Environmental footprints of farmed chicken and salmon bridge the land and sea.
Kuempel CD, Frazier M, Verstaen J, Rayner PE, Blanchard JL, Cottrell RS, Froehlich HE, Gephart JA, Jacobsen NS, McIntyre PB, Metian M, Moran D, Nash KL, Többen J, Williams DR, Halpern BS.
Kuempel CD, et al.
Curr Biol. 2023 Mar 13;33(5):990-997.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.01.037. Epub 2023 Feb 13.
Curr Biol. 2023.
PMID: 36787746
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We found that farming broiler chickens disturbs 9 times more area than farming salmon (924,000 vs. 103,500 km(2)) but yields 55 times greater production. ...Surprisingly, the location of these pressures is similar (85.5% spatial overlap between chicken and salmon pr …
We found that farming broiler chickens disturbs 9 times more area than farming salmon (924,000 vs. 103,500 km(2)) but yields 55 times …