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1 Introduction
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... However, the same system also creates significant environmental, public health, and other costs that generally are not recognized and not accounted for in the retail price of food. These include greenhouse gas (GHG)
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... Rather, again, it was to lay the groundwork for future efforts. According to Anne Haddix, senior policy advisor at CDC's National Center for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, the hope is that a framework can be built that will help to identify novel strategies for dealing with food system-related public health problems, such as obesity, in ways that are not only healthful, but also environmentally sound and economically produc
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... It is anticipated that the workshop will identify key categories of externalities and unintended public health consequences associated with the production and consumption of meat, the extent of information available on each of the categories, appropriate metrics for quantification, limitations and knowledge gaps, as well as modeling and other analytical approaches needed to establish the value of these costs and benefits. The workshop would also provide the basis for a follow-on planning discus sion involving members of the IOM Food and Nutrition Board and NRC Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources and others to develop the scope and areas of expertise needed for a larger-scale, consensus study of the subject.
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... Several other issues were noted, including the broad range of external costs and benefits that were not included in the focus of the workshop; the lack of sufficient data; the importance of considering all stages of the food life cycle; the risks associated with simplifying assumptions about the effects; the inability of models to capture the heterogeneity among food production methods; the variability in the degree of certainty around the magnitude of some effects; and the numerous unanswered questions about the methodologies discussed for quantifying health, environmental, and other effects. Many of these overarching issues are discussed in greater detail in Chapter 7.
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... , "a product life cycle approach provides a useful framework for studying the links between societal needs, the natural and economic processes involved in meeting these needs, and the associated environmental consequences." Life cycle stages: For a food product, the following life cycle stages are consid ered in the context of economic, social, and environmental sustainability indica tors: the origin of the product; agricultural and production conditions; processing, packaging, and distribution of the product; preparation and consumption by the consumer; and the end-of-life of the product (Heller and Keoleian, 2003)
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... food system: A life cycle perspective. Agricultural Systems 76:1007-1041.


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