Animals: Meat in Human Evolution; Primates and hominins; Meat consumption during the Paleolithic period; Extinction of the late Pleistocene megafauna; Hunting in different ecosystems; Wild meat in sedentary societies; Traditional Societies: Animals, Diets and LimitsDomestication of animals; Population densities and environmental imperatives; Long stagnation of typical meat intakes; Avoidances, taboos and proscriptions; Meat as a prestige food; 3 Meat in Modern Societies; Dietary Transition: Modernization of Tastes; Urbanization and industrialization; Long-distance meat trade; Meat in the Western dietary transition; Transitions in modernizing economies; Globalization of tastes; Output and Consumption: Modern Meat Chain; Changing life cycles; Slaughtering of animals; Processing meat; Consuming and wasting meatMaking sense of meat statistics; 4 What It Takes to Produce Meat; Modern Meat Production: Practices and Trends; Meat from pastures and mixed farming; Confined animal feeding; Animal feedstuffs; Productivity efficiencies and changes; Treatment of animals; Meat: An Environmentally Expensive Food; Animal densities and aggregate zoomass; Changing animal landscapes; Intensive production of feedstuffs; Water use and water pollution; Meat and the atmosphere; 5 Possible Futures; Toward Rational Meat Eating: Alternatives and Adjustments; Meatless diets; Meat substitutes and cultured meatProtein from other animal foodstuffs; Less meaty diets; A large potential for rational meat production; Prospects for Change; References; Index...”
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Table of Contents “...-Microplastics in inland small waterbodies -- Microplastics in the sediments: From rivers to lakes investigated in the biggest freshwater lake (Poyang Lake) basin and Yangtze River in China -- Sources of microplastic in the environment -- Interaction of microplastics and organic pollutants: quantification, environmental fates and ecological consequences -- Interaction of microplastics and heavy metals: toxicity, mechanisms and environmental implications -- Microplastics and their effects on soil function as a life-supporting system -- Occurrence and ecotoxicological effects of microplastics on aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems -- Microplastics in soil ecosystem: insight on its fate and impacts on soil quality -- The toxicity of (nano)microplastics on C. elegans and its mechanisms -- Uptake of microplastics and their effects on plants -- Biofilms of microplastics -- Tissue accumulation of microplastics and toxic effects: Widespread health risks of microplastics exposure -- Microplastics in food: health risks -- Microplastics in aquaculture systems and their transfer in the food chain -- Biodegradation of plastics in Tenebrio genus (mealworms) -- Plastics of the future? ...”
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Table of Contents “...Dr Severine van Bommel is an interdisciplinary social scientist working in the field of extension and rural development in agri-food systems and is currently leader of the Rural Development Group within the School of Agriculture and Food Sciences at University of Queensland. ...”
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Table of Contents “...The big lie : human restoration of nature / Erik Katz -- Ecological restoration and the culture of nature : a pragmatic perspective / Andrew Light -- The brave new world of animal biotechnology / Strachan Donnelley -- Ethics and genetically modified food / Gary Comstock -- What's wrong with functional foods? ...”
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Table of Contents “...Sustainable supply chain management -- 3. Practices for a greener and more sustainable supply chain -- 3.1 Design for sustainability -- 3.2 Eco-efficiency -- 3.3 Eco-design -- 3.4 Green purchasing -- 3.5 Reverse logistics -- 4. ...”
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