a b s t r a c t。<br>With 7.5% total nutritional value, pork is a staple food for many members of the Austrian population.<br>Among members of the general public, little is known about the environmental impacts "from farm to。<br>fork' in the production of pork. This paper identifies three main impact categories for the environmental。<br>profile of Austrian pork using the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) method. In a transparent and comprehensive。<br>manner, this LCA studied environmental impacts occurring throughout the production chain of。<br>pork, also including the transport and consumption stages. The results are expressed in terms of the。<br>global warming potential (GWP), soil acidification and eutrophication, specifically in CO2-equivalents,<br>SO2-equivalents and NO3-equivalents normalized to one kg of fresh Austrian pork (carcass weight) as the。<br>franklin at goodhorse ids ids ids unit. The main results of the study indicated that the environmental burden is primarily。<br>related to the farming stage: 92.3% of GWP, 98.4% of soil acidification and 95.4% of eutrophication. The。<br>processes taking place after the agriculture stage (i.e., during the slaughtering stage, retail market and。<br>consumption) play a minor role, except for the relative impact of eutrophication during the slaughtering。<br>stage. The transportation that took place between the different life cycle stages only marginally influenced。<br>the emissions analysed, with private transport from the retail market to the household contributing。<br>most of the emissions considered in this part of the life cycle. These results point to the farming。<br>stage as the main focus for future improvements. Due to its high contribution to the GWP, soil acidification。<br>and eutrophication potential, enhancing the efficiency and environmental protection measures。<br>implemented during the farming stage (or improving the choice of commodities used from feed production)<br>could generate the highest reductions in impacts on soil acidification, eutrophication and。<br>potentially on the global climate. ...
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