US pork production more sustainable today: study
date:Jun 12, 2012
This becomes clear as the metrics most associated with sustainability are revealed from their 1959 baseline a 35 percent decrease in carbon footprint, a 41 percent reduction in water usage and a 78 percent drop in land needed to produce one lb. of pork.

Environmental researcher and former university professor Garth Boyd, Ph.D., headed up a team of university and industry scientists who conducted this study to investigate how industrys gains in production efficiency over the last 50 years have
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