Environmental Impacts of the Brazilian Egg Industry: Life Cycle Assessment of the Battery Cage Production System
department or school: Science, Irving K. Barber Faculty of (Okanagan)
department or school: Non UBC
department or school: Biology, Department of (Okanagan)
department or school: Management, Faculty of (Okanagan)
data provider: DSpace
identifier citation: Animals 14 (6): 861 (2024)
creator: Maciel, Fabiane de Fátima
creator: Gates, Richard Stephen
creator: Tinôco, Ilda de Fátima Ferreira
creator: Pelletier, Nathan
creator: Ibarburu-Blanc, Maro A.
creator: Renato, Natalia dos Santos
creator: Sousa, Fernanda Campos de
creator: Andrade, Rafaella Resende
creator: Silva, Guilherme Moreira de Melo
creator: Becciolini, Valentina
issued: 2024-04-19T21:08:44Z
issued: 2024-03-11
description: Brazil stands as one of the world’s leading producers of animal protein, ranking sixth in global egg production. However, estimated growth in production demand, along with environmental impacts, represents a potential threat to the sustainability of the food system. Methods for assessing and quantifying the environmental impacts generated by Brazilian egg production remain scarce, lacking current reports on comparative effects or guiding standards. The objective of this study was to conduct a life cycle assessment from cradle to farm gate, adhering to ISO 14040 and 14044 standards, for the battery cage egg production systems and associated products in Brazil, with the aim of supporting and promoting sustainability improvements in the Brazilian egg industry. The entire life cycle modeling and process sustainability analysis were executed using the openLCA software, integrated with the Ecoinvent database. Emissions related to egg production yielded results of 65.06 kg SO2 eq., 27.74 kg N eq., 3086.71 kg CO2 eq., 75,152.66 CTUe, 2.75 × 10−5 CFC-11 eq., and 10,044.68 kg MJ eq. per ton of eggs produced. These findings can serve as comparative benchmarks for future studies and for analyzing data across different egg production systems in Brazil.
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note: Citation: Maciel, F.d.F.; Gates, R.S.;Tinôco, I.d.F.F.; Pelletier, N.;Ibarburu-Blanc, M.A.; Renato, N.d.S.;Sousa, F.C.d.; Andrade, R.R.; Silva,G.M.d.M.; Becciolini, V.Environmental Impacts of theBrazilian Egg Industry: Life CycleAssessment of the Battery CageProduction System. Animals 2024, 14,861. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14060861Academic Editor: Jiakui LiReceived: 1 February 2024Revised: 27 February 2024Accepted: 5 March 2024Published: 11 March 2024Copyright: © 2024 by the authors.Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.This article is an open access articledistributed under the terms andconditions of the Creative CommonsAttribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).animalsArticleEnvironmental Impacts of the Brazilian Egg Industry: Life CycleAssessment of the Battery Cage Production SystemFabiane de Fátima Maciel 1,* , Richard Stephen Gates 2,† , Ilda de Fátima Ferreira Tinôco 1 , Nathan Pelletier 3 ,Maro A. Ibarburu-Blanc 4 , Natalia dos Santos Renato 1 , Fernanda Campos de Sousa 1 ,Rafaella Resende Andrade 5 , Guilherme Moreira de Melo Silva 6 and Valentina Becciolini 71 Department of Agricultural Engineering, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa 36570-900, MG, Brazil;iftinoco@ufv.br (I.d.F.F.T.); natalia.renato@ufv.br (N.d.S.R.); fernanda.sousa@ufv.br (F.C.d.S.)2 Departments of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering and Animal Science, Iowa State University (ISU),Ames, IA 50011, USA; rsgates@iastate.edu3 Faculties of Science (Biology) and Management, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus,Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7, Canada; nathan.pelletier@ubc.ca4 Egg Industry Center, Iowa State University (ISU), Ames, IA 50011, USA; maro@iastate.edu5 Department of Biosystems Engineering, College of Agronomy, Federal University of Goiás,Goiânia 74690-900, GO, Brazil6 Grupo Mantiqueira Brasil, Primavera do Leste 78850-000, MT, Brazil;guilhermemoreira@mantiqueirabrasil.com.br7 Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry, University of …
has type: Article
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0441430
language: eng
peer review status: Reviewed
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
publisher DOI: 10.3390/ani14060861
rights: CC BY 4.0
rights URI: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
scholar level: Faculty
scholar level: Researcher
subject: agricultural sector
subject: egg production
subject: intensive system
subject: sustainability
subject: LCA
subject: LCI
subject: LCIA
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87902